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[–]mattdent54 2199ポイント2200ポイント  (432子コメント)

When will Japan realize how retarded it is to censor genitals in porn movies? No other country does this. It's about as backwards as it gets.

[–]FloppyG 3386ポイント3387ポイント  (49子コメント)

I think that's great. Because it's censored, I can watch it with my kids.

[–]well3rdaccounthere 674ポイント675ポイント  (31子コメント)

Father of the year.

[–]clubba [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Also appropriate for viewing at work.

[–]InsaneTurtle [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

"Why don't they just show Ekans face dad? Is that why Misty looks afraid?"

[–]pokemanz43 239ポイント240ポイント  (6子コメント)

Japan has politicians just like every other country, and none of them want to see "voted for cocks and cunts to be shown to your children" in an attack ad next election season.

[–]amazing_ape [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

exactly. any pol who supports this will be criticized as "sukebe". it's a very stupid outdated law but offers little upside for the pol who abolishes.

[–]need_cake 350ポイント351ポイント  (188子コメント)

To be fair, Japan's neighbors have banned pornography (South Korea and China*).

So I think people in Japan are glad that they can get what the can. I also heard a argument from a friend that he doesn't mind ("as you can imagine it your self then, and don't have to someone else's dick").

*Its legal to watch porn in China, but illegal to make it available to others or produce it.

[–]Andyl66 157ポイント158ポイント  (72子コメント)

I think pretty much all of Asia is like that. Thailand, which is known as being one of the world's sex capitals, has extremely strict pornography laws, even soft porn is illegal there, as are sex toys... Weird.

[–]LordBiscuits 179ポイント180ポイント  (55子コメント)

So buying a girl for the night is fine, but watching one on a screen do the same thing is illegal?

That makes perfect sense!

[–]open_door_policy 80ポイント81ポイント  (21子コメント)

Much like in the US paying people to have sex in front of you is completely legal, but paying them to have sex with you is not.

[–]Oomeegoolies 38ポイント39ポイント  (15子コメント)

Unless you film it.

[–]BigFriendlyTroll 37ポイント38ポイント  (14子コメント)

I've heard the person paying can't be the one having sex. You've got to have a friend pay someone to fuck you, and then you pay someone to fuck your friend.

[–]joeymcflow 37ポイント38ポイント  (6子コメント)

Solution: Pay a hobo 20 bucks to hang outside incase the cops come around. If they do, tell them he hired you to fuck this chick.

Bam! Your move law enforcement!

[–]Sword_n_board 19ポイント20ポイント  (3子コメント)

As soon as one party pays the other for sex, it's prostitution, even if you film it. The way that porn producers get around this is by having a third party pay the two(or more) parties for "acting" parts where they have sex.

[–]BigFriendlyTroll [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Right, so I hire my friend and some attractive young lady to act in the movie I am producing. Then later on my friend happens to have an acting job open, and he thinks I might be perfect for the role.

[–]blasterhimen 20ポイント21ポイント  (1子コメント)

So buying a girl for the night for sex is illegal, but putting a camera in front of her and doing the same thing with her and all of a sudden it's protected speech? That makes perfect sense!

[–]Hamartithia_ 213ポイント214ポイント  (42子コメント)

So China has a lower female to male ration and they can't have porno? Fuck.

[–]zyc621 132ポイント133ポイント  (23子コメント)

As a native Chinese, I have to say everybody watch porn in China... Illegal but no one really cares...

[–]Hamartithia_ 95ポイント96ポイント  (11子コメント)

I was hoping that was the answer. If it wasn't I was going to smuggle porn into there like some XXX Pablo Escobar.

[–]Daxx22 74ポイント75ポイント  (2子コメント)

China... Illegal but no one really cares...

That's pretty much China's Operating Motto.

[–]avatar_of_internet 52ポイント53ポイント  (15子コメント)

From what I've gathered in my interactions with Chinese exchange students (and boy, do I know a lot of Chinese exchange students), one of the first things a lot of them do is look up pornography. Not necessarily because they want it but because they want to know what the fuss is about.

[–]SandCatEarlobe 39ポイント40ポイント  (3子コメント)

That's not exactly exclusive to students from Chinese exchange students. When I was at university, seven of the ten most visited sites in my college in Week 0 were porn sites - trailing behind Youtube, Facebook, and the university's own page.

