Let’s talk about why “but the legal age in Japan is 13!” isn’t a valid excuse for sexualizing kids
The legal age in Japan ISN’T 13. In fact, if you bothered to read past the very first sentence when Googling this, you would see the following: “The federal age of consent in Japan is 13 years old under the Japanese Criminal Law Code. However, all municipalities and prefectures have their own particular laws such as Tokyo’s Youth Protection Law which prohibit sexual activity with youths who are under 18 years old in most circumstances.”
When you say this in your defense of sexualizing fictional children, you are either showing a blatant disregard for the safety of real children, or you’re admitting you’d happily sexualize real children. You’re telling me the laws dictate your morals, and thus you find it morally acceptable to sexualize children as young as 13.
Tumblr is a US-based site, with US-based laws. Simulated child pornography is against the Tumblr community guidelines, and if Yahoo’s purchase of the website hadn’t so deeply affected the quality of reporting blogs as nasty as those who sexualize kids, your blog would be gone!
Possibly the most glaring issue is how the legality and popularity of simulated child porn has affected the lives of real children living in Japan. Assault on schoolchildren, young girls especially is a epidemic, and though lawmakers there try to say there’s no certain correlation between loli/shota being legal and the high rates of child abuse, it’s undeniably there.
I’m on mobile, so if anyone would care to add sources or anything else, please do. Long story short, stop fucking sexualizing kids. There’s no excuse, full stop. I refuse to entertain any arguments in defense of sexualizing kids. Thanks, and bye.
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