Vigormortis said:
Hawki said:
Japanese seem to be phobic about violence, Westerners seem to be phobic about sex.
Funny ol world ain't it?
Mmm...except they censor the ever-loving hell out of their porn, blurring just about everything that might be mildly arousing.
It's just the genitals that are censored (and sometimes faces, but that's for different reasons). It's mostly a safeguard against a vaguely worded 1907 article against obscenity in the Japanese criminal code, one that rarely ever results in prosecution.
Outside of that, Japanese porn is no more prudish than its American equivalent. Arguably less, since mainstream Japanese AV with popular actresses generally includes a wider range of hardcore fetishes (and yes, that includes blackmail/rape fetish).