Call me irresponsible...but I didn't know it wasn't 18. (Does that make me a fake fan?!?)18 is the new legal age now in japan i wonder what kinda effect this will have on the AV industry Thoughts?
20What was it before now?
Its about the new "age of adulthood" and not about the age of consent<- which is stupid since both should be correlated but pedos rule the world.Age of consent in Japan is 13 years old. Most people didn't know that. I didn't know that until I stumbled upon Nobita's (or someone else) youtube vid about odd Japanese laws.Japan Age of Consent & Statutory Rape Laws
www.ageofconsent.net
I think there will be even more porn and i will probably consume it.(18+ of course)Pretty sure it doesn't change anything the age of consent =/= legal age to produce porn. Hell JAV is barely legal by being 'not' porn thru censorship.
I'm not aware of applicable "international law", what's gonna happen? FBI or NYPD will parachute down with AR-15 blazing? Or better, Shria police will patrol Akiba back-alleys?Wasn't the JAV requirement already that they were 18+ (rather than legally adults in japan) to comply with international law? Japan can change the age of adulthood to 25 or 15, it won't matter when it comes to "porn".
The dutch teen thing ended a good while ago. It's 18+.Holland legal porn age is 16, there is a major porn brand called something-something-16. So even within EU there's no common standard. (at least when I lived there 20 years ago).
Bad news for innocent, naiive girls.
As mentioned above, the minimum age for porn performers has been 18 for quite a while. The age of consent still varies greatly though across the world.I'm not aware of applicable "international law", what's gonna happen? FBI or NYPD will parachute down with AR-15 blazing? Or better, Shria police will patrol Akiba back-alleys?
Holland legal porn age is 16, there is a major porn brand called something-something-16. So even within EU there's no common standard. (at least when I lived there 20 years ago).
There were still "underage" (15-17 year olds) nudes in german youth magazine "Bravo" in the 90s and early 00s. Though, it depends on the definition of "porn" in each country. Not every piece of nudity is automatically porn. That's probably why it was still published.As mentioned above, the minimum age for porn performers has been 18 for quite a while. The age of consent still varies greatly though across the world.
Back in the 1970's young girls could legally appear naked in magazines and movies in most of the European countries. The mainstram movie "Walkabout" starred a 16 year old Jenny Agutter who was completely naked for an extended scene. Again the minimum age for this varied from country to country. A lot of Dutch porn magazines of the 1970's featured very young naked girls, some only 13 years old.
The worst offenders though were the Danish publishers of "Color Climax", not only did they feature young girls in sex acts, they actively encouraged their readership to take pornographic pictures with their children and to send them in for publication. Their magazines had to be censored depending on which country they were distributed in. The Danish distributions being of course uncensored.
I think it was late 70's or early 80's when Europe woke up to what it as doing and all the western European countries, including Denmark and Holland, quickly changed their laws to protect children from appearing in porn. Some countries however were much slower on banning of underage nudity. I think it my have been early 1980's before UK mainstream newspapers stopped printing topless pictures of 16 and 17 year old models and I believe it was later still in countries like Germany.