Texas Anime Ban a.k.a. Protestant Reformation 2.0

Yesterday on Labor Day, Texas began enforcing SB-20.

This is not about protecting children or youth. It is not even about anime.

It's about control.

Control someone’s sexuality and you control them.

Anime is just an easy target. The no-porn-viewing-for-under-18s law was also a good-sounding idea that broke ground on censorship of information that youth can see. The possibilities are endless.

Texas is a welcoming launch site for these laws. Spreading it, and forcing it on states that don’t even have these laws. Much like the 1975 California law on flame retardants. All states were forced to have flame retardant furniture. Flame retardants were sold, profits were made, while nature got polluted and people and animals got sick.

We saw how gender ideology affected the youth. Now everyone sees how stupid this artificially-created movement was. But the damage is done and the money is made. Pharmaceutical companies, psychologists, and insurance companies all made a profit. Meanwhile, vulnerable kids, many lesbian girls, became sick and infertile from these drugs. They lost their health, sexual function, fertility, and became lifelong patients.

Now people are wiser to the dangers of online influence on youth. So there has to be something new, right? Someone sees an opportunity to fuck up more young lives when the social pendulum is swinging more conservative. Conveniently, when the world is distracted by war, money, and housing. There is a new war on art and sex.

Who has what to gain from attacking art and sex? Why are teenagers having safe, private, no-contact routes of sexual expression taken away from them?

Sexual development of children is the realm of natural law, sensible legal law, religion, culture, and storytelling. Not spooky interests. Let a culture decide what is and what is not appropriate for their youth. Most parents would rather their teen read a dirty comic than experiment before a lifelong relationship. Youth must be protected, but stunting them is a different form of abuse.

My partner’s teen years were spent at the library, raised by old-school librarians. The books recommended by the sensible and caring older ladies were relevant, helpful, and character-building. Now, these meaningful books, American classics and manga alike, are probably listed as “child pornography.” My childhood books of dairies of real young American women on the Oregon Trail are probably “child pornography.” Romeo and Juliet is probably now “child pornography.”

...Who will be allowed to tell teenage love stories?

Who will control the hearts and minds and groins of the next generation of the world’s youth?

Who has to gain?

Asya Carrino