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New Poll - 18+ Warnings
This poll came from our member comel. You can interpret what "18+" and "adult" mean (sex, violence, nudity, gore, etc).

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: Cliffhangers
Choices:
I love the suspense! - votes: 1331 (10.4%)
A necessary evil - votes: 6050 (47.1%)
Why'd you have to end right there? I hate you!!!!! - votes: 4639 (36.1%)
I hate them all - votes: 830 (6.5%)
There were 12850 total votes.
The poll ended: October 8th 2011

A necessary evil, yet so many hate you!
Posted by lambchopsil on 
October 8th 10:44am
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» That2ndGuy on October 8th, 2011, 2:03pm

People listen to these warnings? Hell, I was surfing porn at age 10. Some of that hentai goes pretty damn far though. Like loli-futa scat lol. Warnings for those should be followed. Violence and gore isn't so bad, since it's all drawn. Interwebs have dulled my emotions -_-

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» Kalamity501 on October 8th, 2011, 3:03pm

Lol loli-futa-scat. I can take pretty much anything, ANYTHING, except scat. OH and perhaps the presence of extra body parts on characters, each of which is disproportionately engorged.
Scat is just wrong. I can't even walk the dog because of my aversion of excrement.
Loli futa yum

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» thevampirate on October 8th, 2011, 9:33pm

you like guro and enlargement? i know many people dont like NTR, loli, scat, futa etc. so tags are nice.

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» Kalamity501 on October 9th, 2011, 10:08am

Guro not really, Scat a definite no. Everything else is workable most of the time.
But yes, Tags are so necessary when browsing. Except I find myself always previewing content that providers explicitly warn viewers that it may traumatize them forever. Curiosity killed the cat?

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» Naeko on October 21st, 2011, 5:45pm

>People listen to these warnings? Hell, I was surfing porn at age 10.

And you hit the nail on the head. That problem of porn being available means it will be illegally accessed by minors. The republicans in past three republican presidential campaigns have accused the democrats of being too tolerant on pornography and other illegal activities in the media such as guro, beastiality, and child porn which is essentially true. The democrats left it to the parents to take care of the children, but that didn't seem to be enough, so the conservatives will eventually pass more stringent laws to protect the children from porn that depicts illegal activities such as minors having sex, guro, beastiality, and scat. The first attempts during the part of Bush Jr's first term when the republicans had control of House, Senate, and Presidency let them ram through version after version that was struck down by the Supreme Court until a much watered down version was allowed to become the Protect Act.. That successful version would have been the baseline for more attempts to raise the bar, but the republicans lost control of the house and senate due to the bad economy and various fake shortages during the first term (fake electricity crisis, fake food distribution crisis, fake shortage on cereals, etc). **note: "cereals" refers to the material commodity and not breakfast cereal which is but one of the smaller uses of the cereal commodity.

The republican-created ACTA treaty has been signed by Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and others. More will sign later. That means new laws can be written to better support ACTA's provisions as additional analysis of situations warrant. Also, prior court decisions such as fair use precedents can now be re-tried if they are used by the defense in an ACTA case. ACTA criminalizes copyright infringment on the internet including downloading OR possession of the copy,

That means that that virtually all of the hentai manga and doujin porn sites will disappear as they are reported by anti-porn activists or your ex (friend, spouse, significant other) to law enforcement. Known users might also be investigated. That's because virtually all the scanlations are copyright violations. There is no need to prove it is a violation because ACTA makes it a criminal situation if you do not have express written and signed permission in advance. It's not that big a deal as it's similar to driving a car without proof of insurance or a drivers license. You left your wallet at home and so you dont have the proof on you. The officer cites you for the criminal violations and you pay the fines. It'll be about a year and a half yet because the presidency 2012 has to be settled.

Voldemort 2012. Choose the lesser evil.

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» LinkMcCloud on October 8th, 2011, 2:27pm

Those of us over age will prolly admit to reading it before, and those under age will prolly lie. Then again, this is the internet, so there'll be a disturbing level of admittedness.

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» deadphoenix on October 8th, 2011, 5:35pm

Ok, I never checked it, if it had a 18+ warning, so I've got really no idea if I watched 18+ material when I was underage or not I just wanted the stuff that I wanted( so I guess it is). Well, in my country they aren't so strict about those rules, it was normal to ignore 16+ warnings (even on school). O yeah, the gore violence and nutidity (with exception of sex) have the 16+ label. And vulgair language is 12+ rated and also allowed on normal television broadcasts (unlike the usual *peep* in the made in USA, and other countries that forbid vulgar language).

