June 9th, 2005 -- by Bacchus
Purely Symbolic Censorship
This detail from the Japanese manga The Red Flower That Blooms Wetly has got to be the single most gratuitously pointless example of symbolic censorship ever seen. I guess the narrow diagonal white line “conceals” the very tip of the cartoon clitoris, but the rest of the image is so revealing it’s very hard to see what the concealment accomplishes. A bizarre artifact of the Japanese legal system, we must presume:
Image via J-List.
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Oh my, that’s…wonderful. I’ve never really understood that whole censorship in hentai thing, it seems to varry in how much and what is actually censored.
haha. Right, because putting that white stripe over the clitoris makes it totally non-sexual. Too funny!
Yeah, they cant show a womant clit or a man’s penis-head ridge, if he has the skin taken off of the snake, that is. :D after that, pretty much everything else if fair go.
oh! of course… it’s covering the clitoris.
i get it now.
now you say that, the picture finally makes sense.
Are you sure that line is for “censorship” rather than being, say, a depiction of a toothpick or some similar object that is supposed to actually be there?
Japanese censorship laws are pretty specific from what I’ve been told, and they have no choice but to do these kinds of things (blurring the genitals of hardcore is another common result).
Wasn’t even worth the (e-)ink!