Clamp Questions

[sharpeslass]

Okay, so my return to LiveJournal didn't take off quite with the momentum I'd planned. I just don't know where my time goes. I looked at my e-mail today and realized that two months had passed since I'd received an e-mail from a very good friend and that I still hadn't responded. I'm sure she is cross, but the time... it just sprints in epic

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[helliongoddess]

Actually, I was hoping it would go in the cultural direction, myself. Having my own shota issues (I get Phae's "throwup in my throat") reaction to just about any stuff between older adults and anyone 13 and younger. It just rubs me the wrong way - I can't stop thinking about what my kid was like at that age and how much I would have wanted to FUCKING KILL and mutilate any man or woman that touched her at that age.

So I am constantly struggling with the underage sex issue when I encounter it in fandoms, and I avoid having to read it, write it, or RP it. There are some issues where I can do that seperation, that "it's just a fantasy" thing with, but not that one. So trying to understand the cultural phenomena behind it is something I have grasped for too, to see if it might help me understand why there is so much of it throughout anime.

And - just from the little I know, and I admittedly know so little - Japanese society seems to be full of contradictory and paradoxical attitudes and mores about sex. I mean, you can buy used panties from vending machines, but it's considered rude and outrageous just to kiss in public????? It just doesn't compute to my little gai-jin mind. And don't even get me started on all the sex... toys, for lack of a better word, that are apparently for sale, just everywhere (the "c*nt in a cup" things just blow my mind... it's like ramen noodle sex, but with celebrity... endorsements? endowments? @____@)

So any cultural insights would have been welcomed, from my muddled corner...

[sharpeslass]

LOL! Yes. Japan baffles me. So much to love, so much to hate. Probably true of every nation, but we are so used to what surrounds us.

Lauand gave me some interesting insight into the world of CLAMP love (see below). I thought that was interesting and helpful. It aided my understanding of some of the material a bit... (in the case of these stories, not of shota in general and these stories are VERY innocent about "love").