10-Year-Old Borrows Steamy Gay Sex Manga From Local Library

deadish

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I think we are having a case of "culture misunderstanding" here. LOL

Librarian sees book. "Oh it has 'cartoons' on it, it must be a children's book.". Little did he/she know, in Japan ...
 

deadish

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Meaning of Karma said:
So, why does anyone actually care?

A girl read some yaoi. What is the problem?
She is 10.

And I don't think libraries are allowed to stock pornographic content - they should at least put it in a "restricted" section.

I'm not going to debate whether we should let kids view porno, I have no opinion actually, but current social norms say no.
 

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All I can think is "Why the Hell doesn't my local library have steamy gay sex manga?" Sure they can have a wall full of books about planes that are so unread they actually have dust on them, but not a single steamy gay sex manga! Or steamy gay anything!

It's bullshit, is what it is.
 

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deadish said:
Meaning of Karma said:
So, why does anyone actually care?

A girl read some yaoi. What is the problem?
She is 10.

And I don't think libraries are allowed to stock pornographic content - they should at least put it in a "restricted" section.

I'm not going to debate whether we should let kids view porno, I have no opinion actually, but current social norms say no.
Yaoi does not mean porn, libraries do not stock porn. Lots of books, movies, and graphic novels have steamy sex that does not make them porn.
 

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"Adult Non-Fiction"? Really?
This is the part that actually bothers me. I would be totaly on the library's side if it wasn't for that small part. It is reasonable for library to have wide range of content. The way they classify it, on the other hand, it really questionable.

Reminds me of the late 90s and the beginning of 2000-2001. Back in here it was very common to see stuff like Pokemon and Sailor Moon placed right next to Jin-roh, Ninja Scroll and freakin Urotsukidoji CDs. It is not really suprising that a large number of people still consider anime to mostly consist of tentacle rape.
 

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Darknacht said:
Yaoi does not mean porn, libraries do not stock porn. Lots of books, movies, and graphic novels have steamy sex that does not make them porn.
It's hard to argue it isn't pretty damn close - depending on how explicit it is, it could be anything from ultra softcore to real hardcore.

It definitely isn't "art" - you will find very few people who would consider it as such.
 

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This article upsets me.

Mostly because I have no idea how to pronounce "yaoi".

I mean, three vowels and a "y"? Come on, what the hell?
I think it's pronounced "Yow-ee", but who the fuck knows, it's Japanese.
 

Piorn

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I certainly wouldn't borrow porn at a library. Who knows what person had it before...

Also, while I find it rather prude to "protect children from anything remotely sexual", there are things children just shouldn't have to see, even if they think they want to.
 

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"The genre, which is dominated by female authors, is known for romanticizing aggressive and sometimes non-consensual sex. It's sometimes gets a bit rapey, in other words."

Is that what women like? What the fuck.
I guess I've been doing it wrong.
 

Weaver

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Wait, libraries have porn in them?
I've had a very wrong opinion about libraries for the longest time.
 

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What annoys me the most about this is that "gay sex manga" was put in the "children section" simply because its manga. thats ridiculous.
 

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I bet the book was confusing to him a first, but never got the meaning of it. He is ten, can be gay and 10? I don't know if homosexuality begins that early.
 

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No one really cares whether a library stocks certain titles. Just that those titles shouldnt be stored where a child can get to it.....i thought that would be common sense? Accidents happen and someone could have mis filed it, knowing the age of people that work at libraries im sure they looked at the cover, thought "comic" and put it with the others.
 

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dyre said:
I'm a bit confused at the "hurrr, bad parenting" comments here. What did the guy do that's bad parenting? Were you all brought to libraries under parental escort as kids? I know when I was a kid, I always stopped at the library on the way home from junior high, along with a decent number of other kids (it was pretty much right next to the school).
I was brought to the public library under adult supervision at age 10. That kind of independence wasn't granted to me until age 12-13.

10 seems too early to me.
 

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-Dragmire- said:
dyre said:
I'm a bit confused at the "hurrr, bad parenting" comments here. What did the guy do that's bad parenting? Were you all brought to libraries under parental escort as kids? I know when I was a kid, I always stopped at the library on the way home from junior high, along with a decent number of other kids (it was pretty much right next to the school).
I was brought to the public library under adult supervision at age 10. That kind of independence wasn't granted to me until age 12-13.

10 seems too early to me.
It's probably more of a case-by-case thing. If you've got a responsible, intelligent kid or you happen to live next to a library, you're probably more likely to let him go alone than if you've got an idiot kid or if the library is halfway across town.

The story wouldn't really be different if the kid was 12 though. I think 11 was my first year in the library unsupervised, since that's when I started junior high school (I think).