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"Woman"
in ero manga, then, is a polyvalent symbol: She stands both
metonymically for so-called real women (mainly wives and mothers
who manage families and homes in which the male's role has
become increasingly irrelevant) and metaphorically for other
things (such as society in general, the social and economic
expectation to work hard, entrance exams, and the social interrelatedness
demanded at work). What is done to this "woman"
is expressed, more than by any other gesture in erotic comics,
by "sex" constructed variously but dominantly by
violence...
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