Osaka To Enact Anti-BL Legislation
April 5th, 2010 | Published in BL Manga and Doujinshi | 2 Comments
According to Sankaku Complex, Osaka is following Tokyo’s lead in creating legislation to eliminate lolicon from print, movies, television, and games by seeking to enact its own law to restrict the creation and distribution of boys love material (link NSFW!).
Based on speculation from Sankaku Complex — speculation which I share with what I little know, this new proposal appears to be a knee-jerk reaction to Tokyo’s own steps to ban lolicon, and has been put together with very little thought much like the Philippines’ own anti-hentai law.
Even if the law was designed to protect the virtues of young Osakan boys, the rationale behind this government-sanctioned control of boys love manga, anime, drama CDs, and doujinshi is very strange — considering that the material they seek to regulate is created mostly by women for women and not the aforementioned young Osakan boys.
To its target market, BL is no different from racy romance novels that include taboo themes such as vampirism, necrophilia, and bestiality (lol Twilight reference :D); the argument that it is morally reprehensible (“it turns boys gay”) clearly does not hold a whole lot of water. It also makes a scapegoat out of BL — making it the key influence for “deviant behavior” instead of other factors such as upbringing, socialization, and personality.
Thanks to Mia of World3 for the heads-up.
April 6th, 2010at 10:47(#)
Gay boys will be gay, regardless of exposure to BL. (No, I haven’t clicked your link though. Dun want to shock the menfolk in the office)
April 6th, 2010at 10:51(#)
exactly! sexual orientation is the result of a complex web of influences which cannot and should not be attributed to a single factor. this line of reasoning is as flawed as the one that blames violent video games for the rise of criminality in modern society >.>