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Been :thonk: about a comment made yesterday on a shitpost I made. Hentai is the least exploitative genre of porn in the world. (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Perhaps some of the only porn someone can consume ethically. I guess there's an argument to be made about poorly paid animators drawing smut in animation workhouses, but it feels like most of the western world, when it comes to hentai, consumes rule 34 of franchise characters from media. Beat my brain up as I may, I can't see anything wrong in that and would much rather a fictional character be debased than an actual human for money.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (13 children)

What about the reference material?

Also, I challenge everyone with a libido to try writing your own erotica.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (12 children)

So long as it's nothing breaking any laws.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (11 children)

My point is that the reference material used in the production of hentai is very commonly "real life" porn. Doesn't it follow from the premise of porn films being unethical, that works whose production made use of such films are also unethical by extent?

In other words, for that hentai to be as stimulating as it was, the artist(s) behind it probably had to diligently study dozens of different videos of real-world humans fucking for pay. Is watching one hentai then ethically equivalent to watching twenty-four porn films, because those films — rather, the actors and camera and light and sound technicians etc — all contributed to the hentai's final value, be it directly, semi-directly, or indirectly?

...I mean, I don't know, that feels like it leads into discussions about copyright and derivative works under capitalism in general, but I don't really have the brains to poke holes in my own logic right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My point is that the reference material used in the production of hentai is very commonly "real life" porn.

Couldn't the writers just have sex (with other people)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Whether the artists could make their own reference material is a different matter from whether they do

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