OK, this is the e-mail: I am sending it to anime fans to get their signatures and comments. I hope to get 1 million otaku who hate hentai to sign on to it, hehe. -^.^- Then I will forward the e-mail to the US Congress and to its equivalent legislative body in Japan for a dual-pronged attack against hentai.
the e-mail:
"I hope this will be the first of a million or more anti-hentai e-mails that will be sent, once the one-million mark is reached, to the Congress of the United States and to its equivalent legislative body in Japan.
Hentai, and its variants yaoi, yuri, and ecchi, are scourges on our cultures and on our common interest. It is violently pornographic, often involving the rape and abuse of women and children, among other sick and perverted acts.
As if that were not bad enough, much hentai (the operative term I will use to describe hentai, yaoi, yuri, and ecchi) is made with copied and redrawn characters from normal anime. Sometimes this is done with the original artist and author's knowledge and consent: most of the time it is not. Internet hentai is a business fueled by plagarism-outright theft of another's intellectual property.
Hentai is incredibly easy for anyone old enough to use the Internet or walk into a video store to find. The sites that ask for passwords or credit card numbers can easily be entered by entering random numbers or passwords, or borrowing that of someone else in the home. Video stores rarely check ID-in a recent case in America, a 12 year old boy was able to buy several hentai videos from a none-too-savvy clerk. The only good of the situation was that the boy was participating in a hidden camera investigation for a local TV station, and did not view his illegal purchases.
Hentai inspires crime. The rates of child abduction and molestation, rape, and murder have been steadily increasing in both American and Japanese society. In far too many of these cases (most notably the kidnapping and murder of Danielle Van Dam) the accused killer/rapist/kidnapper was a fan and collector of hentai.
This is a request for a comprehensive law restricting the production and availability of hentai.
Such a law would involve at least these points:
1: Existing theft of intellectual property (plagarism) laws should be strengthened to quadruple the penalty for anyone who redraws or rewrites a work without the author's and/or artist's permission.
2: Hentai itself should be put under the same restrictions that live-action porn is: no images of children or childlike creatures.
3: "Spam" from hentai sites should be restricted to a by-request basis.
4: Hentai sites must clearly identify themselves, and institute stricter identification technology.
5: Selling or marketing hentai to anyone under the age of 18 should be a crime.
I'm Susan, 18 years old, a student and amateur writer from El Cajon, California. I am also the head of my own anti-hentai organization, called "Take Out The Trash."
The reasons I don't like hentai are exactly those I listed at the beginning of this e-mail. Also, it is against my faith and intellectually insulting.
The increase in tragedies related to hentai, as well as the prospect of having my own writing stolen someday, has made me want an anti-hentai law.
How many more must cry
How many more must die
Because of hentai?
(every time this reaches 10 people please forward it back to me at -my e-mail address-)"
So far my plans are to educate the general public as to what hentai is and why it is not good, to rally anime fans to fight something that is destroying our subculture and the culture at large, and to request stricter regulation of or a total ban on hentai.
Also I want to get counselors to participate in an anonymous e-mail counseling service for hentai addicts who see that they have a problem.
I'm writing the webpage, hopefully along with the person who is giving me the webspace to post it. . .and I need ANY anti-porn and SPECIFICALLY any anti-hentai/yaoi/yuri/ecchi material you can find, because I want to take a more pragmatic approach than the other anti-hentai sites, most of which rely on personal disgust with hentai rather than any real proof. . .
