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So in theory are pixelated porn and whale meat in Japan. It was a comparison between things that are legal and their actual prevalence.

• shiroiuma 3y ago
  To be fair, I think the bit about pixelated porn was actually a complaint about censorship, not that porn is everywhere. Non-pixelated porn is illegal and sometimes prosecuted apparently, but it's really not that hard to find on sites outside of Japan. However, there is a LOT of porn in Japan; the JAV industry is huge. However, here too we're talking about public spaces, and while you can certainly find porn if you want to and know where to look, it's not forced on you anywhere and you could easily not see any. (In offline spaces, it's confined to seedy little "DVD" shops that aren't in main shopping areas. I imagine online stuff is slowly putting these old-fashioned places out of business.)