Why are Eroges censored in Japan?

[WinterfuryZX]

Isn't unc. jav basically murican porn with Japanes actors?

[sanahtlig]

35 minutes ago, Tyrosyn said:

The difference in attitudes towards pornographic content is not much different in some Western countries than in Japan. We also have a history full of sexuality and pornography. But we still don't have this level of sophisticated porn output today like the Japanese have.
At this point I think it's not because of culture, but because the Japanese were conditioned to this kind of porn by only having censored porn available. What you are seeing nowadays as Japanese "culture" is heavily shaped by years of producing censored pornography and trying to circumvent or enhance it. And embracing it. Censorship is part of the reason for this culture's existence, part of its origin. It's the fundamental difference between pron in Japan and in the West.

What will happen to the Japanese culture when we remove the censorship? Well, just look at uncensored JAVs. They are like Western porn, uninspired and with no innovation. No effort, because it will be bought thanks to uncensored genitals and not because of the quality of the product. Japanese people are no different than Western people in that regard. Japaneses culture doesn't protect the genre from going the cheap, low effort way if it's possible.

With the difference that in Western porn it's the exception while in Japanese porn it's the norm.

I had a very similar discussion with LewdLogic (head of LewdGamer) on the difference between the Japanese and Western adult markets.  We concluded that the difference is that in the West, the porn industry is actively suppressed by governments and the commercial and financial sectors.  We were mainly discussing why a professional industry for adult gaming exists in Japan but not in the West, but this likely applies to some extent to the wider adult industry.  The demand for professional content (backed by paying customers) and the talent necessary to produce it just never quite coalesced in the West (or it only coalesced around specific content types rather than more broadly).

Again, the argument being that the reasons for the differences you see are much more complex than you're acknowledging here.