The issue isn't really even that. If the age of consent were to be raised to 16 of 18 or whatever, there would still be no law preventing people from drawing underage anime characters in sexual positions because Japanese law and police view child pornography as pornography made with a child, not pornography depicting a child.
An imperfect analogy is that murder is already illegal, but nobody gets arrested for drawing a Manga where one character murders another. No real person has been harmed and therefore there has been no crime.
I'm not saying I support this, but that's how it apparently is.
But your honor, the age of consent in Japan is....
Edit: Pls. No fight. Was memeing the average :reddit-logo: take.
The issue isn't really even that. If the age of consent were to be raised to 16 of 18 or whatever, there would still be no law preventing people from drawing underage anime characters in sexual positions because Japanese law and police view child pornography as pornography made with a child, not pornography depicting a child.
An imperfect analogy is that murder is already illegal, but nobody gets arrested for drawing a Manga where one character murders another. No real person has been harmed and therefore there has been no crime.
I'm not saying I support this, but that's how it apparently is.
:speech-r: :epstein:
This reads like a pedophile’s monologue right before they’re shot and left in a ditch.
Pedophiles, famous for complaining about lack of laws preventing the depiction of fictional children in pornography.
Japan's national age of consent is 13, but every single city/prefecture/organizational whatsit has laws effectively raising it to 18.