Merry Christmas from Jail

You may or may not have noticed, but I’m Canadian. And you know, up here in Canada we like to think we’re a pretty fair and righteous bunch of people. All of those crazy fear-mongering laws being put to place in the US (who needs a trial, anyways?), we don’t care so much for that. We’re all about peace and love and tolerance and progressive liberal views!

At least that’s what I thought. But it turns out our Criminal Code is a little more “interesting” than I thought. It also turns out that I’m a felon.

Wait, what?.

You see, I hinted on my site recently that I was looking into making a “Christmas present” for everyone. I don’t know if I’ll have time to update this later, so I’ll just let you know what it is now:

Mystic Girl! My 3rd hentai game is officially in progress!

Hurrah! So what’s the problem and how does this lead me into being a criminal?

Well making games of any sort is a complex, time-consuming endeavour. As much as I’d love to be able to continue throwing endless amounts of free stuff around, there are more productive ways for me to spend me to be spending my time than making hentai. So if I was going to continue I wanted to get some tangible pay back from my efforts.

My plan? Create another free hentai game (that is in itself better than Demon Girl) and then create an expanded version which cost a few dollars for a bunch of extra content. Obviously the popular response to this will be “OMG YOU SELL OUT” but I think it is rather fair. And since my games get millions of hits, hopefully I could nab a couple of sales here and there. Everyone else would just pirate it anyways, so I wouldn’t really be restricting access very much. Plus, it all starts with giving a new game away for free, so forgive me for not feeling bad.

But now I would be selling pornography. Or am I? Is hentai pornography? Is there any legal mumbo jumbo I need to go through to legally sell it? This is a serious issue, so I looked into it.

And here we come to the wonderful Criminal Code of Canada. Surely here I can find the information I’m looking for. Wait, no, doesn’t mention a thing about the sale of pornography. It does however bring some new insights that are of interest:

1) Hentai = pornography.
2) Pornography + violence = obscene.
3) Obscene pornography = Corrupting public morals = A criminal offence.

And here I am distributing tentacle rape hentai to millions of people.

Now I’m not a lawyer, and the law seems so ridiculously vaguely worded that I don’t know if it holds any water in court, but I’m still disturbed to say the least. Disturbed enough that the whole plan up there – probably not gonna happen. As soon as money gets involved people start paying attention, and I don’t want attention to lead to me going to jail.

But hey, there’s a catch. If I use the game to portray a political message it suddenly becomes legal again! And all politics is rape of some kind or another. Maybe if I make the tentacles represent ridiculous, outdated laws, and Mystic Girl represent a hentai artist...