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When I was 18, I found out that my brother (I'll call him "T") had been sexually abused for years by a family friend. This friend had been one of our dad's drinking buddies. He would come over and they would get so sloshed together that this friend would end up spending the night. When it started, "T" was about 8.
Manila (CNN Philippines Life) — The popularity of the “2gether: The Series” has prompted local media to explain and theorize why, all of a sudden, the Filipino audience is crazy over a show about two college students falling in love with each other after pretending to be in a relationship.What’s obscene? Query Google for [ “legal definition of obscene” ] and read. Then speak with your own Iowa-licensed First Amendment attorney. A local blog has described the show as “new.” “We need to face our new reality,” it said. A fashion publication has called it “unapologetically gay.” A news outfit has called it “a testament to how far we’ve come in terms of acceptance.” These reasons are not wrong, but they’re also not accurate. The term "shotacon" is a Japanese contraction of Shōtarō complex ( 正太郎コンプレックス, Shōtarō konpurekkusu), a reference to the young male character Shōtarō ( 正太郎) from Tetsujin 28-go. [3] In the anime and manga series, Shōtarō is a bold, self-assertive detective who frequently outwits his adversaries and helps to solve cases. Throughout the series, Shōtarō develops close friends within the world. His bishōnen cuteness embodied and formed the term "shotacon", putting a name to an old sexual subculture. The word shotacon itself was coined in the magazine Fan Road in 1981. [6]
You should read the most relevant federal law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1466A While sections (a)(2) and (b)(2) of the statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1466A, have been held unconstitutional by at least one court, the rest has been upheld many times. Tamaki Saitō writes that although the modern shotacon audience has a roughly even split between males and females, the genre is rumored to have roots in early 1980s dōjinshi as an offshoot of yaoi. [3] Saitō suggests that shotacon was adopted by male readers who were influenced by lolicon; thus, he claims " shota texts by female yaoi authors are structurally identical to yaoi texts, while shota by male otaku clearly position these little boys as young girls with penises". [7] Kaoru Nagayama writes that the 1995 manga anthology U.C. BOYS: Under Cover Boys started a boom in commercial shotacon in the second half of the 1990s. [8] During this time, male-oriented shotacon emerged and mixed with female-oriented shotacon: "the situation was such that shota works targeting women, men and a combination of both were all in close proximity." [8] The boom collapsed at the end of the 1990s, but male-targeted shotacon saw a small resurgence starting in 2002. [8] Shotacon publications [ edit ] Kimi, Rito (2021). The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of Eromanga. FAKKU. p.242. ISBN 978-1-63442-253-6. McLelland, Mark (2000). Male homosexuality in modern Japan. Routledge. pp.134, 138. ISBN 0-7007-1300-X.Syotaket" (in Japanese). Syotaket. n.d. Archived from the original on 2009-05-11 . Retrieved 2009-07-23. The two shows obviously aren’t BL; it’s a gender-bender hetero romance. But the shows don’t shrug off the implication of falling in love with a boy (who is actually a girl). “Coffee Prince” takes this further than “Hana-Kimi,” with the show depicting Han-gyul as actually questioning his sexuality over his feelings for Eun-hye. The 2012 local adaptation of “Coffee Prince,” which stars Aljur Abrenica and Kris Bernal, doesn’t sidestep the gay themes of the story, too. Since I believe that "T" is not actively seeking recovery from this trauma, I don't know where he stands. I would think that any question about that should be within limits if he's truly seeking emotional health, but I'm dealing with someone who acts victimized that I would even ask the question. My fear is that by bringing it up, I would be ostracized to the point that if intervention became necessary, I wouldn't know it because they would keep so much space between. Should I try, anyway? Deconstructed: First of all, it would be considered illegal in today's day and age, and secondly, the emotional and mental maturity required to be in a relationship is perhaps too much for a young, un(der)developed boy, and not to mention the possibility that Alice could be manipulating him... Many of the newer BL shows do correct these faults. Characters now identify themselves as gay or bisexual, for example. But BL shows don’t always show the reality and nuances of gay lives and relationships because they have to settle for a version of it that’s palatable to a wide (mostly female) audience. Thus, they are not necessarily gay shows. This isn’t bad per se, though it’s a possible limitation of the genre. BL is a genre in itself; it is not just romantic fiction that features gay relationships.
