When I see stuff like hentai, I just laugh... I do not struggle with lust or anything whilst watching anything like that... saying that I don't seek it out to watch... only have seen it at a friends house... she is majorly into anything like this... anime, manga whatever the crap it is.

I agree with Matt and Munkey...I do believe nudity done tastefully is beautiful, not a horndog thing... its just to be admired.

We all are nakkid underneath our clothes... just some people need to reserve that only for their beloved

But alot of guys and gals struggle with being mature and controlled in their views of nudity and lust, thus must avoid things that they can twist into something that is sexual or could be implied as sexual.

A good test to see whether or not you should be doing something (and the Bible has no clear answer) is this:

1. Are you honering God by doing this?
2. Would you want your grandmother to see you doing this?

Japanese porn cartoons are meant to do the same thing as regular porn. I don't see any legitimate argument a Christian could have for watching it.

Naked art is slightly different, because in some cases it is not meant to be sexual (sometimes it is). However like people have said, if it causes you to sin, don't look at it.

My grandma wouldn't care.... sooooo you might insert " highly moral person close to you and would freak out if you knew they saw you watching it"

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The entire truth of this matter can be summed up into one statement:

If Hentai tempts you to lust, as with anything else which does, do not view it.

Defiling your mind with lust is extremely unhealthy and damaging spiritually. Hentai IS a form of pornography - which is intended to arouse and create lustful thoughts. If it causes sexual desire and lust do not watch it.
Also, for those reading this, don't go looking at it to see whether or not it tempts you - "testing" yourself against it, I suppose. Do not give temptation a chance.

Wean i found Christ i thew all my porn mags in the bin and did the switch from Real Porn to 3D Hentai, that was cool for a while but then i thort "yhear, this aint right". I think the main reson why i stoped was just so i can truthfully say "i dont download porn" but another good resone to stay away is just cos' its more perverce then the normal run of the mill dude bonks chik. I know personaly that porn can skrew with your opinion of women, Hentai whoudent be diffrent i imagine

What's sinful about images of women that aren't real?

I have the same views as Matt on this.

Being raised by German parents in an American culture has caused me to understand the two mindsets pretty well.

The European one.. much more "liberal" or natural with nudity and sex.

The American (Puritan) one... regularly over-emphasizes any form of nudity and sex.

Something that always made me laugh. even as a wee lad.. was my Mom was going out with the guy who would later be my step dad... he would totally trip out that it was not unusual for my Mom to be naked in her room and for myself or my brother to simply enter and talk to her while she was naked... neither one of use thinking anything about it. But, he as the American he is... would Not have it!!

Also, similarly with my Dad... if he had to change his clothes in a hurry or something, he wouldn't think twice about doing it right in front of his sons.. nor did we think anything about it either..

And yet when you tell Americans this they immediately start asking if you were molested or some such nonsense.. going back to the point I was making of how they over-emphasize nudity to a level that is uniquely American.

Come to think of it.. Americans do the same thing with alcohol.. they make it so Sacred by default.. by making the drinking age 21 and creating such strict laws about minors drinking in public or even at home... that it is no wonder when kids do turn 21 they start binge drinking themselves into oblivion.. because that simple thing like a beer was made so "sacred" by it's level of being forbidden.

Being raised by German parents... I had already been drinking for many years by the time I turned 21.. and if I really needed alcohol.. my dad would be glad to buy some for me. Probably the same kind of dad MAtt has.

Ummm, im no prude.. but I do not ever want to see my mum or dad nakkid... ... its just not something I want to have etched in my memory..... thats for them to keep for each other... gross o parental wobbly bits... ick.

Here's an interesting thought. I read a story on CNN a while back. They interveiwd this guy, who was a pedophile. But, he didn't want to be one, like he said he didn't know why he was, and he didn't want to be. He said he was a Christian, and he used prayer, and this to remain "pure." He talked about how he uses hentai versions of kids, called shota, as a healthy release. Now, religious or not, something like that CAN'T be a choice. Who the hell would CHOSE to be a pedo? So, here's this guy, doing his best to remain pure, but can't control his base urges, so he finds an outlet that doesn't harm kids. The guy was like 40-somthing, and he'd never had sex with anybody, and he said that he never would, beuase he doesn't want to hurt anybody. So, can it be ALL bad? Now I know, that someone could say, well it might incite someone to go rape a child. I say if you are gonna rape a kid, you were gonna do it anyway, cartoons or no. It's just like the metal/horror movies cause serial killers argument. It's all based o you. I've listened to some of the most "evil" metal in the world, and I've been watching horror movies since I was 11, and I never killed anybody, because I was raised in a moral, loving house, and I'm Christian. I say as long as the guy deosn't hurt a kid, you keep on abuseing yourelf to cartoons. More power to ya! lol Thoughts?

From what I can tell this Pornographic Anima or Manga. if someone is going to watch Porn why would they what to read or watch a cartoon? Just asking?