When Sally Mann photographed her children in the nude, it caused a stir. The efforts can also run into subconscious racism. When it comes to child nudity, people’s efforts to avoid anything that can be construed as pornography can make it pornography. The argument doesn’t make any sense, anyway. The arguments typically fall on the idea that male breasts cannot nurse (actually they can with a little medical help). I’m of the stance that either both can go shirtless or neither can go shirtless. In American society, there’s a long-standing double standard: boys are able to go shirtless without controversy. “Emmett and the White Boy” by Sally Mann. We are more aware she isn’t wearing a shirt with the light blocking out her chest. Once we censor Riko, her nudity becomes nakedness. Nakedness involves the awareness of being seen by other, and it’s associated with voyeurism, humiliation, vulnerability, or shame. Her expression of hapiness and her open pose expresses an unawareness of her nudity. In the original, you see a slight bulge of her budding breasts, but the context and her pose doesn’t make this sexual. Censorship implies there is something wrong or taboo about whatever is being censored. In the unedited scene, Riko expresses innocent joy in her pose, but as soon as I censored the scene with the white light streak, the scene loses its innocence. Let’s look at a still from one of the scenes, the original and one that I’ve censored using a common censoring method in anime. Yet, because she is under age, her nudity causes a problem for many people. However, the scenes are not sexual, and they are already censored by her long hair. Riko, a 12-year-old girl, appears in these scenes without a shirt. This becomes particularly thorny when dealing with child characters.Ī few scenes of Made in the Abyss has caused a stir. In fact, censorship can make an innocent scene sexual. Ironically, censorship methods draw more attention to these parts. Perhaps the most common censorship involves the animators simply not drawing the nipples of guys and girls.
A lady’s long hair stick to her nipples as if they are made of glue while the rest of her hair flutters in the breeze. Streaks of white light or darkness slash across character’s “naughty” bits. Censorship of anime nudity isn’t subtle (As you can guess, I’m going to discuss nudity and include images some may find troubling).
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