Hey everyone! I’ve kinda felt the need to revisit this topic for a while now, since it keeps popping up around the internet every now and then and that totally makes sense. Just like an erection, you know? Not doing anything exciting whatsoever? Too bad, erection time.
But yeah. Back in October, Japanese-based retailer J-List published a blog post that – in the nicest possible way – sucked clickbait-arse shit. Titled ‘Australia Bans Waifus, Onaholes, and Fun!‘, J-List claimed that Australia had suddenly banned all adult goods.
The entire population has had to awkwardly walk around in children’s clothing as a result.
It worked out pretty well for them though, with various sites including Mashable, Bounding Into Comics, Sankaku Complex and even bloody VICE regurgitating the announcement.
“Awwwuuh, it’s pretty big, I guess…”
Apparently the Japanese branch of shipping company DHL ‘advised’ J-List to stop sending anything to Australia due to some packages getting held or rejected by customs. As a result, J-List has (at the time of writing) banned Australians from ordering basically anything from their website.
Details are purposely vague on what exactly triggered this shipment ban, as J-List stock everything from onaholes to family-friendly hentai incest Blu-rays like Imouto Paradise! (check it out on HentaiHaven or whatever if you want to give yourself brain damage whilst saving $98 (!) in the process).
And I absolutely have no doubt they ran into issues with Australian customs. Like, probably some fairly major shit if it got to the point where DHL had to specifically tell J-List to stop.
It’s not like customs magically know when a package has some fuckin’ obscure fetish porn in it. Not unless the declaration form specifically mentions a title by name (which an adult retailer never does for obvious reasons), or if staff painstakingly inspect every single package (they don’t).
Basically means J-List had somehow managed to fuck up enough to get flagged by border security and make a list™.
The possibilities to wage a five-cent bet on are endless, honestly. Australia is completely demented when it comes to anime and manga at the best of times – baffling and random decisions have plagued the nation ever since cavemen humped meat pies.
Yesterday.
“They’re the same thing” – Australian Classification Board after huffing their daily tin of paint.
Shit like Sword Art Online and No Game No Life famously prompted an entire parliament meeting last year, where a bumbling old fat man wasted taxpayer money to go into extreme graphic detail about his rape-fantasy fanfiction DOT NET-tier content that had little to do with anything.
Didn’t matter; retailers pulled them from bookshelves regardless. You can even still buy the anime here, but the manga or light novels? Nope. Too far.
“At least it’s not as bad as that no good Atelier” – Australian Classification Board after rejecting sixty thousand games for featuring medicine.
That’s an entirely different (yet related) can of ham, though. To make things clear on the topic of Japanese sex toys – nah. Australia absolutely hasn’t banned them, or even fun! You can’t have one without the other. Waifus though? Fuck, man. Who knows.
I’m honestly still in absolute awe that multiple sites saw a blog post unironically mention ‘waifus’ and took it seriously.
Shortly after J-List’s blog post last year, fellow Japanese adult retailer otonaJP issued a statement confirming that they’re still shipping to Australia. Nothing had changed on their end and they also deal with DHL, so go figure.
otonaJP still ships to Australia, with Japan Post as well as DHL. Australia has already been one of the countries that has more strict rules in place than others when it comes to Hentai content for quite some time. The truth however also is that many countries in the world have similar laws and if worst comes to worst, customs officers in pretty much any country in the world can stop your package, based on their laws if they consider the shown characters too young. So beside being stricter than others, the situation in Australia is not much different from the US or even Europe.
Now several months later – where confusion has run wild on if Australians are allowed to fuck rubber holes made in Japan or not – it turns out… this was just an issue with J-List.
Every other overseas onahole retailer that previously shipped to Australia is still shipping here now. From the American-based site ToyDemon, Europe’s MotsuToys, to Japanese retailers like otonaJP, Otona-Sekai and Kanojo Toys – the list goes on. Not much though. There’s only so many onahole websites hey.
You can even hop on eBay’s Australian site and find a bajillion stink-arse resellers who’ll happily flog you some onaholes with a mere 6,000% mark-up with no troubles. Officially approved accounts.
Of course, there’s no guarantee you’re in the clear when importing onaholes. There never has been. Australian customs can and will confiscate a package if they happen to open it up and see a young cartoon girl squirting up a storm or whatever on the box art.
I’ve been ordering onaholes since 2013, and during that time I’ve had a handful of packages get mysteriously held for sometimes weeks on end before getting cleared. I’ve even had stuff opened up by border security and luckily still got the tick of approval.
Personally nothing I’ve ordered has ever been confiscated, but that’s because all the luck I’ve accumulated over the years has seemingly been hyper-focused on this one aspect of my life. Fucking grand. I’ve heard countless stories of fellow Aussies getting random packages denied though. Even for far more tame stuff like vanilla doujinshi.
