Never going to understand the reason behind censoring some parts, where the whole picture is definitely "not safe". :P

Japanese law restricting explicit genitalia, so for that reason, Japanese doujin companies (dlsite for example) prefer not to get into trouble over it and enforce that restriction.

zR7JfsP33S said:
Never going to understand the reason behind censoring some parts, where the whole picture is definitely "not safe". :P

thanks to americans during occupation of japan after ww2

S17 said:
Japanese law restricting explicit genitalia, so for that reason, Japanese doujin companies (dlsite for example) prefer not to get into trouble over it and enforce that restriction.

Oh, allrighty, well, too bad it ruins most of these arts. Anyways, thanks for clarifying that for me... :D

RyuZU said:
thanks to americans during occupation of japan after ww2

That's urban legend. Here's the history:

Japan's obscenity law, Article 175 was introduced in the 1907 revision of the Penal Code. That code was left nearly untouched by the Occupation and is still in effect.

https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/hourei/data/PC.pdf

The rather pointless mosaic censorship seen in Japanese pornography today stems from a series of decisions involving the so-called "Pink" film genre of soft-core erotic films that exploded in Japan in the '60s. The screening of the 1962 film The Market of the Flesh was stopped on the grounds that it violated the obscenity law, but it was never prosecuted, and it was allowed to be re-released with the obscene parts removed. This basically set the legal precedent that censorship was enough to avoid prosecution.

Ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/4pss4u/why_is_porn_in_japan_censored/

Detailed commentary by: https://www.reddit.com/user/t-o-k-u-m-e-i/

For ASMR covers, censorship is optional. Sometimes they provide uncensored images (post #359655 as example), of course by resizing or cropping them.