Porn

Yes you read it correctly it is indeed PORN haha

Ok dun get me wrong I'm just overwhelmed cos I've been reading non-stop about child pornography in Japan since yesterday! My eyes are now rolling out of their sockets!

The interesting thing is the history of pornography in Japan! haha Started in the Edo period, pornography existed in wooden pictorials called Shunga. Basically during that period, Edo was consisted of mostly men, who travelled from all over Japan to work or to learn who to write and read etc. So all these men without the chance to meet the right gal in a male populated city, they turn to prostitution and PORN! haha so tats how porn become so popular! As you know Japan is the place where people visits public baths and parade with their genitalz hanging out totally no religious or social taboos attached to nudity. So porn is widely accepted into the mainstream! haha

Porn at that time, like now, had various genres of sexual acts, heterosexual, homosexual and even animism. And the people viewing porn come from everywhere, different age groups, genders, social classes etc. It was even rumoured that in laws give the wives shunga when they marry.

It was until the Meiji Restoration period that the Japanese government decided to practice censorship. This is because they are worried what the European countries would think of them. This persists till now, tats why when you watch jap porn now, unless it is meant to be circulated overseas, the genitals would be censored/mosaiced.

This is also the time where they start to use other forms of things to represent penetration. Like octapuses attacked (raping) a woman.

Right now, the west have a negative connotation of Japanese porn. Basically they think Japanese are sadistic people who enjoys weird stuff like rape and SM (sado-masochism). But this is not really true. Because of the language barrier, alot of the storylines for their porn are removed to avoid BORING the audience! So the only parts they show are sex, sex and more SEX! haha So thats what caused the misunderstanding...

Well after so much, I'm still not very sure what's up with people's liking for child porn! haha hmm but i suppose that is like asking why some people dun eat seafood... So yes after reading 125143million texts and articles on Japan and child pornography, I have a stand. I think the production, distribution and possession of child porn of any kind, anime, manga, games etc, should be banned all together. I mean it totally traumatises the children! It also endangers children's life! I agree that watching porn (any kind of porn) is a way for someone to release the urges/desires/needs. It acts as a healthy way of release so people wont really go COMMIT the act. But I also think there are some people who after watchin porn, would start having weird ideas on what they will do. I mean like some media theories we learnt, I agree that media do influence to a certain extent, our actions and the way we think. I mean, after watching too much bimbo shows, you will tend to suddenly speak and act like them. I dun mean like u become TOTALLY brainless or a zombie devoid of your own thoughts but it jus becomes part of you... the cultivation theory or something along those lines la... (Shit I need to study for my NM2101 real bad haha not even sure what I'm saying is correct or not... the only theory I know is the framing theory...)

Ohkay.. so as i was sayin, porn might act as an outlet for people but it might also lead to real physical sexual attacks on people. Furthermore, children are so young and vulnerable, the more we should protect them from such predators. Hence I agree tat Japan should take a stand and ban possession of all child pornographic material, even if the images are not of real children.

So yes fyi I'm so dead this week, I have this NM3210 Cybercrime project due next tues (I so dunno how to do this project!!! so stress! I feel like i'm writing a summary which is not the case for a research paper!!!), A Film and History assignment due this Fri 12noon and NM2216 and NM3210 tutorial assignments to do by fri as well... Not to mention I gotta do research or something for my NM2101 project as well... and my NM3223 exhibition this week!!! So NO TIME!!! I got an interview on sat morning, Jiamin's Bday on sat nite! (havent buy her present yet!!!) (thank god I said I'm quitting cheerleading if not it would be worst... totally cram to the max!)

Luckily I am going to watch the free Max Payne movie screening tonight with my banana!!! haha (Ok after all these porn things i just realised how inappropriate that sounds...) haha I think I wrote a mini essay already!

Oh haha I'm also now super into Christina Aguilera's Keep Getting Better song and Tokio Hotel's Don't Jump (an emo song! haha ok I've been listening to them for awhile already but I jus wanted to mention it cos they are not very mainstream now...)