After being alerted to the term ‘hentai machine’ being discussed amongst young children, our Online Safety Experts have researched and produced a digital threat assessment to help school staff and safeguarding professionals understand this complex topic.
This briefing document is available to download below.
It outlines the areas of concern, associated safeguarding risks and provides practical tips on how to respond effectively, if the children and young people in your care are discussing Hentai.
What is Hentai?
Why are these apps so popular?
Hentai is adult pornography that uses a Japanese style of animation. It is essentially cartoon-ised images of a sexually explicit nature. However, our research shows that hentai can go far beyond this. Some material can be classified as child sexual abuse imagery, bestiality, and other forms of extreme sexual violence.
Context is key: hentai may appear ‘cartoonish’ and therefore child-friend and easy to dismiss but the content is sexual in nature and can normalise violent, harmful, and illegal content.
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