[–]dude_smell_my_finger 40ポイント41ポイント  (2子コメント)

That's not exactly exclusive to students. in my house, seven of the ten most visited websites are porn sites.

[–]sprucenoose 12ポイント13ポイント  (0子コメント)

But it's almost as easy to watch porn in China as in other countries. The government blocks a few foreign porn sites, but there are countless more that are not blocked and more are created every day. You can also buy DVD's on the street just about anywhere too.

Plus, pretty much every college age student in China knows how to use a VPN and can get around the restrictions to watch all the Google-owned sites, Facebook, etc., plus all blocked porn sites.

[–]Jahoota 26ポイント27ポイント  (14子コメント)

How dare you take that guy's dick out of my imagination!?

[–]G8kpr 14ポイント15ポイント  (13子コメント)

Does Japan blur out his O-face?

[–]Strindberg 29ポイント30ポイント  (6子コメント)

In Japan it's < > face

[–]G8kpr 25ポイント26ポイント  (4子コメント)

I can see that face and almost hear the EEEEeeEEEEEeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Of his female partner.

[–]joshuajargon 25ポイント26ポイント  (40子コメント)

What, when I lived in South Korea 10 years ago there was porn all over the place. Are you sure it is banned?

[–]seacen 34ポイント35ポイント  (37子コメント)

Illegal to produce, thus why Korean porn is not a thing.

[–]TheHanyo 53ポイント54ポイント  (29子コメント)

This actually does a disservice to changing the beauty standards around the world. If you force Koreans to jerk off to non-Koreans, what the hell does that do to their psyches?

[–]batlock666 1190ポイント1191ポイント  (61子コメント)

I'll let you in on a little secret: the genitals are not censored. That's actually how they look. Why do you think the women in Japanese porn squeal like that? Because those blocky penises hurt on penetration.

[–]megacookie 322ポイント323ポイント  (39子コメント)

But their vaginas are blocky too. Gosh either they fit just right like Lego or the friction must be intense!

[–]Lethik 156ポイント157ポイント  (27子コメント)

It's like figuring out sex is playing with one of those shape blocks.

[–]trainercatlady 24ポイント25ポイント  (0子コメント)

It'd be like sticking a mace into a sock full of legos

[–]Pugwash79 74ポイント75ポイント  (2子コメント)

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "cock blocking".

[–]TheHonourableCurls 54ポイント55ポイント  (3子コメント)

I can confirm. I live in Japan and vaginas here are sideways and blocky.

[–]porcazozza 25ポイント26ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is the weirdest thing I've read all day

[–]vegidio [スコア非表示]  (13子コメント)

Well, as a foreigner I find equally retarded how American TVs censor mild nudity.

I mean, movie showing someone killing another person with a chainsaw is fine, but showing nipples?! HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! WE CAN'T SHOW THAT!

[–]TossUAround 67ポイント68ポイント  (21子コメント)

Many attribute the creativity and uniqueness of Japanese pornography to the fact that genitals are censored. Other major porn distributors can get away with just doing close-up genital shots for 20 minutes and call it a day. The Japanese had to get pretty inventive with themes and camera angles.

Honestly too I find Japanese porn pretty irresistible and if they did start removing the censoring on genitals I'd probably never leave my bedroom.

[–]Phugu 122ポイント123ポイント  (14子コメント)

Or you know, nipples or swearwords during normal tv shows..

[–]MianaQ 31ポイント32ポイント  (8子コメント)

Too many wrinkles on that part, Japanese assumes people don't want to see it?

Edit: This is what i found from Wiki:

In the 1970s and 1980s, the strongest prohibition was against showing pubic hair or adult genitalia. Imported magazines would have the pubic hair scratched out, and even the most explicit videos could not portray it.

[–]Ii_kimochi 33ポイント34ポイント  (5子コメント)

Imported magazines still have the genitals scratched out.

It must be the funniest job I can think of: working for the government, every day your job is to go through stacks and stacks of nudie mags and scratch out the genitalia by hand. Just don't scratch it too hard because you'll rip the page!

Why do this? Because the government says seeing naughty bits is bad. But what about the guy/girl whose job it is?

[–]Euphorium 10ポイント11ポイント  (0子コメント)

If they've got a problem with pubic hair, they're in the wrong goddamn country.

[–]pale_of_frost 24ポイント25ポイント  (4子コメント)

I don't get how a tiny black strip over the base of the foreskin is meant to "censor" anything.

