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Why Is Porn Censored In Japan
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Well, if you spend considerable time browsing the internet, that’s probably because you watch porn. And if this is the case, then you must have occasionally come across Japanese porn. Also, you must surely know that Japanese porn is the fucking bombshell they not only mix up genres of extreme BDSM and role play but also they gave us a brand new category called tentacles and generally, the Japanese venture into territories few have dared to go as far as adult entertainment is concerned.
However, one thing that particularly stands out from Japanese porn for anyone with a pair of functioning eyes; the genitals are censored (dicks and pussies are covered by a mosaic) Some think that hiding of the actor’s baby-making bits is defeating the purpose of porn, to begin with, but it is advisable to think of the differences in culture which further manifests in law before castigating the Japanese as self-righteous.
Which brings us to the million-dollar question: why is Japanese porn censored? What is the whole point of censoring porn anyway? After some research, I came back with the following answers for you:
They say the law is the law, and Article 175 of the Japanese Penal Code prohibits the sharing of indecent materials. Now that sounds like a strange law considering the Japanese have one of the biggest porn industries, but Japanese artists of the adult entertainment variety have found an easy way to circumvent this law- blurring out the genitals. Up until the 1990s, showing of pubic hair was actually considered obscene, and if you look at some of the older porn from Japan, you will notice that the whole lower torso was blurred. There was even a rumor going around that some actors used to fake sex!
As of 5 years ago, the Japanese government was willing to take porn that was deemed to show ‘too much’ off the shelves. In 2004, Article 175 was used for the first time in 20 years against a manga artiste called Suwa Yuuji, who was convicted for distributing “indecent and explicit” material through his art. He pleaded guilty and was subsequently fined ¥500,000. While he took his appeal to Japan’s highest court, arguing that his art was not as explicit as the ones that were freely accessible from the internet, the Supreme Court of Japan didn’t buy his argument and actually tripled his fine to ¥ 1.5 million. While no other convictions have been made since Japanese porn producers resort to blurring genitals to avoid falling foul of the law.
They say a country’s laws reflect their morality, but it’s necessary to note that morality itself is subject to change throughout the years. Before the current porn policy came into effect, Japan had some of the most progressive attitudes towards sex. Well, it still does consider that it has some of the most liberal stances on pornography compared to other countries in East Asia where it is illegal to distribute our own porn. But the stance was even more progressive before they came into contact with the western world in the 19th century.
The arrival of westerners on the island brought with it the Western version of morality. It began to take root in the upper echelons of Japanese society as the government did its best to show the western world that Japan was an equally civilized society. Traditional Japanese practices that were deemed normal by the locals but appeared strange to foreigners were outlawed, the biggest casualty being shunga, a traditional art form that depicted largely heterosexual, ethnic Japanese couples with enlarged genitals engaging in intercourse. Shunga may have been outlawed for over 300 years now, but its legacy is still seen in the racist manga comics today, while Japan’s biggest export as far as adult entertainment is concerned- tentacles- can trace its roots to shunga. See? Japanese smut was not always a pixilated mess.
If the display of genitals is considered obscene and indecent, then why aren’t breasts censored in Japanese porn? I mean, anyone who considers genitals an obscenity would surely have a problem with a full display of nipples, right? Well, not really.
Japan has an interesting relationship with breasts. The #FreeTheNipple may not have engulfed the country as a movement, but you may find your answer as to why breasts are not forbidden in the country from observing the roots of Japanese porn.
As seen in shunga, there is hardly any difference between male and female chests regarding how they are depicted in the art. Actually, the only way to differentiate between the genders is through their dressing or genitals. Unlike modern art, which eroticizes big breasts, the shunga art is evidence that the Japanese were not as obsessed with the female pair. Actually, it was common to see Japanese women walking topless. Nudity was also not sneered at, and it was not uncommon to see nude members of the opposite sex at communal baths. As you can see, the Japs were not always opposed to the idea of nudity and full exposure of genitals. A combination of events brought the change of heart along the way.
Anyway, do pass by our Asian porn sites category and see much more of what Japan has to offer the adult entertainment world, including plenty of uncensored porn. Still, it’s crazy to think that a country with such a rich sexual history and a penchant for the more imaginative forms of erotic art can find something as straightforward as the human reproductive organs as obscene and indecent.
