“Model Mothers” feed lolicon hunger by exploiting their daughters
Back when I posted about the Koda Kumi Erotic/Cute childrens’ dance competition, which featured elementary school aged girls girating their hips in clothing fit for hookers, I got a lot of comments from people who accused me of unfairly judging Japan’s culture and applying western morals to it. Well, all you cultural/moral relativists out there can suck it: Mainichi’s WaiWai is running a column that claims many Japanese are disturbed by such pedo-tastic displays. Here’s an excerpt:
“We’ve always had loads of kids looking to become celebrities, but the photos they send in to us have become more and more risque. Sometimes, you’ll get photos of a kid dressed in a tiny, ultra-low cut tank top and micro-miniskirt, standing there spreading her legs wide. You have to ask yourself: ‘Is this really an elementary school girl?” an employee of a major talent agency tells Josei Seven.
“Seeing these little girls wearing fashions clearly designed for women in their late teens or 20s and their faces caked with make-up can be pretty overwhelming.”
Parents have mixed feelings about the trend.
“I’ve got a girl in junior high who tells me ‘these fashions are the in thing’ and ‘everybody’s wearing them.’ I don’t want to come down on her too hard, because if she’s too different from the other kids around her, it could make life real tough for her,” one 40-year-old mother says.
Another sees no problem in dressing young girls as though they were streetwalkers.
“What’s wrong with fashion that exposes a lot of skin?” a 36-year-old mom asks. “If the kids like it, let ‘em wear it. I think it’s kinda cute.”
Yumiko Mizuno is one mother who has no qualms about letting her daughters bare it all if that means a one-way ticket down easy street. Mizuno is paying particular attention to her 11-year-old daughter who’s keen on getting into showbiz.
“If we got an offer for her to do a swimsuit photo shoot, of course I’d snap it up right away. With glee,” Mizuno tells Josei Seven. “Nude shots and adult movies are out, but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with swimsuit shots where she puts on sexy poses. The kids may be a bit embarrassed, but they’ve got to learn that this is their opening to the big time.”
Writer Yuki Ishikawa says moms keen to flog off their young daughters for fame at any price have adopted a too cynical view of life.
“A lot of housewives’ satisfaction with life depends more on their husbands than on themselves. How they fare in life depends on how their hubbies go. They want to make their daughters into women who are going to be alluring for good men,” Ishikawa says.
It’s this same allure that has others worried, particularly because of the recent spate of violent crimes against children, particularly little girls.
Stage mom Mizuno, though, says such fears are unfounded.
“Even if some guy gives a girl a lecherous look, the kids know enough to just ignore him and walk away. It’s all right,” she says.
Others aren’t so sure. In the meantime, the trend continues.
“It’s become something of an issue within the business. Once upon a time, parents used to forbid their kids from being in swimsuit shots or photo shoots. Now, we get parents telling us their kids are willing to do anything, even swimsuit shots,” the talent agency employee says. “We even get some parents who tell us that if we really want them to, they’ll make their kids take everything off. We don’t want to have to deal with that sort of thing.”
But one mom says it’s worth it to do whatever it takes if fame and fortune await.
“Frankly speaking, I’d feel pretty good about myself, too, if my daughter becomes famous,” she says. “And if she becomes a top pin-up model, then things become easier on the financial front, too.”
Just as in the case of the Koda Kumi dance contest, this seems to be a case of Mothers pushing their children to sexualize themselves so they can become famous by exploiting the lolicon market. Pretty disgusting.
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This is a further manifestation of how people become desensitized to things and begin to expand the horizons of what is “acceptable”. The age at which it’s okay to sexualize a minor has been constantly pushed back just like the amount of skin revealed by clothing has been constantly increased.
Every time a boundary is relaxed, it becomes easier to further push it back. This is especially true when someone has a vested interest in denying the danger of doing so such as the stage mother who is speaking in the article.
I think that it’s hard to advocate limits in this day and age without being labelled uptight or prudish because there is nearly complete denial about the effects of desensitization on people by those who enjoy a particular form of entertainment and have a vested interest in seeing it continue without restrictions.
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I can find twelve Japanese housewives who will say anything.
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And you can also find a major Japanese magazine that will consider the issue worth printing, and a newspaper that considers the story worth picking up, right?
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Still, lets consider the source. I was forced to fisk plunge (see the comments) for taking waiwai as the absolute truth, and he turned out to be dead wrong.
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Matt,
The panty pulling article is far different than an article that quotes concerned parents. As with any Japanese magazine article, the quotes could be faked, but the mere fact that the article was printed in a major weekly shows that some people out there think that 12 year olds doing sexy photoshoots is going a little bit too far.
As for the panty-pulling vids, I have 2 of them, plus the tube top pulling and suprise public ejaculation ones. The women were likely paid, but the mere fact that they filmed the videos in crowded public places is a testament to to the insane bravery of the pervs behind it. Truly fantastic works of perversion.
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Saying that many Japanese are disturbed sounds like an overstatement here. I don’t see any facts in the article that would point to that. Words like “dressing young girls as though they were streetwalkers” belong to the (biased) authors of the paper, not the interviewed Japanese.
I have seen some japanese videos of children in swimsuits and don’t think that they are disgusting or something. I don’t see anything sexual in that either. It is cute, that’s it.
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nightfish:
http://koyakudvd3.blog42.fc2.com/blog-entry-673.html
The article seems focused on DVD’s such as the one above. Judging from the screen captures, it is not meant to be simply cute. Maybe you see it as non-sexual, but it is clearly meant to be sexual.
