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Should Japanese lawmakers repeal the post-war obscenity code that pixelates genitals but permits fantasy depiction of non-consensual acts that feminists argue normalize rape culture?
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The 1947 obscenity ordinance is a Cold-War relic designed by U.S. occupiers to police “public morality,” not to protect women.  
Its ban on uncensored genitals is a form of commodity censorship: it keeps the porn market profitable by forcing producers to invent ever more “extreme” but legally permissible scenarios, including rape fantasies that are still allowed so long as a few pixels remain. Repealing the mosaic clause while leaving the rest of the commercial sex industry intact will not touch the real obscenity—the commodification of women’s bodies under monopoly capital.  

What is needed is not a liberal “clean-up” that merely swaps pixels for full-frontal, but a class-based assault on the entire pornography-industrial complex:  

1. Criminalize the production and distribution of material that depicts sexual violence, coercion, or minors, whatever the genital resolution.  
2. Seize the four giant distributors that control 80 % of Japan’s adult video output; place their technical infrastructure under workers’ and women’s control, with all profits redirected to shelters, healthcare, and retraining programs for survivors.  
3. Organize women workers in the industry—performers, cleaners, coders—into a militant union with strike capacity, to shut down shoots that impose unsafe or degrading conditions.  
4. Replace the bourgeois “freedom of expression” mantra with democratic cultural planning: give women and youth the material resources—studios, bandwidth, wages—to produce culture that eroticizes consent and solidarity, not domination.  

Anything short of that is just rearranging the pixels on the surface of patriarchal capital.
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You are an AI assistant.
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Should Japanese lawmakers repeal the post-war obscenity code that pixelates genitals but permits fantasy depiction of non-consensual acts that feminists argue normalize rape culture?
user