[–]blacksheep998 38ポイント39ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's not. It's just adhering to the letter of the law. The law says genitals have to have censoring, it doesn't specify exactly how well they need to be censored.

[–]Aeashml 231ポイント232ポイント  (94子コメント)

Can anyone knowledgeable on the subject explain why this is only a recent thing?

[–]Cynykl 187ポイント188ポイント  (36子コメント)

Because for a long time what defined child was up to individual prefectures (think something like state or county governance). Each prefecture could have different laws regarding marriageable age, age of consent etc.

[–]pwny_booboo 28ポイント29ポイント  (35子コメント)

Interesting, I just thought the whole country never had an age of consent.

[–]sinn_tan 90ポイント91ポイント  (34子コメント)

The national AoC is something like 14. But the prefectures bumped it up to 18. The national one therefore wasn't adjusted because there wasn't a need.

[–]JiDongbutUK 245ポイント246ポイント  (43子コメント)

They don't exactly adhere to the theory of 'liking child pornography causes a market' they rather see it as a way for people to not go after the children if they have access to the porn, whether real life abuse or animated

[–]yarmonger 16ポイント17ポイント  (3子コメント)

Japan with adult content available in open almost everywhere, has one of the smallest reported rape rates in the world.

Correlation doesn't mean causation, though.

[–]Stalked_Like_Corn 88ポイント89ポイント  (35子コメント)

Any studies that show either way? I mean, both make sense to me and both seem right but, can they both be right?

[–]Methrim 45ポイント46ポイント  (7子コメント)

I don't remember which thread but someone in r/anime pointed out its because of the 2020 Olympics to be held in Japan. Japan wants to improve their image.

[–]ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp 533ポイント534ポイント  (48子コメント)

However, manga, animation and computer graphics are not subject to punishment under the revised law in light of freedom of expression.

Interesting revision.

Unlike the majority of the world, it seems Japan has come to the realization that human rights shouldn't apply to imaginary things.

[–]Beretot [スコア非表示]  (19子コメント)

Well, from a logical standpoint, I can see where they are coming from. Not all pedophiles rape children, and as long as no one gets hurt (i.e. they can direct their fetishes elsewhere) I don't see why ban it.

We want to protect the children. If an adult likes naked children... not a whole not that can be done about it. If he understands what a heinous crime it is to turn that fantasy into reality, all is good.

[–]EastenNinja [スコア非表示]  (3子コメント)

and to be fair, there are countless western TV shows depicting people under the age of 18 having sex

western society has no grounds for criticising this

[–]pm--me--puppies [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Or you could be australia, and effectively ban small-chested models, because 'think of the children'!

[–]lonelyboyonreddit 262ポイント263ポイント  (25子コメント)

However, manga, animation and computer graphics are not subject to punishment under the revised law in light of freedom of expression.

All the NEETs are sheathing their katanas reading this comment.

[–]scaly-manfish 745ポイント746ポイント  (601子コメント)

Does that include hentai child pornography?

Edit: actually read it; nope.

[–]ringkun 681ポイント682ポイント  (311子コメント)

However, manga, animation and computer graphics are not subject to punishment under the revised law in light of freedom of expression.

[–]IWannaFuckEllenPage 983ポイント984ポイント  (302子コメント)

Good.

[–]Diablo-Intercept 281ポイント282ポイント  (88子コメント)

Ellen Page is pretty attractive

[–]jakoietsh 283ポイント284ポイント  (37子コメント)

She's also 28, so it wouldn't be child porn.

[–]mallsanta 177ポイント178ポイント  (24子コメント)

WHAT?

[–]mrgonzalez 60ポイント61ポイント  (1子コメント)

I actually thought she was older than that. She looks young but she looks like an older person that looks young.

That might make sense to someone else.

[–]so_numb 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yep. Work with someone like that. Looks like an older person that could be mistaken for a younger person.

[–]weltallic 391ポイント392ポイント  (205子コメント)

No. Drawings are not actual child porn. They are drawings.

... except in Australia. In Australia, drawings are LEGALLY child porn.

Mock the law all you want; it's still the law. Saying "But it's a farcical law. How can lines on paper be child exploitation?" will not help you as you stand in front of the judge.

