Oh-- the aforesaid connection would be that even if those contraceptive practices weren't typical for Japan in that era, Kenshin theoretically might've still known about and practiced them because of some sort of Western influence in his background, such as whatever motivated him to construct crosses for people's graves. However, that sort of handwaving within the narrative frame is pretty speculative, esp. if there's no clear sign of character intention for the money-shots to be contraceptive in nature, rather than just the aesthetic decision of the doujinka.
Semi-similarly, there are no naked crotch shots of him in either the manga or the anime. With doujinshi, anything goes, so there may well be some which portray him as a dickgirl in excruciating anatomical detail. Well, more likely the anatomical detail would be somewhat obscured with black boxes or strategic blurs.
(I have yet to figure out what the specific censorship taboos are; I'm not really sure they're consistent across the genre. The specific point of intromittive contact usually gets blurred/boxed out, as does the fount of ejaculation; pre-ejaculatory ooze seems to be okay, but with the example that comes to mind, there was an (imho) oddly-placed blur along the bottom of the glans, I suppose to censor the rolled-back foreskin. Or at least I assume Kenshin has one; while circumcision wasn't traditional, the custom was to keep the foreskin rolled back, decreasing its visual obviousness-- which would be decreased even further during erection, or so I gather from online sources (never having seen an actual foreskin in the flesh). Also, there's that pesky question of whether he did have some sort of Christian influence in his childhood; I have no idea whether the Japanese crypto-Christians practiced circumcision, though it would've been a dangerous giveaway during most of the Shogunate, when converts were executed as a matter of policy.)
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on 2006-08-02 04:14 am (UTC)Semi-similarly, there are no naked crotch shots of him in either the manga or the anime. With doujinshi, anything goes, so there may well be some which portray him as a dickgirl in excruciating anatomical detail. Well, more likely the anatomical detail would be somewhat obscured with black boxes or strategic blurs.
(I have yet to figure out what the specific censorship taboos are; I'm not really sure they're consistent across the genre. The specific point of intromittive contact usually gets blurred/boxed out, as does the fount of ejaculation; pre-ejaculatory ooze seems to be okay, but with the example that comes to mind, there was an (imho) oddly-placed blur along the bottom of the glans, I suppose to censor the rolled-back foreskin. Or at least I assume Kenshin has one; while circumcision wasn't traditional, the custom was to keep the foreskin rolled back, decreasing its visual obviousness-- which would be decreased even further during erection, or so I gather from online sources (never having seen an actual foreskin in the flesh). Also, there's that pesky question of whether he did have some sort of Christian influence in his childhood; I have no idea whether the Japanese crypto-Christians practiced circumcision, though it would've been a dangerous giveaway during most of the Shogunate, when converts were executed as a matter of policy.)