Questioning Age Ratings

I don't think age restrictions are particularly useful, but they are there for a reason. When talking about mature topics, it is important to take into account the maturity of the individual, which is hard to assess. Children may also hear things from their classmates if not from their parents, older siblings, etc. However... When I see 8 yr-olds c......   2 reply

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I really think that this varies from person to person. I remember reading my first explicit manga at around age 9 or 10. It was more of a shoujo than a hentai but there was still some pretty steamy stuff. By that age, I already had a general idea of what sex was because I found my older cousin's stash of porn (but that's a totally different story h......   reply

Personally I think we should definitely be a little more open about sexuality. We should definitely talk to kids around the time they reach age 12 and are starting to enter puberty about sexuality, safe sex, consent, all that stuff. We should also let kids know around that age what pornography is, and how it's not realistic and you shouldn't see th......   reply

90% of the yaoi mangas depict unhealthy relationships and wrong practices. also its so wrong for someone to learn about lgbt+ people from these mangas because 99% of the time theyre extremely transphobic,biphobic and believe it or not homophobic. it makes people fetishize and objectify gay people soo much. i know it because 3 of my close friends do......   3 reply

I am a mother to 3 (ages 6,8,11). I am obsessed with yaoi and my kids know i enjoy reading manga where boys kiss boys. But as a mother, i don't think i would allow my oldest to view such material. Although i don't think i will hold him off on these until 18, but 11 is too young. I don't understand kids now who are like 12 watching hentai, yaoi and ......   2 reply

My parents never taught me about anything sexual on their own account. They were forced to give me a one sentence definition of the basic topic because of Glee (that's also how I found out about the LGBT community). After that, they left me to figure things out for myself. I learned a lot of stuff through books and the Internet. I realize that man......   1 reply

Well, there are surprisingly a lot of people that started reading yaoi and other adult stuff when they were around 12 years old. So I think it's fine for those under 18 to read sexuall materials. As long as you know right from wrong and real from unreal, and keep it separate from your real life.   2 reply

I think it's only ok when you are 14,15 and so on.   reply

I began reading very explicit romance novels when I was eleven years old. So I'm the last person who should judge! However, when kids and teenagers see porn - and I'm not just talking about manga, comics, and books - they're seeing an idealized and often violent version of sex. In many yaoi books, rape is okay as long as the two main c......   1 reply