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>>838901 There's an idea for a case in the next Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) game: Defending the hentai mangaka for publishing uncensored material. Though I guess it would go against the trend of every god damned trial being a murder case.
Though yeah, I agree with pretty much everything you've said. Japan seems to be riddled with double-standards and following everything to a point of technicality. They can publish every manner of "obscene" porn (including what amounts to child porn in every other 1st world country - though I've heard rumours they plan to crack down on loli material, it's so deeply entrenched as a fairly widespread fetish, it would take some serious action to get rid of it) as they like, but it all slides as long as you cover up those genitals.
Soaplands and massage parlours exist because "technically" sex is only vaginal penetration, so anything else is "technically" not prostitution.
As for how far artists take their censorship, yeah, it's definitely cultural. I've heard people argue plenty of times that it's a "good" thing and part of what generates such a wide range of fetishes or other things to focus on than just the penetration in sex (situational, emotional, facial expressions, etc). There's enough material out there that censors with as little as millimeter-thick bars covering the glans and clitoris (though I guess American equivalent would be the stars/whatever covering nipples, because really, that's the only offending part) to show that it seems to be more the intention of censorship that matters, whereas flaunting lack of censorship would draw far more attention.
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