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the only reason this is news is because someone actually got charged with it
My memory is hazy on it but I remember a hexbear poster talking about how U.S. soldiers stationed in Japan started the whole lolicon craze in their pop culture. Am I talking out my ass?
I remember bringing up "Misora Hibari and the Girl Star in Postwar Japanese Cinema” by Deborah Shamoon in a thread a long time ago
Edited to include link to the full paper - not the abstract only.
It was probably you and where I was thinking on it, so it was a product of the postwar reconstruction?
I'm not a super smarty academic who has studied this, so take my opinion with a pound of salt.
I'd say many aspects of the lolicon craze in Japan have roots in American culture that rubbed off during the post-war occupation. People see sexualization of children in Japanese media and tend to have this orientalist "oh, Japan 
" reaction to it while ignoring all the gross parts of their western cultures that also sexualize children.
Another day, another rapist... 
All those countries that have been so eager for America to open bases on their soil: here is your future.
Hey that's not fair.
They also do a lot of drunk driving
We had a burger warship in Stockholm a few years back, and they immediately got caught for prostitution/sexual trafficking.
Don't worry tho, liberals assured me there won't be any American bases or nuclear weapons on Swedish soil. Of course, they're not explicitly forbidden to store nuclear material in Sweden, they even fought to keep the option open, and they have "unlimited unregulated access" to 17 bases here. But it's totally not the same bro, it's different, bro. Trust me, bro.
I think I remember that. Around 2014 IIRC. There was a huge bulletin sent out to the whole DoD that they were going to actually be enforcing the anti-prostitution regulations. I was on a ship at the time, and an uncomfortably high number of guys expressed disappointment.
Again?
Im glad they actually managed to charge one, but it hurts to think about how many more have done it that I don't even know about.
Somewhat related: https://youtu.be/MIzra5yB3hc
Another for the "headlines from 1945" collection
these guys are still alive? *edit - jfc I thought they were talking about a prosecution from the war 😭
I do love the implication that they would just immediately get the wall though
I had just been reading up on Japanese apologies for war crimes from 2015
We should bring back racial science and phrenology but just for white people so we can find out where the racism and pedophilia lobes are in the brain
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