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ELI5: Why does Japan have such strange censorship laws in comparison to the US?
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Japan, beneath its super high-technology and anime glitz, is fundamentally still a pretty socially conservative society. Women are definitely not equal to men and are far behind men in money and political power compared to other developed countries. It's also much harder to be LGBT in Japan than in any other highly developed country. Women are "not supposed" to have sexual desires (or at least express them) and a lot of Japanese porn is based around women being degraded or experiencing pain.

They never really had a feminist movement like we did in the West, or at least, it's been a lot more limited. There is not much of an idea of sexuality being an area of free expression or personal liberty. Even art that is sexual can be censored (see the artist recently who 3-D printed her va jay jay). Conservative politicians still control Japan and in their view the sight of naked genitals corrupts the youth and leads to sexual perversion. Ironically, the inability to depict real human sexual organs has led to hentai and its many subcategories (tentacle porn) which are to most people much more perverted than the 'ole P&V.