hentai and sex offenders

Rule 13 of Special Conditions of Parole subparagraph (g) Unless otherwise indicated for the treatment required under subparagraph (E) of this paragraph, a prohibition against viewing, listening to, owning or possessing any sexually stimulating visual or auditory materials that are relevant to the person’s deviant behavior.

yesterday, or the day before, i got an email from my very favoritest aunt who works for the prison system in oregon. (she works in the building where ‘one flew over the cuckoo nest’ was filmed. fucking creepy place. totally haunted. there’s a ghost in this black dress which rustles who wanders around at night. oh man. it’s like the floor goes creak, creeeeeak, and her dress goes russsstle, russstle russstle.)

that’s besides the point.

anyway, my aunt sent me this email containing part of a dialogue between the members of the Sex Offenders Supervision Network concerning the use of japanese anime porn as a tool which can reinforce deviant behavior among sex offenders. due to their job title they’re going to ban anime renting and buying for sex offenders in prison and on parole.

now obviously, i would agree that some hentai is seriously fucked up, what with the tentacles and the graphic rape and so on. but there’s a lot of discussion over whether or not television and the like produce behavior patterns. i have no idea what the statistics are in japan for rape or sexual offensives (although now i’ve read this paper i know quite a bit more. and from this i would venture to say that anime porn comics and videos are not affecting sexual offenses in japan. [“It is certainly clear from our data and analysis that a massive increase in available pornography in Japan has been correlated with a dramatic decrease in sexual crimes and most so among youngsters as perpetrators or victims.” quote from the paper linked above] but in america this might be a different story as certainly there is an incredibly large percentage difference between japan and the US in offense cases of this sort.)

my point with all this is that i think doing a case study on prisons and sex offender parolees and how hentai anime affects them (or not) would be really, really interesting. i tried to find out if any research had been done already, but when you put “hentai” and “sex offender” into a search engine, all you get is porn sites. and…probably now i will be getting a lot of pornographic comments on this page. sigh.

(click below to read the comment from the SOSN that my aunt sent me)

My sense is that your friends are more into the mainstream Anime, b/c Hentai Anime is much more violent and sexual. It is not “connected to pornography”, it goes beyond normal pornographic material. Whole series revolve around degradation, rape, and molestation. The women portrayed are a majority of the time child-like waifs secretly desiring to be sexually assaulted. There is even a more hardcore type called “Doujin” that will often revolve around bloodletting in the course of the sexual assault. Just b/c you weren’t exposed to it doesn’t mean your clients can not get a hold of it off any computer hooked to the internet or in the back of Anime magazines sold at the local bookstore. Receiving Hentai or Doujin through the mail isn’t monitored like Child Pornography is. Beyond the movies and comic books, there are even video games in which the player can portray a rapist and make decisions on how to best rape or molest an unsuspecting person. Any of these mediums are strife with possibilities to fuel deviant arousal patterns and a threat to any relapse prevention plan. Don’t kid yourself, it’s dangerous stuff, b/c not only is it more violent & sexual than your run-of-the-mill pornography, but the cartoon-like medium also allows the viewer a degree of disconnection with the brutality of the assault. It can be more enticing to feed the deviant sexual fantasies of the offender while desensitizing them to the reality of the seriousness of the act due to the cartoon-ish nature of the Anime. Not all Anime is Hentai or Doujin, but I think we need to be aware that it is out there and readily available. If you are truly interested in seeing what this stuff I’m talking about is really like, pick up a copy of the videos like “Black Bible”, “S&M School”, or “La Blue Girl” or comics such as “Sexctasy”, “Taboo”, or “Slut Girl”-all of which surprisingly can be purchased at or through local comic book stores, and I think your opinion will change dramatically.