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Now that we got those checkpoints and round-ups out of the way, let's get down to more specific business. I particularly wanted to post this story right after today's ero-news round-up, just to show how ridiculous this whole idea of banning eroge, ero-animes and adult magazines with underaged girls really is. But first, the facts:
"The Japanese Diet is set to hear a petition for legislation which would effectively ban the vast majority of eroge and adult anime (...), as the petitioning party is particularly het up about portrayals of minority age females."

Sooo... underaged boys are ok, but not lolis? Blasphemy! Not that they have much of a chance with this outrageous petition of theirs (more outrageous than the eroge themselves, ironically). But the story doesn't end here, because Japan's Democratic Party has gone one step further. They have proposed a dystopian regime to ban all websites containing "strikingly sexually stimulating information", information promoting extreme cruelty, suicide and crime. Christ, why don't they just ban the whole internets!

Of course, this whole charade is mostly just a political propaganda, and as such it was bound to give rise to fervent protests. Which it did, as hordes of angry lolicons are now going Shion-mode in their online rantings. But from all the arguments one could come up with, against such anti-constitutional measures, nothing beats the simple statistics put together by Sankaku Complex. In short, here's the deal:
- 300 cases of child abuse a year in Japan - population: 127 million
- 7,500 similar cases in England - population: 50 million
- 50,000 similar cases in the United States - population: 300 million

I rest my case. We've said it before, and we'll say it again: a flat chest is fine, too!
anonymouswrote on Nov 9, 2008 at 20:26
In all fairness, the respective systems put in place to detect cases of child abuse are different in Japan then they are in UK or the USA.

You also need to understand what constitutes abuse in Japan and what constitutes abuse there is vastly different,in terms both sociological and legal.
Ahem.wrote on Nov 12, 2008 at 00:17
Going by those statistics, let's do the math.

0.00016% of the American population has committed child abuse.

0.00015% of the English population has committed child abuse.

Meanwhile, Japan clocks in at approximately 3%. A small number? Sure it is. A larger number than the other two countries? Yep. A country that likely sells far more lolicon-related products than the U.S. or England? Gee, I wonder...

Numbers don't mean anything if you don't look at them. So, what was the case you were trying to make....?
Stokkywrote on Nov 12, 2008 at 01:56
You do realize that your math fails terribly, right?

% = (pedos/population)*100

So it's more like 0.0150% for England, 0.0166% for America, and barely 0.0002% for Japan. But like the first comment points out, Japan is probably more indulgent when it comes to defining child abuse.
anonymouswrote on May 16, 2009 at 18:53
Leaving aside the issue that that person can't do percentages, you should not even need to do the maths to see that 300 people out of 127 million is a smaller percentage than 7,500 out of 50 million. The absolute number is lower and the total population is larger.

To actually have 3% of Japan's population committing these crimes you would need: almost 4 million people doing it - not 300.

Which raises an interesting issue "Ahem" - when you thought (for some strange reason - let's just call it complete mathematical ignorance) that the numbers of offences in Japan were high, you used that to support your case about what material is allowed there. Now you know that the numbers actually go against your case what will you do? Change your mind and argue the opposite case? Admit that the numbers now at least count against your case at least as strongly as you thought they counted for it? Of course not - you'll declare the numbers irrelevant and move onto the next argument, because the tone of your comment makes it obvious.
anonymouswrote on Jul 13, 2009 at 22:51
They did it on the calculator, and then missed the ^-6 (or e-6) that the calculator had to put at the end in order to compensate for the dramatically tiny number Japan put out. It's an easy thing to miss, but still a huge flaw in logic, considering the whole absolute vs total population spiel given above will display the difference at a glance.
genisiewrote on Jan 25, 2011 at 00:35
really thats what u have to say? man your all dumb really i have talked to a few of my female friends in japan and they would not say anything you morons are saying they love how the games and everything to do with such topics help with there questions on sex, relationships and other aspects in love that they are afraid to ask others the real question should be "do we have the right to take away a learning experiance that many have found more usefull then life itself?" ask yourself that and consider how most females feel before jumping to your own thoughts before saying stuipid things btw i am american 24 male and if i knew about the games and such i wouldent be such a chicken when it came to love unlike my female friends who embrace it
Stokkywrote on Jan 25, 2011 at 10:57
That's an interesting point, perhaps the first time I heard it. If some Japanese actually rely on such (by-now-heavily-regulated) games / anime / manga for their sexual education, that says a lot about the education they receive at home and school - as in lack of. In which case that's where they should look for answers to whatever imaginary problems they have, not ban the one source of education that some kids have.

It's the exact same issue as Westerners' outrage to violent games and such: l2educate your kid, ffs! That's how you stop school shootings, not by taking their violent games away, and then sending them to kill some generic "arabs".
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