The Japanese – that crazy culture that’s sexually repressed and open at the same time. Have a term for it: Chaku Eru. The literal translation is “sexually clothed.” That means there’s no graphic nudity involved. The poses are very suggestive and almost cross the line between erotica and pornography. While that may not be problematic on its own, the disturbing part is it involves girls as young as six years old.
In fact, in this subculture of Japanese pornography industry. Six-year-old pornography genre earns five times more than a teenager genre.
Schoolgirl Culture
You may have heard about schoolgirl culture, which is a popular genre in pornography. Child pornography is illegal in Japan and 18 is the age of consent when it comes to having sex on video. But having adult women wear high school uniforms gives off the suggestion is that they are innocent, submissive, and eager to learn.
But is somebody who loves this pornographic theme can be considered a paedophile?
Unfortunately, even with our technological advances, we have yet to map the gene of paedophila. Research suggests sexual deviancy is a by-product of testosterone, the male sex hormone, which explains why people who are attracted to prepubescent children are mostly men.
Distressing Research on Men’s Tendencies
Now, this will really blow your mind. Back in 2014, an academic study concluded that men are naturally inclined to be aroused by underage women. Even prepubescent girls. So if you stumble upon a video involving a 13-year-old and found yourself to be getting hard. Could that be biology talking? Are you feeling guilty about it? If you are actively seeking out porn videos of girls and boys under 11 years old, then you probably are on a very slippery slope.
Watching vs Acting
It’s useless to deny it when we have first-hand accounts of child assault convicts in prison who testified that watching child porn made them act their fantasies in real life. But even today, there’s no direct causality between watching porn and rape. At least the evidence is not there to send off a warning. It’s the same criticism on shoot ‘em up games, which reportedly promotes aggression.
The operative word here is balance. Any extreme behavior will have a corrosive effect one way or the other. If you can no longer function without watching porn every day, you get withdrawal symptoms, you act out the scenes in real life during consensual sexual activities then you definitely have a porn addiction.
Danish Professor of Criminology Berl Kutchinsky actually released a research titled. Studies on Pornography and sex crimes in Denmark, that says porn helps stem criminality because the sexual release diminishes aggression. Of course, Kutchinsky is a product of his time. Porn then was starkly different than what we see today—BDSM, bestiality, sex toys and even gore.
We all have our dark thoughts and secrets. Although there are no statistics, a good number of the population—both men and women—fall within the definition of a paedophile. Trouble only comes when we act on them.