[–]MozzarellaSquirrel 135ポイント136ポイント  (47子コメント)

you can get arrested in canada as well

[–]pipboy_warrior 29ポイント30ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yep, I remember when some guy traveled to Canada and got nailed for having hentai in his suitcase. Neil Gaiman wrote a good blog about it.

[–]exitpursuedbybear 117ポイント118ポイント  (22子コメント)

Australia also has a law about porn actresses with A cups being simulated cp.

[–]hydrogenc4r 62ポイント63ポイント  (13子コメント)

Waaaaaaaat? No way

[–]eshayadlayz 70ポイント71ポイント  (10子コメント)

Also no "school girl" themed porno, because of the same reason.

[–]blanketswithsmallpox [スコア非表示]  (6子コメント)

Oh those poor fucks. And here I thought Australia was a nice place. That means they can't even look at /r/gonewild with all the pleated skirts over there.

That's right Aussies. Clear your browsing history because they're coming for you.

[–]Schootingstarr 37ポイント38ポイント  (13子コメント)

in germany, child porn is everything that depicts underage sex. even if you put a 50 year old meth whore in school uniform in front of the camera and have her say she's 16. technically that's illegal, too

[–]WannabeAHobo 12ポイント13ポイント  (11子コメント)

Didn't Germany recently ban any pictures at all featuring unclothed children, even harmless, non-sexual ones, just so they could charge that politician that they were hoping to bust on child porn charges but it turned out that all he had was some nudist pics of boys playing on the beach or something, so they quickly made those illegal and arrested him?

That was my understanding from the German papers, but my German isn't great! I just remember it because it seemed to be a really big case in the German media when I first went there.

[–]HappyHippoCarnivore [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I'm on mobile, so to keep it short: The politician you are talking about was informed about the investigation by other politicians and one day before the police raid, he "lost" his laptop in the train, hence the little findings.

What they found was sexually suggestive but borderline legal. There was some evidence that suggested he also saw c. pornography from his office.

Now here comes the really bad part: He bought the pictures from a guy in Canada (for money), who also made c. pornography.

There's no reason to feel sorry for that guy, really. Especially considering he got a 9000 Euro deal without being charged.

[–]Miraten 38ポイント39ポイント  (5子コメント)

I'll just go draw some kids with dick in their ears and throw them down your chimney and you'll suddenly be possessing yourself some child porns

[–]iasll 42ポイント43ポイント  (32子コメント)

And the US and the UK and South Africa and Sweden and Canada and..........

[–]hegemonistic 18ポイント19ポイント  (27子コメント)

Depends on the state in the US. There's a graph out there somewhere (probably on Wikipedia) but I'm too lazy to find it.

[–]PantsuWitches 9ポイント10ポイント  (6子コメント)

The graph shows more states where it's supposedly illegal to look at lolicon than there have actually been convictions in the US for lolicon. The total number of convictions in the US for lolicon in the last fifty years is, like, maybe two. So take the graph with a grain of salt.

[–]Byzantine279 34ポイント35ポイント  (14子コメント)

Nope. Supreme Court ruling declared that drawings, text, etc, are legal because there is no child to be harmed in the making.

Edit: I am NOT posting a source because that is not going in my search history. No.

[–]iasll 23ポイント24ポイント  (8子コメント)

The Supreme Court threw out the CPPA of 1996 on more subtle grounds than just "there is no child to be harmed in the making".

In response, Congress passed the PROTECT Act of 2003, one piece of which basically is the same law but with an obscenity requirement tacked on.

[–]ryanx27 9ポイント10ポイント  (4子コメント)

Correct. There have been several successful prosecutions for hentai/cartoons under the PROTECT Act.

[–]poiumty 115ポイント116ポイント  (38子コメント)

it's still the law.

The law is not a moral or universal absolute - it can be criticized, scrutinized and changed.

And as a person who is not a resident of australia, fuck all of your laws.

[–]BurntJoint 98ポイント99ポイント  (73子コメント)

Do you know what it also doesnt include? Child "idols".

Now im not talking about the music idols, im talking about child models who start as young as 6 and perform in DVD's and photoshoots, usually wearing swimsuits and other "loli" costumes all while the camera is not so discreetly aimed toward areas they shouldn't.

This video of a group called LadyBaby was posted here a few days ago and after searching for more information about them i discovered that the black haired girl is one the top "idols" who has been doing this for at least 5 years. A google search should be safe enough if you want to see what im talking about, her name is Rei Kuromiya [Legal, but definitely NSFW though].

