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talktoolooseWhat is the meaning of making overt and graphic sexuality cute? Does it mean that society is finding sexuality itself less threatening? Or is it an attempt to take the hairy sweaty reality of sex and make it feel safer by putting it into the world of Disney kids cartoons? Much of what I write below could probably extend to the fur world, but I don't know much about that world.
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yaoi_daily to see manga homosexuality and there are at least there distinct streams of depiction: The first is men as men who find themselves suddenly attracted to or in a relationship with another man unexpectedly (including historical war dramas and a prison drama called UGH). The second is pretty, androgynous young men either falling for each other or for a manly man. These latter follow the classic pattern of the romance novel with the young man being a blond, willowy bottom who finds himself drawn to the dark, strong, sexually aggressive top. The third is little pubescent sexual dramas drawn cute style but with hard-ons. Or else little pubescent-looking smooth demons with hard-on.
I find this third stream very odd personally but I'm interested in the teenage girls who are very drawn to it. It's interesting that for them, the world of KYOOOOOT (Hello Kitty style) gets extended to a world of ass-humping and ejaculation.
In evidence in all three is the relative Japanese comfort with bodily fluids. Cum, sweat and tears practically drench each page even when penises are artistically blurred out.
I rented the anime Level C and it falls into the second of my three categories with the very feminized, blond 19 year old fashion model boy learning about man/man love from an older, black-haired lothario. The sex is explicit, but the penises are transparent! They drip with pre-cum and cum that clearly outlines them but they are themselves invisible. It's a funny kind of delicacy in scenes where the lothario jacks off the young man and then licks the cum off his hands and spreads it to the boy's ass.
Interestingly, I find little or none of this to be stroke material and instead find myself fascinated and grateful to actually see male/male love depicted in comics. Not surprisingly, I find the ones that are actually about men in love and lust to be more interesting than the ones that seem to be coded het-love with a twist -- perhaps designed for teenage girls who aren't yet ready to imagine their own legs opening to the lothario and need a feminized male substitute to take the plunge for them.
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yaoi_daily to see manga homosexuality and there are at least there distinct streams of depiction: The first is men as men who find themselves suddenly attracted to or in a relationship with another man unexpectedly (including historical war dramas and a prison drama called UGH). The second is pretty, androgynous young men either falling for each other or for a manly man. These latter follow the classic pattern of the romance novel with the young man being a blond, willowy bottom who finds himself drawn to the dark, strong, sexually aggressive top. The third is little pubescent sexual dramas drawn cute style but with hard-ons. Or else little pubescent-looking smooth demons with hard-on.I find this third stream very odd personally but I'm interested in the teenage girls who are very drawn to it. It's interesting that for them, the world of KYOOOOOT (Hello Kitty style) gets extended to a world of ass-humping and ejaculation.
In evidence in all three is the relative Japanese comfort with bodily fluids. Cum, sweat and tears practically drench each page even when penises are artistically blurred out.
I rented the anime Level C and it falls into the second of my three categories with the very feminized, blond 19 year old fashion model boy learning about man/man love from an older, black-haired lothario. The sex is explicit, but the penises are transparent! They drip with pre-cum and cum that clearly outlines them but they are themselves invisible. It's a funny kind of delicacy in scenes where the lothario jacks off the young man and then licks the cum off his hands and spreads it to the boy's ass.
Interestingly, I find little or none of this to be stroke material and instead find myself fascinated and grateful to actually see male/male love depicted in comics. Not surprisingly, I find the ones that are actually about men in love and lust to be more interesting than the ones that seem to be coded het-love with a twist -- perhaps designed for teenage girls who aren't yet ready to imagine their own legs opening to the lothario and need a feminized male substitute to take the plunge for them.
