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DOUJINSHI_SEX


                                             September 2, 2012
                                             October   1, 2012

  Reading a bunch of doujinshi pornographic
  manga, one of the striking things about
  them is the way they feint in one direction     "Doujinshi" essentially
  and then back-off: there's some apparently      means amateur manga,
  conscious effort to avoid "going too far".      though many seem
                                                  more like semi-pro.
      I don't know what vintage these
      are, but I suspect that the more
      recent work is more hardcore--       (But that rule of thumb
                                            has led me astray, before.)

      A simple example: in one, "Takeda
      Hiromitsu Tsundero", we're introduced
      to a young woman who is still a virgin,
      but is nevertheless already a serious
      pervert (as the story opens she's             This reminds me a bit
      masturbating with an anal dildo and a         of "Memoirs of a Beatnik":
      vibrating egg taped to her clit)
                                                     The well-informed virgin.
      She has an entirely plausible social
      problem: despite being fairly attractive          That's more
      she isn't sure what to do about "dating".         interesting to me
      She's afraid she'll either gross out some         than the usual
      normal fellow with her warped requests, or        "seduction of
      she'll get someone who's willing enough,          the innocent".
      but then tells stories behind her back.
                                                        Men in general seem
      That's actually an interesting conundrum.         remarkably timid--
      It's resolved with a chance encounter with        despite, or perhaps
      a different sort of perv-- there's this           because of the brash
      nerdy fellow who's been stalking her; and         macho male stereotype,
      one day, after-hours, she finds him               they have this weird
      masturbating over her desk. (Her first            fear of experienced
      impulse is to taste his semen.)                   women.

      The story then veers off into entirely              Japanese men seem
      conventional lines for this sort of                 particularly bad:
      manga: felatio, gigantic breasts,                   they're obsessed with
      dripping body fluids everywhere...  and             virgins, often
      unprotected straight intercourse                    very young virgins.
      (It's not unusual for female characters
      to be shouting "yes, get me pregnant"--                    AKB48
      there are a number of oddities about
      these things).

      She never does anything terribly unusual
      with this boy: her problem at the outset
      seems completely forgotten.

      The girl loses control to her passion
      immediately: she does not, for example,
      use this embarassing incident to blackmail
      him into being a secret sex-slave.

      The difference in their social status--
      pretty girl and despised nerd-- also
      completely fades.  There's no question
      like "I can't be seen in public with
      him--" (Let alone: "Breed with you?
      Get that thing out of me now!").

          The reason this is a good example
          of what I'm talking about is that     As a rule a mixed attitude
          it's so obvious: it introduces a      toward anal sex can be seen
          woman obsessed with sex acts that     through all of this genre (or
          never happen.                         this vintage of the genre?):
                                                in every drawing of a naked
                                                woman, her anus is prominently
                                                rendered.  Sometimes it's
                                                commented upon, and yet it's
                                                rarely touched.


          There are other examples that
          are just as obvious, but more
          complex to talk about.

          Consider "Camp Heaven", a story about a young man who
          becomes a teacher at a "Futanari Academy", where some
          medical staff have been conducting some astoundingly
          unethical experiments, raising a crop of human
          hermaphrodites, who are all conditioned as nyphomaniacs
          and (we learn ultimately) sold as sex slaves.

          The "futanari" fantasy is an entire sub-genre of
          it's own. It means "dual form": futanari have both
          vaginas and penises, but they always register as
          young-women-with-penises (rather than androgynous,
          or men-with-tits).

          This is clearly a fantasy for the
          straight-male-perv rather than for gay
          men: the cute-little-girl-with-penis
          is a way way of sanitizing the idea of
          playing with a penis (that is, someone          VILLAINOUS_MASK
          else's penis) for guys who aren't
          willing or able to deal with even the
          thought of bisexuality.

          The male main character quickly becomes an
          enthusiastic sexual partner of this trove
          of futanari, for him it's the Heaven of the
          title (rather than the nightmare it would
          reasonably have to be).

          But we never see this man
          do anything at all with
          their penises.                    Though we do see the
                                            futanari using each
          A few times, it's implied that    other's penises.
          this is going to happen, but
          this is always right at the
          close of a chapter and it's
          essentially played as a joke
          rather than something the
          audience would like to see.

                                                 This reminds of 70s era
                                                 "Penthouse", where the
             attaction and repulsion...          letters column regularly
                                                 featured bisexual orgies,
             the fascinating and                 but the photo sections
             the forbidden...                    were women and women-only.

                                                   (They dropped the
                                                   bisexual orgies
                                                   in the post-AIDS
                                                   Eighties.)

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