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Even if it is “clearly meant to be sexual”, I don’t see why do you think that Japanese are disturbed by it. It is sold in Kinokuniya and I bet many buy it. So it should be considered OK in Japan.
I think this one is even weirder – http://gaijin-life.info/karlson/kanamara_2_03.jpg
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Nightfish:
Do you think the adult men who buy those DVD’s are considered normal by most Japanese? I think it would safe to say that most Japanese women would consider a guy who owns those kind of DVD’s to be creepy and “kimoi”. While not a scientific survey, every Japanese girl I’ve asked about elementary school age bikini idols or pedo manga has told me that they’d never consider dating a man if they knew he liked that kind of stuff, and they thought it was disgusting (The Koda Kumi dance thing is a different issue, however, since many of the dance acts were much cuter than they were sexual). The fact that it’s sold at kinokuniya doesn’t mean that many people are disturbed by it. It just means that there’s money to be made and that the vast majority of Japanese people don’t care about the issue enough to bother campaigning to get them removed. Since they don’t actually contain nudity, it’s not technically child porn. The same can be said of the huge amount of manga featuring child rape out there. Since it’s not real photos of real people, its not directly harming children and it’s not child pornography under Japanese law.
As for the image you posted, I don’t really consider it to be strange. I’m a pretty liberal person, and I don’t see a problem with a baby having his picture taken atop a large wooden phallus at a Japanese fertility festival. I’ve been to one of the “large wooden cock” festivals, and there were many women with babies there who were celebrating the birth of a new baby, which they credited to their prayers at the fertility shrine.
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I visited Japan in 2002 to witness the World Cup. I was amazed to find so many “blond” Japanese people on the streets. Don’t the Japanese realize that blond hair on an Asian face looks ridiculous? The Japanese and Asians in general have yellow or brown faces,flat noses and Mongoloid looking eyes.These physical attributes do not go together with blond hair,so please do not make yourselves look silly by dying your hair blond.God wanted white people to have blond hair,not Asians.
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That koyakudvd3 link really is disturbing. I think the disconnect is that, as you said, “the Koda Kumi dance thing is a different issue…since many of the dance acts were much cuter than they were sexual.”
So, of course people aren’t going to agree with you when you write: “I got a lot of comments from people who accused me of unfairly judging Japan’s culture and applying western morals to it. Well, all you cultural/moral relativists out there can suck it.”
It is two different issues.
The lolicon posts are always interesting, though.
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one sentence.
westerners moral lol.
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Well we have all fallen short. This is a issue I only see growing worst if we continue to let “pop” culture govern what goes own it our households.
This is about parents being good parents. If a tree takes root on barren land it will not produce “good” fruit. So is the relationship between parent and child.
If the parent has no moral fiber then society must tech it and if none is not found in society then it is not learned. As a parent is your duty to teach your child the ways of a righteous life.
If righteousness is not in the heart of the parent then he/she will teach unrightous ways. Righteousness comes form above not from within man but form living according to the will of God.
Resist
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pfft – morality is utterly subjective.
“exploitation”, “perversion”, and so forth are nothing more people sitting in judgement over other people.
Children are starving in the Thirld World.
Bitch about that rather than about what clothes Japanese tweens are wearing.
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I can only agree with James, everyday I see young, and I mean YOUNG girls walking around dressed like like 2 foot tall hookers. As for the mother in the article, she needs some kind of rude awakening.
Ive been here a fair while now, so I dont know what pre-teens are dressing like back home, but surely its not the same as here.
As to the comments about Japanese people not being up in arms in protest…do I need to state the obvious? When was the last time a large group of Japanese people protested about anything? Could there be a more docile, compliant nation on the planet. A couple of weeks ago a group of maybe 30 people were protesting something on the street outside our school, a few in wheelchairs, some bent double over their walking sticks. The cops in flak jackets out-numbered them by far.
As long as its not happening to them personally, no-ones gonna give a festered rats arse.
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It would seem to me that nobody is nobody and all emptiness lies at the heart of the issue.
Simply put
There are pedos, everywhere in every city state country providence and territory
There are and always will be exploited people (people includes children)
There are and always be people who will exploit others even if they are family and church/religion
There are more pressing issues, and there is more than one “Modest Proposal”
Here’s an idea, have all the pedos sponsor the third world, in exchange they get to have their way with the kiddies.
Twisted, perverted and aweful but it takes care of both issues, after all parents give their children away to any predator that happens by. They work late for ‘the good of the child’ and the perverted neighbor comes by to ‘keep the child company’ so much worse happens and nobody gives a rip. Who gives a **** about Japan, or even america, what happened to protecting you own family? What happened for being there for your kids? what happened to the true sacrifice, not having to work 70 hours to maintain status quo, but going without for your child? Staying home so the neighborhood perv can’t walk in and molest your son or daughter. So what if the kid knows YOU are poor. they know it anyway. I used YOU because the kid wants it’s parents, not a new gameboy or playstation. Later in life they may actually learn that it’s ok to want and not have.
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People who say this is Westerners morals you guys are idiotic. Then again I bet you guys have pictures like that sitting on your desktop or as your wallpaper on your pc. In this day of age anything like that seems acceptable because you have retards like Paris Hilton dressing like that when in reality there’s thousands of pedo’s looking for pictures like that waiting for the chance to find them and snatch them up rarely seen if ever seen again alive.
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