Boys’ Love Manga for Girls: Paedophilic, Satirical, Queer Readings and English Law

Abstract

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Male‒male marriage in Sinophone and AnglophoneHarry Potter danmeiandslash

“…However, on the world stage, copyright laws are notoriously complex (Schwabach, 2009) and perhaps more pressing concerns in relation to slash and danmei are legal restrictions on sexually explicit material. Depending on content, male-male erotica can be illegal in some Anglophone jurisdictions, although the most problematic tends to be visual material with young-looking protagonists (Madill, 2015). In Mainland China, while the law remains mute on the subject, homosexuality is frowned-upon socially and often censored in mainstream media.…”

Young people, online fandom and the perils of child pornography legislation in Australia

“…Although widespread, the practice has so far largely been overlooked by legal and cultural studies commentary on child pornography law. Yet, due to changes in the scope of this legislation across Australia, North America and Europe, so that it now captures manipulated photographs of real persons as well as images of fictitious, non-existent persons, young people’s fan activities have been rendered vulnerable to prosecution by these laws, which also make the investigation of these fandoms by academics problematic and at times impossible (Galbraith, 2017; Madill, 2015; McLelland, 2012, 2017a, 2017b).…”

“…In treating fictitious cartoon characters as ‘persons’ under child pornography laws, Australian law is consistent with legislation across other commonwealth jurisdictions. These include the 2009 Coroners and Justice Act, 383 subsection (8) in the United Kingdom (Johnson, 2010; Madill, 2015) and the 2001 judicial decision in R v Sharpe in Canada (Johnson, 2006). In the United States, where First Amendment rights have complicated the expansion of these laws to an extent (Byrne Hessick, 2016: 61–2; Coleman, 2009), the 2003 PROTECT Act Section 1466A also criminalizes possession of ‘a visual depiction of any kind including … a cartoon’ that depicts ‘a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct’ that is also ‘obscene’ (April, 2012: 250–3; see also Eiland, 2009).…”

‘Blood, guts and Bambi eyes’: Urotsukidoji and the Transcultural Reception and Regulation of Anime

“…Furthermore, a stronger deconstruction of the orientalist critique of transcultural audience-text relations can be found in studies of anime fan cultures in the west. A growing number of in-depth studies examining fans' complex and nuanced appreciation for Japanese media over the last twenty years have revealed a relationship that is far removed from the negative and simplistic assumptions made by the 'mainstream' press and BBFC examiners' reports, circa 1992 (Napier 2007;Denison 2011;Madill 2015). This article contends, then, that though the hyperbolic character of 'mainstream' newspaper articles and BBFC examiners' reports clearly facilitates orientalist readings, as do some of the marketing strategies employed by Manga and Tartan, such a critique becomes problematic when employed indiscriminately to theorise, by extension, the transcultural audiences for Japanese media.…”