>>8771
>still carry the ideological baggage of Protestant puritanism
This is exactly what I was thinking for awhile. I didn't want to directly point towards Christianity as the culprit, and I value its positive contributions to culture, but its puritanical outlook is a cancer that refuses to die. You phrased it as the Anglosphere, but are Catholics/Orthodox much different in this regard? Outside of religion, don't ideologies like communism operate in a similar way?

Regardless of how lurid music and casual discourse becomes, or how much "sexual liberation", is lauded, it's all superficial and the way people perceive things here says the same. People have said that loli isn't socially acceptable in Japan either and it's just "tolerated", but that's irrelevant. "Tolerance" in that form seems like common sense to me.

>it is still bare none the most free country in the world when it comes to artistic expression
Except genital censorship(which came from the west and 2-d artists barely follow), I'd say Japan is the most free. If somebody in the west actually made a game with loli in it, the media would go ballistic and the guys who made it would be fucked. I think that's what happened with Bernd und das Rätsel um Unteralterbach. Cultural censorship goes hand and hand with legal censorship.

>>8772
This is an abstract way of looking at it. I don't condone real cp. Not sure it anybody actually thinks in these terms or if porn is more than just slightly correlated with a sedentary lifestyle. Hedonism and productivity isn't mutually exclusive in my opinion.