>>158190
japan is on the opposite side of the planet, so close enough lol
but really, japanese junior idol pics are basically no worse than anything you'd find in a modern swimsuit catalog

sure, it's not that hard to get why doing all this shit was banned, but it's also not that hard to get why it wasn't for so long either ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌
in particular, in the US, I'm not sure a lot of what's being sold in the shops shown here would have failed the Dost criteria when it was produced if someone went to trial for it lol; ain't a lawyer though, and it wouldn't be too hard to convince a jury of the criteria anyway
it'd be even easier to do so nowadays, since they can't really produce it anymore

is it distasteful? yes lol, you're basically selling to a large demographic of people who'd reenact their favorite rape doujin on the girl if they could, and the majority of them would be jacking off to the pics anyway (a prosecutor could use that fact to fail at least one of the Dost criteria)

is it immoral? it's like 99% "cute pictures of young girls in clothing they would wear in a public setting (even if that setting is the beach)", although there have been a few releases that have strayed pretty far from that and thus are closer to actual softcore porn, and thus wouldn't be particularly moral

honestly, it still feels weird seeing the shift though; JI stuff used to be enough of a big shrug that they were available on sankaku complex's idol booru yeeeears ago and no one really gave a shit, and they took all them down when the writing was on the wall

if there's one thing to remind you the past is really different, onpu in ojamajo doremi did this kind of work and it comes up at least once lol
and then there's one episode in creamy mami where IIRC a false Mami gets very risque pictures printed in a magazine, and this is shown in a very for-kids show lol