"Ero guro nansensu's first distinct appearance began in 1920s and 1930s Japanese literature. The Sada Abe Incident of 1936, where a woman strangled her lover to death and castrated his corpse, struck a chord with the ero guro nansensu movement but shortly led to the censorship of related media.[5] Other similar activities and movements were generally suppressed in Japan during World War II, but re-emerged in the postwar period, especially in manga and music.[6]"
I'm starting to get why dumb as shit westerners associate Japanese culture with perversion and I also am starting to get why they flock to Japanese culture because here in the west sexuality is repressed to such degree that we're looking for any escape at all and the Japanese culture looks like a pretty good escape for those kinds of feelings at least from an outsider's perspective
