The Mercator projection is a hell of a drug. All of us were raised with distorted ideas about how big a lot of places are, partly because of how 99% of maps people see are drawn.
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Yeah, its a lot of nothing… so is much of the US.
I still want to go and find opals and Stromatolite fossils.
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Australia banned Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho, if I remember correctly – or tried, to, or something like that. It is a pretty heinously graphic book, but as an American, the idea of actually prohibiting it seemed a bit absurd to me.
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here’s a transcript. Haven’t found the video yet,
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/10/abpu.01.html
BOURDAIN: Notice, by the way, the distinguished owner and her complete lack of shock or offense at the graphic, frankly horrifying images of rape, violation, and murder spread casually across the table for all to see.
Japanese manga, ones that everyone reads on the subway home even, well, they’re different.
The big breakthrough was you couldn’t draw penises, you couldn’t draw specifically orifices. You couldn’t actually show humans penetrating each other.
MAEDA: In Japan.
BOURDAIN: Right.
MAEDA: It was a big no-no at that time. So I invented tentacles
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Tentacle sex actually has quite a bit of history in Japan…
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Ouch – they have beaks! 
I recently purchased a book of Hokusai’s 36 Images of Mount Fuji, and I also got Hiroshige’s 100 Views of Edo. I am admittedly tempted to add Kinoe no Komatsu to the collection… 
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If memory serves, it’s always been available in Australia, but it has to be sold shrink wrapped due to its classification. Stores have been raided by the police for selling unwrapped versions.
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The concern here isn’t limited to hentai, it is any cartoon that depicts minors.
Hentai is the largest and easiest target to go after.
There was a case about 10 years ago where an Australian judge ruled that a Simpsons ripoff that showed the kids engaging in sexual acts was child pornography.
Given that ruling there has been a huge crackdown on this stuff.
So it’s not as simple as “Australians are racist” however true that might be, it’s more a case of the conservative influence in Australia has a tendency to make these huge knee jerk reactions when it comes to anything to do with pedophilia except the catholic church.
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That’s right, I specifically do remember hearing about the shrink wrap. In an era of not many actual bookstores, I wonder what the equivalent would be…
So why go after an entire Japanese genre, instead of instances within it that depict what amounts to pedophilia?
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So, sarcasm intended, you have huge brush, is it easier to paint the whole fence, or just a few slats?
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IIRC it was post WWII when the US had a hand in creating Japan’s constitution.
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You’ll find plenty of literary tentacle smut here. Enjoy, or whatever.
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why does literotica break things into multiple chunks, instead of presenting the chaptter all in one go? Perhhaps with an autoscroll function for hands free reeading?
That’s been Laurel and Manu’s publishing style this century. I suspect it makes stealing stories more difficult. Much is illicitly grabbed from LIT by scoundrels to sell on Amazon, a common complaint in the Author’s Forum. Broken into 3750-word pages, 'bots may only grab the first page, not everything.
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If that was the real target they would have targeted all pedophilic content coming from Japan as well, since there’s several mainstream titles like Made in Abyss who are extremely questionable at times and others like Dance in the Vampire Bund that cross way over questionable.
It’s clearly a separate issue spurred by racism/xenophobia and not to shield anyone.
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The use of tentacles in Japanese pornography goes all the way back to the animism in Shintoism. Probably the most famous example (though far from the only or the first) in the West is The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife. So while like mosaics it may have been used as a work-around to laws prohibiting the depiction of human genitalia or public hair following the Westernization of Japan, the origin of the motif is much older.
Doh, ninja’d by @anon77190095. 
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Not quite. The law prohibiting the depiction of genitalia and pubic hair dates from 1907, pre-WWII but well into the Westernization of Japan.
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The background text was translated by this guy…
he claims that it’s his only pre internet work to make it into this internet-centric cuiture-- most of his other translations remain obscure.
LARGE OCTOPUS: My wish comes true at last, this day of days; finally I have you in my grasp! Your “bobo” is ripe and full, how wonderful! Superior to all others! To suck and suck and suck some more. After we do it masterfully, I’ll guide you to the Dragon Palace of the Sea God and envelop you. “Zuu sufu sufu chyu chyu chyu tsu zuu fufufuuu…” more of tthe conversation here
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