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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
Well, I don't think it's about nudity; nudity has been a common feature of recognized, "high-class" art forever. I think it's simply the stigma of "working in the porn industry". This is even though the voice actors can make the same sorts of sounds in other anime/games (particularly the more suggestive ones) and it's okay. I once got into a bit of an argument with someone who was arguing that "the sounds of sex" were "sacred" and that voice actresses are essentially defiling themselves by taking on these roles; my argument was essentially that, to them, it's just acting like anything else, and it's not actually anything like sex (regardless of how it's depicted)... But, regardless of your personal feelings about it, the line is there in a lot of people's thinking, so the industry tries to play by these same rules.
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You don't have to tell me about that argument; I was there!
But even nudity in high-class art can still irk the wrong people who would rather there be fig leaves everywhere in museums with Classical Greek/Roman statues. First you tell the kids it's not okay to run around naked; then you have to tell them about how certain nude statues are considered great art.
Where the line is drawn about "what's in the porn industry or not" is a bit of a problem with eroges. Some (especially the nuki/yaruges) really are just anime-style pornography. However, I'm sure that if a company like Leaf/Aquaplus or Type-Moon didn't have fans that were screeching for HCGs and could still make a killing purely with all-ages visual novels, those companies would definitely take the opportunity and ditch their h-material.
The truth remains, however, that in fanservice anime series like Queen's Blade and its derivatives, or To Love-Ru, or Asobi ni Iku yo!, or Manyuu Hikenchou, etc., female seiyuus are paid to make suggestive noises quite like those in eroges, and no one gives them flak for it. At least the better eroges try to make the h-content work within a good narrative (like YnS did), and I think the seiyuus still deserve credit for that. Too bad about that prejudice, though . . .