“It’s child porn even if the girl’s in a swimsuit”
Asahi.com reports that chief producer of adult video company Shinkousha, Arigane Jisei, has been arrested along with 3 other people under suspect of having violated child prostitution and child pornography laws with a DVD that they released earlier in the year featuring a 17 year old girl in a swimsuit.
All four suspects currently deny the charge.
There is no nudity in the video, but there are close ups to her private parts, and supposedly you can see the shape of her sexual organs through the swimsuit. The video was filmed in Bali, Indonesia, and was released in April 2007 when it sold a majority of the 5500 print run.
The girl was on contract with the company since April 2006 and is quite popular as a junior idol. She received 50,000 yen (US$430) for the filming of the video.
This is the cover of the DVD in question. It also just sold for 20,000 yen (US$170) on Yahoo auctions.
I’m really against the junior idol industry, but the other part of me feels it’s not right to be charging them if there was no nudity…
October 16th, 2007 at 9:03 am
If that’s her on the cover, she sure doesn’t look 17…
October 16th, 2007 at 9:48 am
There are lots of junior idol companies that deal with girls ranging from 4 years old and up in tiny swimsuits. The guys arrested have also dealt with similar stuff.
October 16th, 2007 at 11:46 am
430 dollars WTF
October 16th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Uh ohs.
There goes the Japanese economy.
And besides, this girl is a obaasan.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Sadly Coffee’s right, porn and anime are big cash cows. And let’s face it, Japan hasn’t been right since the whole bubble burst. They really can’t go around arbitrarily nixing markets like this and still expect to still have a solid economy.
And seriously, from 13 to 30 they all look the same…
October 16th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
that one looks like a woman in her 30’s
October 17th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
She’s too old. I like younger ones with the CamelToe.
:-)
March 10th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
meh
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:22 am
the world is dumb. when u go to swimming pools, u can easily see all this? r u saying that human nature is wrong? when babies are porn they are nude so that is child porn? show their natural body shape is wrong?
FUCK.
and many child are seen naked easily at toilets.. that is child porn too?
FUCK.
May 5th, 2008 at 6:07 am
I completely agree with Hi’s opinion on where the line is drawn in child porn.
All of the things s/he said were 100% true & factual.
I will also join him in his anger
FUCK.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:45 am
yeah thats right
FUCK
lets make this a new trend
FUCK
i may be a pedophile, cuz its sorta hot
FUCK
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I assure you, posed over 18 years young looking nude imagery is not childporn
June 3rd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
As far as Japan is concerned, leave them alone. They enjoy nudity and youth, and never intended for westerners to define what is moral or immoral for them. Who the hell is USA to speak? Look at the ilk that we condone in our highest political positions and out and out arrogant, brainless carbon is criminal ( in a carbon based planetary environment of all things) non scientific bufoon Al Gore — If anything is pornographic, it is being witness that the Al Gore climate alarmists and Demo Liberals are still not incarcerated for life now,thats pornography!