Japanese prefectural authorities charged with censoring manga have been caught saying that titles in which women take the lead are “very dangerous” as they may “promote homosexual development amongst the youth.”
From the minutes of the 13 member “2nd Miyazaki Prefectural Commission for the Promotion of Healthy Youth Development,” a local government body charged with censoring ‘harmful literature’ (the ‘harmful literature’ such bodies concern themselves with is virtually always manga):
[The committee is discussing the wickedness of displaying “boys love” and “ladies comics” amongst ‘normal’ non-adult manga in local bookstore shelves]
Committee Member A:
In these books there is some violence and cruelty, and most have sexually provocative material.
In particular, many include scenes of women taking the lead ahead of men, and I think they’ll promote the prejudiced view that women want this.
And if you keep getting these depictions of women taking the lead, matters soon develop in a homosexual direction and it must become difficult to develop sexually in a normal fashion, mustn’t it?
This may not always be the case, but I think for the male conciousness they may end up thinking they cannot take the lead themselves, and so they tend to turn homosexual more often as a result.
I can’t help but think it is very dangerous to our young people, should they see this sort of material mixed in amongst normal books.
No objection to these sentiments were recorded in the committee minutes, although whether this reflects the consensus opinion of the committee or merely the Japanese custom of never arguing or telling the truth in public in case it might cause group discord is not clear.
The body’s suggestions for works to be designated as ‘urgently designated harmful entertainment’ were apparently accepted. The committee could not decide on any titles to recommend, as it was “difficult.”
Online, the remarks have attracted a storm of criticism, not least because it is readily apparent that the self-appointed prudes charged with censoring manga are absolutely crazy:
“These people do not in any way have the requisite intelligence to debate this sort of thing, they are just forcing their prejudices onto other people.”
“They just treat anything they don’t like as unnatural or unhealthy. Who knows what they think is natural…”
“These people are like the ‘Pornography and Sexual Violence Victims Association’ extremists behind the Tokyo manga ban, saying people who read manga are mentally defective.
Funnily enough, they never said anything about Ishihara’s bashing of homosexuals. I suppose the only human rights worth defending are the ones which benefit their interests.”
“I cannot believe this committee has managed to come to the conclusion that an ‘environment which promotes homosexuality’ (and there is no scientific consensus as to whether homosexuality is environmental or genetic or both) is ‘very dangerous.'”
“The only prejudice here is that displayed by the person in this committee! Please, give this nonsense a rest.”
“I hope this member will write a manga featuring what they regard as ‘normal sexual relations’…”
That is the dumbest thing I have heard (or read) in a while. They are born homosexual, not made, it’s already proven.
Lol “proven”. Fags multiply by preying on kids.
Don’t they realize that there are many dominant homosexuals too? They confuse dom/sub, sadist/masochist and active/passive with heterosexual/homosexual, somebody who likes to be dominated by women because of paraphilic desires doesn’t necessarily want to have sex with males..
Well, to be fair, this was actually the standard view of sexuality in most societies which is why pederasty, ie same-sex erotic contact between adult men and beardless youths was so widely practiced in most places of the world (Japan, China, Greece, Rome, Islamic Caliphates, Muscovite Russia, Celts, Vikings, Aztecs etc.), since a young male was still considered effeminate..
Ancient categories of sexual experience differed considerably from our own… the central distinction in sexual morality was the distinction between active and passive roles. The gender of the object… was not in itself morally problematic. Boys and women were very often treated interchangeably as objects of male desire. What was socially important was to penetrate rather than to be penetrated. Sex was understood fundamentally not as interaction, but as a doing of some thing to someone…
It was felt that a man who subjected himself to another in sexual affairs would do the same in other areas, being a follower rather than a leader, and allowing others to do his thinking or fighting for him. Thus, homosexual sex was not what was condemned, but rather the failure to stand for one’s self and make one’s own decisions, to fight one’s own fights.
Judaism and Western colonialism changed all this. It rendered the “gender of the object” very “morally problematic”; it declared that no one is “interchangeable” sexually. And as a result, it ensured that sex would in fact be “fundamentally interaction” and not simply “a doing of something to someone”.
To appreciate the extent of the revolution wrought by Judaism’s prohibiting homosexuality and demanding that all sexual interaction be male-female, it is first necessary to appreciate just how universally accepted, valued, and practiced homosexuality has been throughout the world.
The one continuous exception was Jewish civilization; and a thousand years later, Western Christian civilization (The Eastern/Russian Christian world was tolerant of homosexuality and pederasty prior to the westernization of Peter the Great, as was the Islamic world prior to colonialism). Other than the Jews, none of the antiqque civilizations prohibited homosexuality per se. It was Judaism alone that about 3000 years ago declared homosexuality wrong.
And it said so in the most powerful and unambiguous language it could: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is an abomination.” “And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed an abomination.” It is Judaism’s sexual morality, not homosexuality, that historically has been deviant. We do not find these prohibitions on same-sex erotic contact in Japanese history where Buddhist monastics were even encouraged to take younger male partners instead of women..
Needless to say these warrior virtues and prohibitions on male passivity that made societies survive in the pre-industrial age may have made sense in those times but there’s no reason to continue discriminating against effeminate passive men whether hetero, homo or bisexual.. letting hetero submissives watch femdom won’t make them attracted to handsome men in any case.. it just makes them attracted to dominatrixes.
Committee Member A:
*blahblahblah*
… I think I can see where he comes from, but I can only say it is flawed. Not every man treats woman as inferior: some men even find dominating woman attractive, ya know?
(maybe they can find those meek and weak woman annoying).
Committee Member A:
In these books there is some violence and cruelty, and most have sexually provocative material.
In particular, many include scenes of women taking the lead ahead of men, and I think they’ll promote the prejudiced view that women want this.
And if you keep getting these depictions of women taking the lead, matters soon develop in a homosexual direction and it must become difficult to develop sexually in a normal fashion, mustn’t it?
This may not always be the case, but I think for the male conciousness they may end up thinking they cannot take the lead themselves, and so they tend to turn homosexual more often as a result.
I can’t help but think it is very dangerous to our young people, should they see this sort of material mixed in amongst normal books.
^ … *facepalms*
Committee Member A, there exists something called “femdom”, and some men are into that, ya know? Never mind.
To be honest, I think I can see the reason why he mentions like that, but I do think this kind of reasoning is just… flawed. Just want to mention that not every man likes only gentle woman: Some men like dominating woman.
I do hope this turns Japanese boys gay.
Then the Japanese girls would turn to the gaijin in Japan :D….I’m right here girls…waiting for you 😀 hehe