/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I fap to it now

I would fap to nothing.

Our current tastes are shaped by our experiences with modern society. How is this even a fucking question?

That wouldn't make me a hypocrite, even today I don't save certain 2D images. I won't fap to it just because it's 2D, I fap to it because it's beautiful. And man can only know beauty as the most beautiful thing he's seen, if it happened all 2D at the time was unappealing, that's the way it would go.

Taking it to the extreme, if we follow your logic, I could just scribble a vaguely human shape on a piece of paper and apparently I'm a hypocrite if I don't fap to it. 2D is not automatically better than 3D - consider artists who paint photorealistic pieces. It's just that 2D has the potential to be better.

Ukiyo-e Shunga is 2D, I don't get what you are trying to say.

>>7186695
Deep.

>>7186695
>casual doesn't fap to stickmen

I'd probably fap to crying men, the nape of women's necks, poetry that doesn't rhyme but compensates by having a double entendre every couple of lines and helmets that come loose due to sweat during battle, because those were the prevalent fetishes of the time in Japan.

Is that the intended use of the Tengu mask? Because that's the gist I'm getting.

>Would you fap to Ukiyo-e Shunga?
nope. i wouldn't even know japan existed since it'd be before even america was discovered.

This.
>>7186689
And this.
>>7186695

>>7187094
>wouldn't even know japan existed
Well, okay, guess that's likely given geographic knowledge and educati--
>before even america was discovered
>few centuries ago
>before america was discovered
Fuck you.

This.
>>7186689
And this.
>>7186695

I'd take a vow of silence and live in a monastery. I would secretly not believe in any of it but nobody would try to talk to me and my needs would all be taken care of.

>>7187136
hey, it was discovered like 500 years ago or so. that's only 5 centuries, so few works here just fine.

that, and everyone here would be a common peasant during the middle ages back then.

how many of them knew a tiny island with those weird yellow slanty eyed men who have small dicks and aren't chinese existed?

>>7187163
Ukiyo-e reached its peak of popularity in 1688, 60 years AFTER Plymouth colony was established in Massachusetts, which was NOT the first colony in the Americas.
But let's go along with your 500 years ago statement, and let's assume that 1492 is the definitive "discovery" of the Americas, despite of growing archaeological evidence that the Norse, Chinese, and other peoples had made it here before. Marco Polo's exploration of the East was two centuries prior to that. The Spanish and Portuguese were also already in active trade with Japan during the 1500's. In fact, foreign influence in Japan was so strong that it was a major Tokugawa (c1648) initiative to ostracize Christians and Europeans, a prerogative that helped establish Tokugawa legitimacy.
Also,
>the middle ages back then
The 1500's are generally considered to be the late beginning of the Renaissance period, the greatest surge in intellectual and artistic development until the digital age. The Dark Ages were long past.

>>7187341
Forgot to mention native populations, but that's next week's lecture.

>>7186675
I would, and in fact I just did.