Porn and Hentai: Are they equivalent?

I'd like this discussion to be taken seriously.

So, you've all presumably heard that a guy has been sentenced to prison for five entire years. Simply because he had acquired three large carts full of cartoon-based porn, generally child-porn, however. It's also commonly known by the term "hentai." For those who are amazingly obsessed with anim?/manga should most likely remember the term.

Anyway, my main question is: Do you consider hentai and regular porn equally? Or are they just as worse as they appear?

Discuss.

Quote from Kenpari

I think that regular porn is worse than hentai. Hentai mainly consists of fictional characters, mostly anime/manga/video game related. Just plain porn is based more on real people. Child pornography is terrible, and illegal. Most child pornography is made against the child's will and not to mention is inhumane, unnecessary, and just straight-out nasty. Neither porn nor hentai or good things, but I do think that regular pornography is worse than hentai.

Your solution is seemingly logical, but it isn't completely. My opinion, based on the hard facts, will reveal how tight the actual looks are upon this.

The law enforces rules, we are guided by these rules. If we tend to break or take advantage of the rules, we'll will be punished eventually.

Hentai is basically just a sexual intercourse, as well as regular porn. The law does indeed consider them equally, as it were. Sex remains sex, whether it is actually drawn or not. Whether the character is actually fictional, that doesn't determine anything. The images contain sexual harrasment, you can be punished for that.

And also, as you mentioned yourself, child pornography is definitely socially unacceptable.

Quote from Kenpari

Yes, Child Pornography is punishable by law. I don't think Hentai and Pornography that's not of children should be punishable, which it's not. And yes, the law does consider Hentai and Regular Pornography equally, but I don't find Hentai as bad, as it is of fictional characters, rather than actual people.

That's correct, however...

Fictional characters are seemingly less worse, but they're actually not. A vagina remains a vagina, and a penis remains a penis. That's an undeniable fact.

Whether it is animated or realistic doesn't matter.