(11-06-2014, 11:14 PM)Jana Wrote:(11-06-2014, 09:47 PM)allgivenover Wrote:(11-06-2014, 09:36 PM)Mae Wrote: -- Random factoid I discovered on the internet: some "dating sim" games and "hentai comics" feature characters that are under 18; in their country of origin they're legal but in order for these items to be sold to other countries, localization teams change dialogues and bios to make the characters fit the regions they're selling to so consumers don't run afoul of child pornography laws.
No, they really don't in the United States at least. We have this thing called the first ammendment that criminalizing this would violate.
As for your random fact, it's because virtual images have since been criminalized, but not written words, no one is talking about images here.
As someone who's spoken with localizers before, I'm afraid I have to say that you're wrong on this one. Character ages do often get changed to over 18 before a work featuring, say, high school girls can be officially released in the US.
Again, this is in the case of IMAGES, not written portrayals. If it applied to writing then several of the books on my shelf would land me in jail.Â
Seriously I cannot believe you all think that a written portrayal can be criminalized in this way. Whether two adults collude to make it happen or one writes it on their own. I'm really kind of floored. Go pick up the first ASoIaF book in a bookstore and flip to the part where it goes on in detail on several occasions about a 13 year old Daenarys enjoying sex with Khal Drogo and tell me that two consenting adult Rpers are going to get in trouble for writing about underage encounters. You can read it right in the store!
