Kids shouldn't read yaoi from beginning because it contains porn.
You know what, japanese stories contains more weirds things like pedophiles, incest, rape, etc and thatcs kinda normalized there and no one scream like karen but you know what, their criminal record is lower that the west because they are smart enough
to differentiate between fiction and reality.
did I just get called a karen? lol. by kids I mean teenagers and young adults too. and it doesn’t matter if you can differentiate reality from fiction, you are what you consume… mere exposure = bad imagery that seeps into your subconscious.
not quite sure what that has to do with criminal records, though.
Even real adults (not only kids, teenagers, or young adult) in my opinion shouldn't normalized to read material that contains porn if I follow my logical sense because that seeps into people subconscious too, porn give negative effect on many things.
Btw, what should be normalized then in fiction? Unrealistic fiction with sugar coating story so people only live in unrealistic imagination? Many people read fiction to release their guilty pleasure.
You know what? I don’t care if including so many rape scenes is the author’s attempt to create a dark and edgy story with a revenge arc… It’s just fiction, yes, but it’s also media. Kids don’t need to be exposed to this kind of media, and yes EVEN if it’s their own choice to read such material. These kinds of manga/webtoons should not be normalized.