MANGA is OBSCENE

I was just looking at a manga group when suddenly I had to rub my eyes in amazement….MAN facing 20 years imprisonment for possession of Manga deemed as OBSCENE material!!!!!!!!!!

I read the article and was still GOBSMACKED so I typed it in the old Google and my eyes did not deceive me. Apparently he ordered some MANGA from Japan and had his post randomly inspected by the authorities who deemed his choice of reading material OBSCENE. Consequently, they allegedly followed him home and found that he had quite a collection of MANGA and subsequently charged with possessing obscene material. The material in question supposedly contained lolicon and yaio images….wtf are those you might ask…hmmmm….well I had to educate myself and discovered that Lolicon focuses on the Lolita complex…. whereas yaoi features male homosexual romance. This guy is from Iowa in the United States and you might be thinking hasn’t he got the right to read whatever he likes….surely freedom of press…hmmmmm….WRONG cuz the laws concerning obscenity override the free speech laws.

It gets worse…..yes…..WORSE…. if he is found guilty he will be deemed a sex offender. Now, I understand trying to protect children from abuse BUT surely condemning ART to stringent laws is going to prove TROUBLESOME to everyone. Even though the case is in United States and it concerns a Japanese art form nevertheless the verdict in this case will have far reaching implications. I watch anime and read MANGA everyday online….walk with ME…if… I don’t know…. say my computer was ever checked by the police for whatever reason. Does this mean I could also stand accused of possessing obscene material and quite frankly be labelled a paedo. After typing this word paedo it really does sound absurd and am sure this guy would've thought the same thing… if someone had said by the way if you order those MANGA from Japan you might as well sign the sex offenders list…GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

I am really interested in the outcome of this case....art is being tried in a court of law and a jury is to decide if the MANGA this guy purchased is obscene material. Well, I haven't seen the MANGA this guy decided to buy BUT to be honest I don't care. When it comes to ART everyone has their own personal taste....does this mean that we will have to censor material from the past….portraits from years ago that grace the walls of museums and art galleries all over the world will these need to be reassessed to see if they contain OBSCENE material. Will old movies such as Bugsy Malone portraying children as adults now be BANNED….will music videos and TV commercials showing children in what could appear sexually provocative material be labelled OBSCENE. I doubt I understand what pissing paedo consider erotic behaviour from prepubescent children because am NOT a pissing paedo and CHILDREN and SEX don’t mix together in my world. I really would like to see the MANGA this guy was reading to determine how this conclusion was made.
But…this truly is a cloudy area and I think yes we must protect the children….BUT we must also protect the ART.