UK: Manga: "Gateway Drug" to Crime

[Andromeda18_]

All I can say about this is, "give me a break!" Reading manga does not lead to crime, and I haven't heard of anyone committing any crimes after reading violent or hentai manga. And their parents should already be aware of their child's reading habits, not to mention that most manga dealers know better than to sell hentai or violent manga to youths.

Any comment?

I think you're absolutely right! What's with our society and this tendency to blame violence on TV, video games, anime, manga, books, etc?! As if violence hadn't been around since a time when none of that existed. Groups of parents have been saying the Harry Potter books turn children into wannabe witches (as if that was a bad thing) and they've even tried suing J. K. Rowling! What is wrong with people?! I've watched violent movies ever since I was young, I read some pretty violent manga, play video games, etc, yet I don't feel like going around killing people or hurting them. And since when is sex a bad thing?! Why is it that people keep thinking that watching anything sexual is going to turn their children into some perverted monsters? Jeez! They're the ones who turn sex into a bad thing. If they didn't treat it like tabu it wouldn't be tabu, children wouldn't end up repressed adults. It's like those parents who find some porn magazines hidden somewhere in their child's bedroom and get all mad at the kid as if he had done something seriously bad! That really makes me angry!