I think we assume either lots of money, or near-bankruptcy to feed habits.
And yeah, that's kind of the thing.
I mean, look at Basara. Early volumes have the 17 year old hero stumbling across the 15 year old heroine while she's bathing in a hotspring. More than once. They're sometimes in the hotsprint together, and kiss there. (A couple times we could assume sex if we weren't told otherwise.) There are 2 sex scenes between them when they're 16 and 18. At one point, an adult male agrees to have sex with another man to protect his younger companions. Later, it flashes back to him when he was a slave and his master would rape him as a child. While none of these are "graphic," (as compared to other things) they do depict sex where one is a minor (by our standards) and rape.
In Samurai Deeper Kyo, the 16-year-old heroine regularly (especially in earlier volumes, less so when you reach the mid-teens) ends up with her cheast exposed, through no fault of her own. Usually, it because of the much older hero, whose favorite passtime is to cop a feel, usually by shoving his hand down the front of her kimono. (He can't help it. They're his favorite things.) They aren't having sex, but it's definitely sexual activity involving a minor.
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Date: 2008-10-15 07:34 pm (UTC)And yeah, that's kind of the thing.
I mean, look at Basara. Early volumes have the 17 year old hero stumbling across the 15 year old heroine while she's bathing in a hotspring. More than once. They're sometimes in the hotsprint together, and kiss there. (A couple times we could assume sex if we weren't told otherwise.) There are 2 sex scenes between them when they're 16 and 18. At one point, an adult male agrees to have sex with another man to protect his younger companions. Later, it flashes back to him when he was a slave and his master would rape him as a child. While none of these are "graphic," (as compared to other things) they do depict sex where one is a minor (by our standards) and rape.
In Samurai Deeper Kyo, the 16-year-old heroine regularly (especially in earlier volumes, less so when you reach the mid-teens) ends up with her cheast exposed, through no fault of her own. Usually, it because of the much older hero, whose favorite passtime is to cop a feel, usually by shoving his hand down the front of her kimono. (He can't help it. They're his favorite things.) They aren't having sex, but it's definitely sexual activity involving a minor.