Sensitive Boy - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - It was fun

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I don't think the Japanese are any better or worse about "stuff like this", compared to other industrialized cultures.
Oh yeah every culture has some serious issues with how they treat male SA. But Japan is pretty bad about sexual crimes even by those standards. I mean, for the love of god, investigators used to force victims to reenact their assault with a sex doll.

Male SA wasn't criminalized until 2018, with the requirement of proving violence or intimidation. Coercion and lack of consent were still not recognized as grounds for rape until this May. Cases have been thrown out because prosecutors couldn't prove if the victim "resisted" enough. It's just generally a fucked situation.

To put it another way, I have zero expectations of Japanese media treating male SA seriously and honestly. But this manga does and I'm happy about that.
 
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Oh yeah every culture has some serious issues with how they treat male SA. But Japan is pretty bad about sexual crimes even by those standards. I mean, for the love of god, investigators used to force victims to reenact their assault with a sex doll.
tbh Japanese culture in general is a weird-ass mixture of "2070 came early" and "1970 is still hanging around"
 
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Its sad because I think it would be better if he oppened up to her fast at some level.... even "Im not comfortable being too touchy in the begining" would be good. Keeping her in the dark will being so many unecessary misunderstandings...
 
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But Japan is pretty bad about sexual crimes even by those standards.
Could they be any worse than allowing a woman rapist to plea deal her way out of ANY jail time by way of being charged for something entirely different based on the most tenuous of grounds, only to renege... to make it three months?

Male SA wasn't criminalized until 2018, with the requirement of proving violence or intimidation. Coercion and lack of consent were still not recognized as grounds for rape until this May.
Is that "not criminalized at all", or "not considered a violation of a specific statute but still criminalized according to other ones"?

I'm asking because-- as an example-- I believe the U.K still considers "rape" as necessarily penetrative (meaning female-on-male rape isn't considered "rape" by their laws), but they still have a means of prosecuting female rapists (of course, that's not accounting for personal judicial judgment and plea deals, so I reckon the procedure is a lot less clean in practice).

Even then, I was primarily concerned about its representation in media and literature when I said what I did. The bungling in writing about sexual assault-- if not the outright lack of interest in "properly" representing it, and even its romanticization-- isn't a particularly Japanese issue.
 
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Oh yeah every culture has some serious issues with how they treat male SA. But Japan is pretty bad about sexual crimes even by those standards. I mean, for the love of god, investigators used to force victims to reenact their assault with a sex doll. Male SA wasn't criminalized until 2018, with the requirement of proving violence or intimidation.

Coercion and lack of consent were still not recognized as grounds for rape until this May. Cases have been thrown out because prosecutors couldn't prove if the victim "resisted" enough. It's just generally a fucked situation, even if other industrialized countries aren't much better.

To put it another way, I have zero positive expectations of Japanese media treating male SA seriously and honestly. But this manga does and I'm happy about that.
Also, to add on to this; Japan is known for having a really low rape rate. However, this is not indicattive of rape being rare in the country, as other countries such as Sierra Leone and India who have similarly low outliers, despite being kinda known for alot of rape. It's usually more indicative of people not reporting sex crimes, cops not filing reports, and the definition of rape in the country. Not to say that low rape rate means like everyone is getting raped and not reporting it. There can be other reasons like Lichtenstein.

On the other end you also not gonna have a really high rape rate, unless victims actually have good means to report the rape and also like alot of rape happening.

It's also not like places people generally consider modernized don't have this issue as well, suprisingly places like Canada, Hong Kong, and Greece, which I think most people consider pretty modern places have really low rape rates that don't match the population.
 
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Also, to add on to this; Japan is known for having a really low rape rate. However, this is not indicattive of rape being rare in the country, as other countries such as Sierra Leone and India who have similarly low outliers, despite being kinda known for alot of rape. It's usually more indicative of people not reporting sex crimes, cops not filing reports, and the definition of rape in the country. Not to say that low rape rate means like everyone is getting raped and not reporting it. There can be other reasons like Lichtenstein.

On the other end you also not gonna have a really high rape rate, unless victims actually have good means to report the rape and also like alot of rape happening.

It's also not like places people generally consider modernized don't have this issue as well, suprisingly places like Canada, Hong Kong, and Greece, which I think most people consider pretty modern places have really low rape rates that don't match the population.
Yeah if you are a man good luck trying to convince someone that you were raped by a woman, i seen people in the comment section of this manga saying that man cant be rape unless the rapist is another man, in most of the countrys if you suffer any abuse as a man by a woman you may as well off yourself, because if talk about it you will be judged by everyone around you as a weak man, you will lose all your "man stocks"' in the dating market and if you try to have the law by your side is more easy that the offender have you in jail instead. I have seen shit like this happen to people around me, makes me scare of dating...
 

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