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Originally Posted by Koir
I also agree with Nyororin's comments about her grandfather. "It's foreign to me, so therefore it's wrong and will corrupt anyone in record time no matter what."
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That isn`t quite true - he lived in Japan. It wasn`t quite as simple as jumping at the unknown. He is just a strongly religious person, and the lack of Christian thinking and ideals in Japan was not his cup of tea. In his case it wasn`t the unknown but the known he was talking about.
About pornography...
In the 10(+ now?) years I have lived here, I have never encountered a single person reading pornographic media on the train. And for years I was riding the train very extensively. The worst were the pin-up model shots in the weekly news rags that are advertised to death on the train... And once I saw a guy who`d bought some porn magazines and they were visible through the plastic bag they were in. I`d be willing to guess that more than 99% of people think it is absolutely disgusting to read that sort of thing on a train, or in public at all really.
As for the magazine racks, I personally find it more disturbing to have overtly sexual advertising EVERYWHERE... You have to actually go to the section and pic up the magazine in Japan. In the US it seems like you`re bombarded with sexual imagery from pretty much every direction, even if it doesn`t actually make it to full out pornography.