Leading back to otonaJP’s statement, the retailer recommends customers make use of their package removal option. And yeah, you absolutely should. Most sites have this option included during the checkout process these days.
Sometimes it’s as simple as a checkbox, but for joints like ToyDemon you can just make a request to remove packaging in the ‘comments’ section right before paying. Hell, sometimes ToyDemon already have the box removed for some of the more risky loli artwork regardless (otherwise they’d probably maybe get in shit trying to bulk import that kinda stuff into the US).
Amazingly, J-List is the only site that actually charges extra to remove packaging. Everyone else does this for free, but J-List? Nah bro, $5 USD (?!) to take a floppy piece of anime arse out of its box. Very difficult. Might work up a sweat.
Basically if you think the artwork might be too extreme, ask to have it removed. This goes for a lot of joints really (hello Canada). The chances of getting stuff checked is kinda low, but it’s better to be safe than sorry losing money.
Who knows, maybe Australia will go full-blown Australia and one day somehow figure out how to ban all sex toy shipments, but for now it’s business as usual for every retailer except J-List. :’)
I think the reason that j-list has you pay 5$ for package removal is because it is hard work to do so. I mean imagine, you are working in a warehouse filled to the brim with onaholes. Everywhere you look you see pictures of scarcely clothed girls in sexy positions. Most likely bob dropped a package which contained a bottle of some weird perfume from some girls underwear.
You must be working with a rockhard erection the entire day. Now whilst you are so horny some guy orders you to remove the onahole from the package. You have to grab the box and see the art upclose while already popping an erection from bob’s earlier accident. You then have to remove the package and grab the onahole, you mind still spinning at 2000 rpm.
At that point accidents happen you know, workers blank out and just start fucking the onaholes right then and there. But J-list can’t sent you that one anymore and have to get a replacement. Throwing the old one out. So the 5$ we pay is some sort of collective payment thing to make sure J-list doesn’t go out of business from hese kinda accidents. If 1 in every 20 packages has these kinda accidents that would mean we collectivly pay 100$. With prices from onaholes afrom vastly I think thats a fair ammount of money.
You really ought to work with those J-list guys someday infernal, see how long you last removing packages all day before you stick your willy into the onahole someone else ordered in some horny hazy.
This is art.
Joke’s on them though, I’d simply save up enough of the empty boxes, stack ’em together and punch a hole through the middle. Free ultra budget sexy onahole. 🤠
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You should not badmouth Imouto Paradise, it is a reaally good hentai.
Perfect for your loli-themed onaholes/torso’s ;3
I couldn’t get over the nightmare fuel facial expressions lol
reminds me of the ahego faces in the second episode of the anal loving vampire hentai
that is fucking terrifying
hahahaha, exactly. and she looks like an bloody alien in the scene she’s sucking the dick just a few seconds before this scene.
That’s nothing.
https://tbi.sb-cd.com/t/10358939/1/0/w:500/t8-enh/kyuuketsuki-sex-scenes.jpg
I saw in a 7 News article that a man was arrested due to
him owning sex doll parts in Melbourne (only mentions a torso toy, but damn six mobile phones?) https://7news.com.au/news/crime/chinese-national-arrested-in-toorak-after-allegedly-importing-child-like-sex-doll-parts-c-2614931
You have any thoughts about this?
Ah shit, I was going to cover this aspect in the article and completely forgot lol. But yeah, Australian customs cracked down pretty hard on ‘child-like’ sex dolls imported from China last year after some individuals were doing bulk purchases. A few local reseller sites vanished overnight too.
You’d be surprised how many people still think Australia banned imports from Japan because of that one article. Even after I tell them I’ve bought plenty of onaholes and never got even a second look from customs, I’ve had people who think ASIO are going to bust them for buying a silicon tube to cum inside. Still, with the lack of cheap retailers and friggin’ insane shipping cost, they might be better off not getting sucked into the onahole game in this country.
On the topic of doujinshi, this is a really informative read
https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship/books-magazines/m.html#manga-hentai-comic-books
They literally had to return his hentai. In practice they operate under the same obscenity laws as many states as the US, it’s intentionally left to discretion and I think no one really gives a toss about most vanilla hentai out there, and at worst you risk losing money.
I find it interesting jlist did not ban shipments to the US though. Australia bans something I feel like is a clickbait meme to distract from the legal mess that’s the united states. That and it’s also very easy to confuse the classification guidelines which only tells you what you can sell, and what you are allowed to own.
On the topic of jlist though peter payne was notorious for reporting other vendors for loli back in the early 2000s at US anime cons. It’s a bit rich that he accuses Australia for banning fun when as per the above link customs is fine with more pornography than he was when he was flogging “looking for a Japanese girlfriend” shirts.
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