BL elements have also been present in Philippine pop culture since the early 2000s. Local TV is yet to produce an actual BL show, though there are several forthcoming. There are, of course, made many LGBT-themed shows such as “My Husband’s Lover,” “The Rich Man Daughter,” “Destiny Rose,” not to mention the many gay-themed episodes of ABS-CBN and GMA-7’s drama anthology shows. TV networks have, however, aired foreign shows with BL themes and tropes. Mga Batang Poz,” produced by the ABS-CBN streaming service iWant, is the closest thing we have to a BL series. But don’t be mistaken: even with the presence of gay characters and homoerotic romance, “Mga Batang Poz” is not a BL. Not in the strictest sense of the word. Some critics claim that the shotacon genre contributes to actual sexual abuse of children, [4] while others claim that there is no evidence for this, [4] or that there is evidence to the contrary. [5] Origins [ edit ]Shotacon for male readers may feature either homosexual or heterosexual relationships. [nb 2] Both gay and straight shotacon typically involve escapades between smaller, often pubescent males and young adults (older brother/sister figures), sexually frustrated authority figures (teacher/boss), significantly older "uncle/aunt" figures (neighborhood acquaintances, actual family members), or outright father or mother figures (adopted, step, or full blood relation). Outside of these tropes, stories that involve only young boys (with no older characters) are not rare, with the most common recurring theme being a classmate relation.
Milton Diamond and Ayako Uchiyama (1999). "Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan". International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 22 (1): 1–22. doi: 10.1016/S0160-2527(98)00035-1. PMID 10086287 . Retrieved 2008-01-06. Nagaike, Kazumi (2022-12-16). "Male Love for BL, Shota, and Otokonoko Characters: Japanese Alternative Masculinities Mediating Different Modes of Existence". Mechademia. 15 (1): 150. ISSN 2152-6648. You aren't to blame. There is nothing you could have done to stop these things and there is nothing you can do to change what has happened. Coffee Prince,” adapted from a novel of the same name, pretty much has the same premise: Choi Han-gyul (played by Gong Yoo) hires Go Eun-chan (played by Yoon Eun-hye), who he thinks is a guy, to pretend to be his gay lover to escape the blind dates arranged by his grandmother. When Han-gyul takes over an old coffee shop (the titular Coffee Prince), he hires good-looking employees to attract female customers. Eun-hye continues to pretend to be a man to get a job at Coffee Prince, where she and Han-gyul develop feelings for each other.Shotacon ( ショタコン, shotakon), abbreviated from Shōtarō complex ( 正太郎コンプレックス, shōtarō konpurekkusu), is, in Japanese contexts, the attraction to young (or young-looking) boy characters, or media centered around this attraction. The term refers to a genre of manga and anime wherein prepubescent or pubescent male characters are depicted in a suggestive or erotic manner, whether in the obvious role of object of attraction, or the less apparent role of "subject" (the character the reader is designed to associate with). Mga Batang Poz” is unapologletically gay. The show is created by gay men; it is directed by Chris Martinez and its teleplay was written by Jerry Gracio. It is marketed as an “advocacy” series, made to promote HIV awareness, particularly among young gay men. So the stories are specifically gay stories, about the young gay lifestyle. Its characters identify as gay, and one of its actors, Awra Briguela, is an openly gay actor. Sex in BL is often shown as tender, similar to how sex is depicted in a heterosexual romance fiction. In “Mga Batang Poz”, sex is depicted as rough, even violent. Three of the four main characters are straight-acting, but it never suggests that only straight-acting gays are attractive and desirable. In short: nothing about “Mga Batang Poz” suggests that it cares about pandering to a general audience. The show feels like it is specifically made for gay men. Shotacon for women is almost exclusively yaoi, and may be published in general yaoi anthology magazines or in one of the few exclusively shotacon yaoi anthologies, such as Shōnen Romance. Because of the possible legal issues, US publishers of yaoi have avoided material depicting notably underage characters. [11] In 2006, Juné released an English translation of Mako Takahashi's Naichaisouyo ( 泣いちゃいそうよ) under the title "Almost Crying", [12] a non-erotic shotacon manga; the book contains several stories featuring pubescent male characters, but their relationships are nonsexual. The Japan of “Ossan’s Love” is realistic. It has to be, because the characters are middle-aged men. Coming out as gay has real life repurcussions beyond being teased by peers. It is hard, regardless if you’re 18 years old, or 25, or 33, or 55. It’s a refreshing change from Thai BL shows that usually just tells stories about young and attractive men. Other popular and acclaomed gay-themed titles from Japan with mature gay characters are “Kinō Nani Tabeta?” (What Did You Eat Yesterday?), a slice of life series about a gay couple, and “My Brother’s Husband.” Both are manga series that were adapted to live-action shows.
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