News Flash: Boys Like Porno
Oh noes!!! A father is shocked, shocked, that his son checked out dirty manga from the library (the titles aren’t mentioned, but from the picture of the book’s rear cover I can deduce it was Battle Club).
Seriously dude, your son is 12. Of course he wants to read porn. And sometimes you just can’t do anything about it. Probably the librarian just scanned the back when he checked it out and didn’t look at the cover, probably the kid hid it in a backpack so his parents wouldn’t see it, etc. etc. Shit like that happens; hell, what 12-year-old boy hasn’t surreptitiously read his dad’s tittie mags? I bet Mr. Rezabek did himself.
I don’t know anything about Battle Club, but maybe there is rape and bondage in it- which I wouldn’t want a kid to get the wrong idea about, but chalk it up to a lesson learned. Talk to him about it. Explain why rape and abuse is wrong (though I’d hope he already knows this). Keep a tighter rein on what he’s checking out for a while.
Or, I don’t know, you could threaten to get a lawyer. Though I don’t know what lawyer would be stupid enough to go up against the 1st Amendment and the library system. >sigh<
So has anyone actually read Battle Club? How bad is it, anyway?
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Yeah, and he turned out totally normal. 
Still, I can’t see Tokyopop publishing a series with bondage rape in it…that’s more Dark Horse’s style. I think the dad didn’t read the whole thing and misunderstood.
Yeah, that was my initial thought - ‘Tokyopop publishes porn?!?’
And not to beat on a dead horse (literally), but I’m reminded of the X-Files episode ‘Clyde Buckman’s Final Repose’, where Mulder’s death by autoerotic asphyxiation is foretold…
I remember during the show it was a big joke with fans that Mulder never slept in his bed, he was always seen sleeping on the couch…because his bed was covered in boxes of pornography, and he was too lazy to move them.
Then, in season 6, Mulder switched bodies with this guy, who went to Mulder’s apartment, and discovered it was true!
Omigod, that’s hilarious - I stopped watching around season 4 for some reason, but since I nabbed the big X-Files DVD box set I’ve been working my way back through - I just finished S3, so I’ll keep an eye out for that one…!
I can’t see Tokyopop publishing a series with bondage rape in it…that’s more Dark Horse’s style. I think the dad didn’t read the whole thing and misunderstood.
That, or it had a flash of breasts or panties. Not having read it, I can’t say what the problem was, but manga just has different standards. Upskirt panty shots are so common as to be unremarkable, and bare breasts happen all the time in Ranma 1/2 and occasionally in Inu-Yasha, which is a big hit among younger readers. I lean toward the misunderstood angle myself.
Fox Mulder likes porn - it can’t be all bad.