“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…