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» shinshuu on October 8th, 2011, 6:41pm

Having an 18+ warning is basically a calling for people to read it. People don't tend to avoid stuff that have these type of warning, steading they'll just read it to see if it suit their taste. Think of it, a kid will most likely check it out due to curiosity then judge it from there.

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» auriga on October 8th, 2011, 7:46pm

I was already past 18 when I started reading manga... Where's the option for that? XD

But yeah, don't really pay attention to adult warnings save for when I come across the *ahem* more "exotic" stuff as That2ndGuy mentioned.

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» Axlish on October 9th, 2011, 6:26am

Yeah, just like a good chunk of existing yaoi fangirls, I was young when I got into yaoi. So I even bought a yaoi manga before I was actually allowed to. Felt awesome to get away with something I wasn't supposed to get. n__n

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» kadajuu on October 9th, 2011, 11:07am

lol, yeah I started young too. though instead of trying to get away with it, I was too much of a coward and made my older sister buy the 16+ ones for me, hehe...

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» uzumakiwalid on October 9th, 2011, 7:39am

did the warning really stop people from getting inside the site? trust me, curiosity will win over your cautious thinking. people access the site because they knew what are they want to see. Hell, i'm not even 18 when i first access those kind of site. though i do like futa and lolis (both of them are massive plus of course), i don't particularly hate scat/gore unless the fore mentioned doujin/manga are featuring scat/gore to extreme level (even both are included, yuck!).

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» mattai on October 9th, 2011, 9:14am

Who actually avoids adult material until they're 18. I hit and finished puberty looong before then, and after that point, you start getting needs that just aren't fulfilled by pg13 material

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» Pacific.Mint on October 9th, 2011, 6:50pm

I am honestly curious. What are these needs you speak of? Is it what I'm thinking?

Oh yeah, ignore my username.

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» mattai on October 10th, 2011, 9:15am

Probably, yes.

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» brigee88 on October 9th, 2011, 9:57am

I don't think I read any 18+ stuff as a teen. I don't really read 18+ stuff now (almost 23.) I read older teen stuff sometimes and some mature manga but I don't like porn, gore, or extreme violence. I would read stuff that wasn't aimed at me when i was younger i honestly wish i hadn't. :/

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» brigee88 on October 9th, 2011, 10:02am

I actually filter out Yuri, Hentai, Yaoi, & Ecchi. (Though i do read ecchi and smut sometimes, but i'll avoid anything explicit.)

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» Pacific.Mint on October 9th, 2011, 6:52pm

I am like you too. I don't like graphically explicit material. The closest to real nudity I ever read was love scenes, but they are portrayed as very romantic instead of just plain gratifying explicit.

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» dreamer00013 on October 9th, 2011, 10:10am

Adult warnings are necessary, because if your everyday twelve-year-old naruto-fan checks out a hentai not knowing what hentai actually means, or yaoi/yuri, heck, even shota or loli, it's not good at all.
A warning is there so you know: "Oh, I'm not supposed to read it. And there's a good reason for it" Sometimes you start reading a mature manga and can't stand it, but then you try it when you are older. And you start loving it. I'm the same.
But haha, I was still below 18 when I picked up my first Adult-Mangas. So who cares, underage kids should try slowly. First read some shounen/shoujo, then some mature, then adult, etc.
So kiddies, check out your genres. You don't want to pick up some yaoi and find out what's in there ^^

[Naruto can be replaced by any shounen manga. One Piece or Bleach, Psyren or something else, I don't care. The same with yaoi.]

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» shinshuu on October 12th, 2011, 7:16am

hoever that still mean you read 18+ manga when you're underage.

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» dreamer00013 on October 14th, 2011, 3:10pm

Jep. And heck, just by being 18 years old, you are an adult? You are mature? From one day to another? What a joke ^^
18+ is just a guideline for me. Nothing more, nothing less.
Of course that's only for mental matters, not for things concerning your body: You should wait with consuming alcohol and such stuff until your body can withstand it. That's my opinion at least. ^^ Think of it as you like, I freakin' don't care.

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» Milleniummaster18 on October 9th, 2011, 10:15am

I have a hard time believing that nobody has at least peeked into 18+ material before they were 18. Granted, you don't READ it, but still.

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» sarablack10 on October 14th, 2011, 7:01am

Oh, were we supposed to listen to those? 'o.o Anyway! I think warnings are forever needed because, even though they won't quite stop curious people, they will stop people who do not like mature/yaoi/yuri/etc from wasting their time and reading something "oh, this warning says its yaoi. next manga.."

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