The slow march to maturity continues
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elfsYesterday, Hef announced who his Playmate of the Year was going to be. It's been all over Yahoo, one of the "top stories" of the day. I see that it's dropped off by now, although the Australian swimsuit model with the serious case of cameltoe is still there. She's Sara Jean Underwood, Miss July 2006. There's a publicity photo of her at Fleshbot, but the site is probably not safe for work.
My reaction to seeing her was "Eww, she's too young to be a playmate, and I feel icky just being asked to think about her that way." It's a good thing Hef's too old to have sex (by his own admission), or I'd feel even more icked than usual.
I've been having a similar reaction to a lot of manga recently. I've gotten to the point where if an anthology's opening story features scat, assault, underage characters, stupid characters, absurdly enormous breasts, or bad art, it immediately gets rejected.
You know what else I can't stand about manga? The total paucity of positive gay male characters. It's as if the gay male manga artists have to set themselves apart from the rest of the manga universe by drawing all of their characters as Tom O' Finland bodies with enough hair to be gorillas.
Unfortunately, all that just about leaves me with Ishoku Dougen, who under the nom de plum Saigado has published a ton of great stuff. The man doesn't do rape, loli, or guro, but he does do straight stuff, gay stuff, bondage stuff, all with a light touch and with all the characters enjoying themselves. My favorite is still Chris Maniax, which has two cute characters from the video game King of Fighters boinking like mad, much to the regret of the female character who was hoping to bed one or the other.
Okay, so maybe I'm not that mature yet.
My reaction to seeing her was "Eww, she's too young to be a playmate, and I feel icky just being asked to think about her that way." It's a good thing Hef's too old to have sex (by his own admission), or I'd feel even more icked than usual.
I've been having a similar reaction to a lot of manga recently. I've gotten to the point where if an anthology's opening story features scat, assault, underage characters, stupid characters, absurdly enormous breasts, or bad art, it immediately gets rejected.
You know what else I can't stand about manga? The total paucity of positive gay male characters. It's as if the gay male manga artists have to set themselves apart from the rest of the manga universe by drawing all of their characters as Tom O' Finland bodies with enough hair to be gorillas.
Unfortunately, all that just about leaves me with Ishoku Dougen, who under the nom de plum Saigado has published a ton of great stuff. The man doesn't do rape, loli, or guro, but he does do straight stuff, gay stuff, bondage stuff, all with a light touch and with all the characters enjoying themselves. My favorite is still Chris Maniax, which has two cute characters from the video game King of Fighters boinking like mad, much to the regret of the female character who was hoping to bed one or the other.
Okay, so maybe I'm not that mature yet.
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Date: 2007-05-08 04:42 am (UTC)(ditto apologies)
The girl is too tan. Even next to the other PMOY and Hef-Ladies she's too tan. That farm of hers must have had tanning beds too.