Sex Ed Comics Available @ Not Your Mother's Meatloaf

That's the name of the blog you can visit by clicking the link embedded in this post's title. A couple of ladies have spear-headed an effort to produce comics on various topics related to the health and sexual well-being of young people. You can see their recent call for shorts and get PDF's of the comics they've already published online too.

What's Going on With Manga Right Now...

Tokyo has recently banned certain types of Manga that feature young girls doing sexual things. Or, another way of looking at it is that Japan is making it more difficult for minors to get their hands on this material.

The Beat has several links up with their own links, etc. See here and here and here.

I don't know enough about Manga or Japanese culture to make any informed statements, except to say that I'm not sure this legislation parallels directly the comics censorship efforts in the US from the 1940s and '50s. Yet. In terms of sex and nudity, these types of Manga texts at the center of this exigency are much more overt and graphic than any of those images in panels with supposedly subliminal vaginas that folks griped about back in the day.

"Subliminal Vaginas" -- that'd make a great name for a band, eh?