There are several boards on a forum i use dedicated to dozens of new torrents every week for this kind of shit and frankly its pretty disgusting.


Since people seem to be commenting not actually knowing what im talking about or think this is similar to some pagent work, the following link is a 90 second preview of one of these DVDs featuring the girl in the video above. It is almost certainly legal wherever you are, but it is completely filled with images of a minor "modelling".

Click at your own risk[NSFW]

[–]shankos 129ポイント130ポイント  (13子コメント)

[Legal, but definitely NSFW though]

No thanks

[–]TwiZtah 23ポイント24ポイント  (9子コメント)

I...what in the fuck kind of metal is that even?

[–]GregTheMad 34ポイント35ポイント  (7子コメント)

Yeah, because child beauty pageant aren't legal in the USA. Oh, wait, they are.

[–]improbable_humanoid 66ポイント67ポイント  (24子コメント)

On another note apparently they may or may not decide to prosecute people for (non-sexual) naked pictures of their kids, which is ridiculous. At least the freedom of expression of manga artists was rightfully protected.

[–]Nisas 60ポイント61ポイント  (15子コメント)

Hopefully they don't go the route of america and start arresting kids for having naked pictures of themselves.

[–]WalterWhiteRabbit 454ポイント455ポイント  (146子コメント)

Must be difficult when half the population looks 13.

[–]ringkun 549ポイント550ポイント  (127子コメント)

[–]aperson1729 228ポイント229ポイント  (50子コメント)

[–]Karwano 118ポイント119ポイント  (29子コメント)

How the fuck is she 9?

[–]Nukleon 120ポイント121ポイント  (15子コメント)

It's from a satirical show called Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan. They take the piss on everything.

[–]i_did_not_enjoy_that 46ポイント47ポイント  (1子コメント)

She's an angel and this show is pretty much just full of these tropes, possibly ironically; I can never tell.

[–]BioGenx2b 46ポイント47ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's entirely satirical. Dokuro-chan was never meant to be taken seriously.

[–]Coke_Attack 69ポイント70ポイント  (4子コメント)

Welcome to asian cartoons where every character looks the same and their age is pulled out of the ass, not drawn.

[–]IWannaFuckEllenPage 277ポイント278ポイント  (59子コメント)

Don't forget the ones who are actually 3000 year old witches from outer space but transformed into a little girl's body.

Edit: also, that picture reminds me how much better retro anime is. The characters actually look like their fucking age!

[–]jpatton89 222ポイント223ポイント  (27子コメント)

That's exactly the legal defense that will be used by the first Japanese man who goes to court for possession of CP.

"She's actually a 3000 year old alien witch disguised as a 12 year old girl."

[–]MoarVespenegas 91ポイント92ポイント  (18子コメント)

That's a hard line to pull off in real life.

[–]IGotAKnife 45ポイント46ポイント  (11子コメント)

Reminds me one this manga Black Jack where this twin grows in the other girls body and they have to be removed. it's just a bundle of organs including a brain and they are technically 18+ years old. The doctor puts the organs together in but they have been living the sign of a large tumor so it pretty much only fit in a little girls body...

[–]Tenshik 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Awesome. See it's arbitrary shit that just makes the whole drawn cp completely inane. Like where do you draw the line? Does it have to say explicitly their age? Or is it just a 'child like body' because fucking railgun whatever has a 30ish year old that looks 8. And is that somehow correlated to actual pornography where they have 18 year old girls that look 16, or even 14 if they're flat? Some women look ridiculously young. Give me a flat chested 5'4" woman with good genetics and good fucking luck guessing the age.

[–]Mayus 26ポイント27ポイント  (4子コメント)

so you're teling me when you were 18 you looked like a strongman?

[–]ringkun 18ポイント19ポイント  (3子コメント)

I don't think he had seen jjba 15 year old jonathan

[–]Gelsamel 61ポイント62ポイント  (4子コメント)

Edit: also, that picture reminds me how much better retro anime is. The characters actually look like their fucking age!

You have to cherry pick for that to be true. Many cutsey retro anime where the characters don't look their age, and heaps of modern ones where they do.

[–]XillaKato 5ポイント6ポイント  (8子コメント)

Dance in the Vampire Bund. Has the body of a 9 year loli to hide her true form (an adult woman with big ass titties) from the older clan leaders so they can't fuck her.