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Every adult video that is released in Japan has the genital censored, i think it is because of a law or something but why does such a law exists in the first place
During the Meiji Restoration era they censored everything, from porn to speaking out against the Emperor, etc. And ever since then, no one has wanted to run on the platform of "LET'S REMOVE PORN CENSORS" and come across like a pervert, basically.
Yup. The smart thing to do would be to ignore this law into obscurity, but not only do the police enforce it, the censorship has become a part of the culture as well.
Allow me to re-post my r/askhistorians post on the topic:
More accurately, Japanese censorship of erotic images got its start in the 1907 revision of the Criminal Code that forbade the depiction of "obscene" ( waisetsu 猥褻) images with article 175, which a few people have already mentioned. That code was left nearly untouched by the Occupation and is still in effect.
This code and its subsequent revisions were put out shortly after the late 19th century Civilization and Enlightenment ( bunmei kaika 文明開化) movement of wholesale social and governmental westernization. As such, most of this criminal code represented an attempt to match Japan's legal codes to those of Western countries. While I have never seen any specific quote from a government official about including the obscenity article, we can probably say that the obscenity article resulted from the same general impetus toward westernization that inspired the rest of the criminal code. Very simply, Western countries had a problem with sexual images at the time, while they were fairly common in Japan - many famous artists published books of erotica to pay the bills, for example. That erotica is generally called shunga (春画 lit. "pictures of spring").
As you can see, even at the time of the obscenity law's introduction, there was a mismatch between the cultural acceptance of--and demand for--pornography, and the government-imposed ban on obscene materials. This mismatch between social mores and the strict law is arguably responsible for the apparent contradiction between Japan's legal requirement that genitals be censored and the thriving Japanese pornography industry.
Compounding the problem, Article 175 does not define obscenity. It reads,
Article 175. (Distribution of Obscene Objects) A person who distributes, sells or displays in public an obscene document, drawing or other objects shall be punished by imprisonment with work for not more than 2 years, a fine of not more than 2,500,000 yen or a petty fine. The same shall apply to a person who possesses the same for the purpose of sale.
The only changes that have been made since 1907 are updates of the imprisonment and fines spelled out within it. Combined with the lack of a widespread cultural feeling about what is or is not obscene in terms of sex, this has led to a protracted argument about what counts as obscene in the courts.
Most of the famous cases involving erotica have dealt with works that deal with nudity as art, rather than simply pornography. Amanda Dobbins's "Obscenity In Japan: Moral Guidance Without Legal Guidance" details the history of these cases. Prior to 1957, the law was mostly used by police to simply stop publication of materials they found to be obscene, but the supreme court finally heard a case involving the famous and conspicuously Western Lady Chatterly's Lover in 1957. In that decision, the Majority opinion was that materials that aroused sexual desire must be obscene because of a proposed universal feeling of shame about sex - indeed, they held this shame to be so universal that society's standards should not play into the question of obscenity. Justices Mano and Kobayashi vigorously dissented from the majority opinion, citing Japan's long history of being sexually open in art, literature and public festivals as evidence that Japanese did not feel such shame and no such universal moral standard existed. Despite Mano's historical accuracy, that was not enough to sway the rest of the court. Subsequent cases have further narrowed the definitions, though.
The rather pointless mosaic censorship seen in Japanese pornography today stems from a series of decisions involving the so-called "Pink" film genre of soft-core erotic films that exploded in Japan in the '60s. The screening of the 1962 film The Market of the Flesh was stopped on the grounds that it violated the obscenity law, but it was never prosecuted, and it was allowed to be re-released with the obscene parts removed. This basically set the legal precedent that censorship was enough to avoid prosecution. Several other movies have subsequently pushed the limits, getting to the point where some art films can even display nudity without censorship.
The censorship itself is all done by movie studios (EIRIN governs the approval process for cinema), artists, and pornographers themselves rather than by the government. In practice, while there are some moral crusaders who would oppose the complete repeal of the law, anything that puts up enough effort at censoring that the police don't decide to prosecute it is free to go. As such, pornographers have continually pushed the limits, and slowly moved to ever less meaningful censorship.
