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No, really. Check it out here, especially Chapter Seven: Seduction of the Innocent.
Moral outrage aside, this really reminds me of Reefer Madness. Reefer is more addictive than heroin! It will make you into a murderer! A cannibal murderer! A cannibal rapist murderer!! Who will bite our children and turn them gay. GAY AND LIBERAL.
That said: Even I, who love to see the GAY everywhere, know that Bruce Wayne is not a crazy gay pedophile. I know that, while possibly damaging to the perception of how women handle danger, seeing Lois Lane chained to yet another pole will not turn me into a lesbian submissive. The X Men do not live in a crazy hippie free love commune. They're just superheroes, guys.
Some favorite quotes: "One of the stock mental aphrodisiacs in comic books is to draw girls' breasts in such a way that they are sexually exciting. Wherever possible they protrude and obtrude." (emphasis original)
Firstly, if you're a 12 year old boy, how is it possible to draw breasts so they aren't sexually exciting? Secondly, if you have breasts, you know how they protrude. They're convex. It happens. If you're trying to draw an anatomically correct woman, her breasts will protrude as opposed to extending concavely into her chest. On the other hand, women and men are both drawn exaggeratedly sexually in comics. No denying that. But the dudes all seem to have invisible penises--maybe from steroids? That'd be a good story line...
"There are men who have a desire to see undressed girls tied to posts or with their hands bound behind their backs or above their heads, or confined in chains...American children are given every opportunity to develop these psychopathic tendencies."
So light bondage is psychopathic now? No, liking the idea of light bondage is psychopathic. Lock up 3/4 of all men!
"A boy from a well-to-do family was referred to me...he and three other boys used to go to a candy store in the neighborhood where they ate ice cream cones, bought comic books, and talked big. One evening...they drove...to Broadway. [this passage is wordy] There they picked up a young prostitute and took her to the home of one of the boys whose parents were away. Two of them had intercourse with her and various sexual experiments were tried out, the girl being very co-operative. They paid her five dollars each. After that, all four went out with her int he car to drive her back to Broadway as they had promised. On the way...[t]hey stopped the car, pounced upon the girl and while one held her forcibly around the neck the others beat her unmercifully about the face and body. They went through her handbag and took out all her money...Then they left her at a subway station, with just enough money to pay her fare. This is comic-book stuff."
No, it's really not. It's proof that comic books are the old "violent video games" argument. These kids blamed their actions on video games. One of their mothers wrote in to Penny Arcade, a web comic devoted to games, violent and otherwise, basically (if you don't want to read her long letter) apologizing, saying the kid was a manipulative little shit who said the right thing at the right time to get himself out of trouble.
"Some of the ordinary comics have illustrations revealing crude sexual details if you look at them in a certain way."
All I have to say about that is if you want to play "find the vag" you'll have plenty of fodder for it. Vaginas, like the GAY, are everywhere.
"[A pre-pubescent prostitute] read about twenty comic books a day. Some of them she read over three or four times. After she saw the Sister Kenny movie she formed the ideal of becoming a nurse who cures the people. But one good movie could not prevail over hundreds of comic books." (emphasis original)
and
"Charles [a twelve year old male prostitute] read comic books...about ten or fifteen a week, about two a day."
Let me get this straight. Prostitutes read comic books. Therefore, comic books cause prostitution? Call the Department of Homeland Security! Drinking water causes terrorism!
"There are quite a number of obscure stores where children congregate, often in the back rooms, to read and buy secondhand comic books. The proprietors usually permit the children to spend a lot of time in their establishments and to pore over the comic books. In some parts of cities, men hang around these stores which are sometimes foci of childhood prostitution. Evidently comic books prepare the little girls well." (emphasis original)
Wait, what? Comic book stores are foci of child prostitution? Since there's no documentation for this in the article, I'm going to assume he's making it up. On the other hand, shut down the playgrounds and the elementary schools. Children congregating and having fun leads to pedophilia and prostitution!
"On an educational page in the same book [the Black Cat] gives good advice for violence as instruction for self-defense: Swing the upper part of your body forward while slamming the edge of your left hand against his larynx. The impact will knock him down. At least!"
So what, women are supposed to lie there and scream suggestively as men tie them up and fantasize about them? Shouldn't it be good that someone in comics is fighting against this tide of male depravity? No? We actually prefer our women docile? No shit.
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