Are Japanese Adult Videos Legal in the U.S.

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Something that involves million of viewers being arrested would be on the news. You must just want me to kill myself from what i understand

Bear in mind that lots of things factor into whether someone is arrested and prosecuted for this kind of thing. It starts with the actual videos the person chooses to watch. As I said earlier, many (perhaps most) of the videos on that site may be quite legal to view, and most visitors to the site may confine themselves to watching just those videos. So while even if the site has millions of visitors, most of them might not be viewing any illegal content and thus those people would not be prosecuted. The problem is that some of the videos on there might be illegal. The visitors to the site who view those videos run a risk that they may be prosecuted for it. Not all people who view them are going to be caught. The thing is, a few of them may indeed be caught, and for them the consequences will be severe. So the issue here is one of risk: the chance that you may be caught and prosecuted is probably quite low if all you do is stumble on an illegal video once in a while; the risk grows the more often you watch the illegal stuff. But even though the risk might be low, there is still a chance you’d be one of those caught. You need to decide whether that is a risk you are willing to run to watch the more questionable videos that may be on the site. Once again, no one here can give you a guarantee that you are safe watching videos on that or any other porn site. Most who watch porn on the net never face any criminal prosecution. But some do. As with anything in the law, the details matter.

Chances are that nothing will happen from the videos you have already watched. This is not something for you to get so worked up about that you contemplate suicide. You shouldn’t panic here unless you know you’ve been watching child porn or truly obscene stuff. But what you want to do in the future is ensure you avoid accessing those sorts of videos. You know what the risks are, so minimize them by, as a starting point, steering very far away from any videos that might at all involve persons under 18.