As a short aside, Hokusai's Tako to Ama, commonly mistranslated as "The Dream of the Fisherman's wife" (really it just means "The Shell-diver and the Octopus), is often held up as a shunga example that "Japan has always liked tentacle porn." That's not really true. It is just one image that depicts sex with an octopus, although there are a few other examples. Such images were far from common, and the one in question was likely meant to depict a fairy tale. In that regard it is comparable to the many famous European depictions of Zeus in the form of a swan copulating with a human woman in "Leda and the Swan."
TL;DR - It is a mismatch between social standards and old, imported, legal standards, translated through the relatively stodgy lens of 60+ years of legal interpretation. Generally, legal change in Japan is a slow and unwieldy process, in which the Supreme court almost never strikes down laws. Moreover, I'm not sure there is all that much political pressure to change the law, especially seeing as how desultory its enforcement is. Igarashi Megumi's (Rokudenashiko's) current challenge over her depictions of female genitalia may prove to be an interesting test case, though the conclusion to that will probably be years in coming.
EDIT: Finally, there is the problem of being "known for" in the original question . Audiences like hearing about how strange foreigners are. In popular media, in the news, in jokes--people latch on to stereotype about a given culture, often times regardless of whether or not that stereotype is actually representative. Take all the media coverage of bizarre "new trends" in China or Japan (e.g. bagel heads) that turn out to have only happened once, or not to have really happened at all. Thus, to a large extent, the Japanese media that one sees outside of Japan suffers from selection bias towards things that shock and titilate. The internet takes niche practices, or even satirical jokes, and uncritically turns them into the international representatives of "Japan," despite the fact that they are strange to most Japanese people as well. On the internet, "Japan" is known for extreme pornography, but the most Japanese people don't even know about that pornography, and certainly wouldn't think it was representative.
EDIT 3: borrowed /u/asiaexpert 's old habit of bolding the important parts.
Thanks for taking the time to type this all out. Very informative.
To be fair, there actually IS a lot of weird (to American tastes) stuff in Japan that you see just sort of walking around.
For example, hundreds of grown adults waiting to see one of those mascot characters like they're a rock star, or ads on the subway that are deliberately provocative. Or a bunny hotel I saw near Sensoji, or multiple cat cafes. Or an egg bar.
And I won't include deliberately weird stuff designed to cater to American tourists, like Robot Restaurant.
I still think that this law is pretty stupid to begin with. Like I’m pretty sure every adult has seen genitals before and shouldn’t even be censored
Here's a video that's about the origin of censorship and tentacle porn and is short and informative.
That was interesting but then why would just a vagina or just a penis be censored? He was saying that it would only be censored if a penis was entering a vagina (I feel ridiculous writing this), but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Its not the porn japanese genitals really are blurry like that.
Because vaginas and wieners are gross.
And dangerous. Countless is the number of youths corrupted by the sight of uncensored genitalia.
Interestingly enough, it's not even illegal to show genitals in porn. Force of habit, I'd say.
I read somewhere before that it was cheaper to get the AV actresses to do censored porn and people still bought it so there was no point paying them extra to do it uncensored.
Because the emperior is an ass and leg man.
Because they’re prudes. Japan is notoriously conservative unless it comes to anime.
There seems to be censorship for all kinds of imagery here. Just try watching Game of Thrones on Star Channel. Pixels, pixels, everywhere! Not just on the sexy parts - certain types of blood, guts and gore, too.
So this is a complicated question, but this article does a reasonable job of explaining why porn is censored in Japan in a general sense, as well as the specifics of the "mosaic" blurring: http://eiga9.altervista.org/articulos/obscenity.html
In short, it's because Article 175 of the Japanese Penal Code, known as the obscenity law, restricts depictions of obscenity, but is vaguely worded enough that - over time - the conception of what constitutes "obscenity" has been progressively eroded, but not enough to completely allow for uncensored pornography. I would highly recommend reading that article for a full context!
Doesn't stop me nutting to Anri Okita and Hitomi tanaka
Why are swear words censored in the US?
I personally don't mind it. Pixelated genitals are almost as good as non-pixelated ones. And with the amount of hardcore porn that comes out of Japan, the censorship is really just a minor inconvenience.
I think the OP question has been answered in length. I don't believe that Japan is in any hurry to change their censorship laws. It all relates back to the don't rock the boat mantra the people follow.
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