Childhood Sexuality

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Originally Posted by Eliza Hodgkins 1812

In Japanese animation, it's considered obscene to draw pubic hair. That is why all the naked animated women are hairless and girl-like.

They'll have rape machines and demons killing women with their sperm, but drawn pubic hair? SCANDALOUS!

I do love, and am baffled by, the great cultural divides.

It may be urban legend, but I understand the Japanese banning of pubic hair started with MacArthur and the post-WWII occupation. It just became a part of the culture.

In some cases, it's funny and creative (I have a manga that features several suggestive panels of a fish sticking his head into a conch shell until he spits), in others, it's annoying (why does Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain" need genital fogging on an otherwise beautiful DVD?).

How these attitudes of taste become acceptable and part of popular culture is indeed a facscinating question...