[–]TheDarkTrumpet 32ポイント33ポイント  (12子コメント)

Apparently they also tried to go against lolicon/anime: http://theday.com/nationworld/20150711/in-japan-it-soon-will-be-illegal-to-possess-child-porn-x2014-almost has an article on it as well.

I'm very much against laws that are for victimless crimes. In the case of any art - drawing, painting, etc - the fact that lolicon exists is not an issue. Unfortunately, people get too bent out of shape about it being 'ewww' instead of concentrating on laws that actually protect people.

Very sore subject with me. There was a dude who got arrested for importing a comic that depicted a child, and it was apparently loli-based. Anyways, they basically 'threw the book' at him, and I seriously wish he would have fought the law. Victimless laws shouldn't be there to protect someone from going 'ew' at what they see.

[–]Biggieholla 443ポイント444ポイント  (87子コメント)

Japan is as backwards as it is forward

[–]JehuLove 648ポイント649ポイント  (63子コメント)

I do not understand why you're being downvoted. I've lived here for the better part of a decade, and you're dead right. It's a weird ass time warp where I'm simultaneously living in 1950 and 2030. I can pay at a vending machine with my phone, but I have coworkers who have never used the Internet or email. Women work at companies building lifelike robots, but are expected to quit if they get married. This place is fuckin' bizarre.

[–]geft 178ポイント179ポイント  (11子コメント)

Their technology progresses at breakneck speed but culturally, they are extremely resistant to change. Tradition and etiquette are extremely important in Japan, and from what I remember they're very conservative. Maybe that's changing for the younger generation.

[–]its_real_I_swear 54ポイント55ポイント  (6子コメント)

Not in everyday life. Fax machines are widely used in Japan. My workplace sends a weekly report to the town hall. A man comes with a special box, and a floppy disk is carefully handed over to him.

[–]geft [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

Fax machines are pretty prevalent in Asia. Most older folks don't like to deal with technology (reading e-mails, opening pdf, digital signatures, etc.) so sending something via fax is seen as more convenient to them. I have no idea who uses floppies but I know they're still in use because I sell them.

[–]sidevotefairy 41ポイント42ポイント  (26子コメント)

wait, whaaat? co workers that have never used the internet or email? really?

are they mostly older folks?

[–]nyanpi 68ポイント69ポイント  (22子コメント)

Not necessarily. A lot of people here do not have Internet at home. Sure, they look at things on their phone, but they don't really "use" the Internet so much. I mean, my roommate's brother is in his 30s and he makes her order things off Amazon for him because he "can't figure out how to use it". They don't even have a computer at home.

They still don't teach computers at all in school as far as I know. Maybe at some schools, but none of the ones where anyone I know works at. No typing classes, no basic computer courses, nothing. It's no wonder people here are not so computer-savvy.

[–]sidevotefairy 33ポイント34ポイント  (12子コメント)

Wow, I'm shocked by this. I always think of Japan as tech-savvy, but I guess my impressions of Japan are maybe just Tokyo.

Thanks for the reply :)

[–]garmonboziamilkshake 282ポイント283ポイント  (33子コメント)

After the Diet amended the law on punishment of activities relating to child prostitution and child pornography, the revised law took effect on July 15 last year. But a one-year moratorium was put in place in order to give individuals who had such images time to dispose of them.

It's like a library amnesty day, no harm no foul. But for fucking child porn.

[–]Washuchan73 378ポイント379ポイント  (22子コメント)

it is pretty standard for new laws that make something illegal to have a grace period so that people in possession of that thing can legally dispose of it.

It gets around a lot of the problems ex post facto laws face.

[–]HowdyDoodlyDoo 53ポイント54ポイント  (6子コメント)

They can sometimes even do it for things which are illegal. For example, Manchester police had amnesty for people handing in guns.

[–]mydearwatson616 28ポイント29ポイント  (3子コメント)

Well it's not like they can make something illegal and immediately arrest people for it. Imagine if we made all porn illegal one day. Wouldn't you want a little leeway time to go through all your hard drives and throw them into a furnace? I would.

[–]iMark70 41ポイント42ポイント  (3子コメント)

Wait a tic. These poor bastards could watch child porn but not see a vagina?!? That's a little fucked.

[–]infaereld[S] 69ポイント70ポイント  (14子コメント)

OK, so yeah, I screwed the title up.

And yes, it seems it has been legal up until now.