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[meganbmoore]

Remember the Iowa collector who was arrested for buying obscene manga from Japan?  Apparently it was yaoi manga.

Legally, I'm not sure there's a leg to stand on unless there was shouta in the collection, but I wonder if this means they're going to start looking at other licensed manga, especially since the androgynous figures were apparently part of it.

ETA:  I'm also very curious about what made the postmaster suspicious about this guy in the first place.  Was it random, typecasting,  or something about him in particular, whether behavir or problems/accusations/convictions in the past?

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[neuclear.livejournal.com]

I think there has to be something more to this, like maybe the person looking through the parcel may have thought the two teenaged boys in the manga or something were infact twelve? I've seen it happen before with my gen manga--so I don't think there's ever going to be a full out raid, perhaps something about the man's personality maybe? He may have a history of pedophilia and this is icing on the cake?

At any rate, I don't think it'll lead to any full scale raids...otherwise, almost more than half of LJ, as well as many people who attend Cons at this point in time are in fact doomed...