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anime is art is sexual should it stay that way?
Dec 10, 2025 9:17 AM
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or you think art like anime should be more philosophical instead of being erotic art? i voted often and goon evening
Dec 10, 2025 9:32 AM
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Several people argue that all art is erotic. Including people who say woman goon to books and words.
Philosophy can be sexual stimulating too too. Sapiosexual people exist. So, there is someone gooning even to what someone considers sacred and SFW.
Given that, anime should stay the it is. Or improve to the levels of animation the best anime in the 10s had.

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Dec 10, 2025 9:35 AM
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Sasori56483 said:
Philosophy can be sexual stimulating too too. Sapiosexual people exist.


i heard of this people but im still in denial a little but ye as they say different strokes for different folks
Dec 10, 2025 9:51 AM
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And what is wrong with sexualized artwork? Nothing I say.....
I have approximately 1 terabyte of anime on my computer.
Dec 10, 2025 9:55 AM
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It should vary: from something "serious", "mature", even dark, to something silly, funny, cringe etc etc.
Dec 10, 2025 9:59 AM
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Several people argue that all art is erotic. Including people who say woman goon to books and words.
Philosophy can be sexual stimulating too too. Sapiosexual people exist. So, there is someone gooning even to what someone considers sacred and SFW.
Given that, anime should stay the it is. Or improve to the levels of animation the best anime in the 10s had.
Sasori56483 said:
Sapiosexual people exist

Judging by what I see online, some folks (I mean articles I don't want to check) are skeptical about this orientation and think it's fake, "pretentious".
Dec 10, 2025 10:06 AM
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I prefer anime with sex-related content, including romance.
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Dec 10, 2025 10:12 AM
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Something being sexual doesn't make it not art and if you restrict what art can be made then it isn't really art in the same way if expression is limited.
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Dec 10, 2025 10:46 AM
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Nah it's fine as being "sexual" I don't want my anime charcters look less pretty for same of artistic vision or whatever.
Dec 10, 2025 11:23 AM
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Leaving anime aside,

Whether art is sexual is a superficial question.
If the question arises from emotion, “Certain types of artworks are erotic.” That's the answer.

One also could say, “Certain types of art are perverse,” but art dislikes the term ‘perverse.’
Art and perversion are not the same one with two faces. They are individual accomplices who use each other.
Art constantly seeks to break through its own boundaries, while perversion schemes to gain acceptance and carve out a pleasant place for itself in a society's margin.
When art is pointing to ‘perverse,’ it would be called by the alias ‘deviant.’ Remember this.
Dec 10, 2025 12:01 PM

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It feels like arguing whether a buffet should serve more quinoa salad or greasy fries. I mean why not both? Should the buffet managers listen to the quinoa lobby or the fry faithful? No. Their job is to watch what disappears from the trays and make more of that. The quinoa salad will always be there for the food critics to photograph. The fries will forever restock because they pay the bills. And my only job as a patron is to grab a plate, load it with whatever bizarre combination makes my night better.
Dec 10, 2025 12:41 PM

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Several people argue that all art is erotic. Including people who say woman goon to books and words.
Philosophy can be sexual stimulating too too. Sapiosexual people exist. So, there is someone gooning even to what someone considers sacred and SFW.
Given that, anime should stay the it is. Or improve to the levels of animation the best anime in the 10s had.
@Sasori56483

I think they don't get the difference between aesthetic and erotic, tho. Drawing an aesthetically pleasing character isn't inherent erotic. It can be, sure, but it doesn't have to. They can used the same way like a beautiful scenery is used.
Dec 10, 2025 1:10 PM
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I clicked on this thread to see if there are naughty anime pics in here. There is none. Sad.

I'm just kidding. Probably against the rules. XD

I think anime as a medium should explore both sexual and nonsexual topics. The strength of anime might be due to being able to tackle almost any topic it wants to tackle.
Dec 10, 2025 2:13 PM
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I clicked on this thread to see if there are naughty anime pics in here. There is none. Sad.

I'm just kidding. Probably against the rules. XD

I think anime as a medium should explore both sexual and nonsexual topics. The strength of anime might be due to being able to tackle almost any topic it wants to tackle.
@thepotatoprince soft porn aka ecchi pix are allowed i think
Dec 10, 2025 2:25 PM

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Not everything needs to be ecchi, but there is no reason not to make the characters attractive.
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Dec 10, 2025 2:34 PM
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Art is about state of mind. It can be, and is, anything that the mind can concieve. Asking "is it X or is it Y" is therefore always meaningless as it is both, neither, and everything else at the same time.
Dec 10, 2025 2:36 PM

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I think they don't get the difference between aesthetic and erotic, tho. Drawing an aesthetically pleasing character isn't inherent erotic. It can be, sure, but it doesn't have to. They can used the same way like a beautiful scenery is used.
@Tressym Yes, you can say that, but they say the beautiful scenery, we like it because of arousal. And their arguments are like when people say the neural mechanism that brings happiness after a sexual acitvity is the same of eating chocolate, or playing a video game, or seeing that beautiful scenery, or the rat pulling the lever but with a lot of art design psychology literature degree words mixed in.


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Dec 10, 2025 3:24 PM

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Obviously anime art is not always erotic, but it often is, which is fine by me. Also it doesn't need to have nudity or sex to be erotic. It can be erotic because of a pose or gaze, or other moe/fetish elements. And I don't think having a fetish is a bad thing or needs to be demonized.
Dec 10, 2025 3:50 PM
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...You got me.

Damn. I was excited there. XD
Dec 10, 2025 3:53 PM

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@Tressym Yes, you can say that, but they say the beautiful scenery, we like it because of arousal. And their arguments are like when people say the neural mechanism that brings happiness after a sexual acitvity is the same of eating chocolate, or playing a video game, or seeing that beautiful scenery, or the rat pulling the lever but with a lot of art design psychology literature degree words mixed in.


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@Sasori56483 How dare you! On my Christian anime forum!
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Dec 11, 2025 12:04 AM
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Of course it should stay that way, the waifu pillow industry needs it! 😍
Dec 11, 2025 10:50 AM
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It feels like arguing whether a buffet should serve more quinoa salad or greasy fries. I mean why not both? Should the buffet managers listen to the quinoa lobby or the fry faithful? No. Their job is to watch what disappears from the trays and make more of that. The quinoa salad will always be there for the food critics to photograph. The fries will forever restock because they pay the bills. And my only job as a patron is to grab a plate, load it with whatever bizarre combination makes my night better.
@Impala This, this right here. Whatever I am hungry for at THE MOMENT. Anyway, the act of creating art, or of writing, is frequently sexual in & of, itself. So this doesn't bother me at all.

Dec 11, 2025 4:28 PM
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hell to the yeah, it's awesome isn't it
Dec 11, 2025 4:34 PM
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Humans are inherently sexual so everything is, really.
Dec 11, 2025 4:48 PM

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It shouldn't be inherently anything. "Anime" is an incredibly broad term that most use to define "any animation originating from Japan". Therefore it should be expected to cover a vast range of themes.
Some of you never watched Bakugan Battle Brawlers on TeleToon in 2008 and it shows.
Dec 11, 2025 5:13 PM

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Sex is a driving factor in media to all demographics, and it is a big part of the identity of anime.
Agreed
Dec 13, 2025 5:41 PM

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I don't understand the question. "Anime is art is sexual should it stay that way?" makes zero sense...
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Dec 13, 2025 5:45 PM

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Well if you can have hot sexy anime girls, it would a be a crime not to implement them!

But regardless of that, anime can be great even if they dont have the sex elements in it.
Dec 13, 2025 7:13 PM

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