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syaoran-kun said:
Hentai is a terrific and WRONG word for porn used by americans and such. Japanese never use "hentai" to refer at porn. Imho we shouldn't have it.
It's not "wrong", any more than their reappropriations of our words are wrong for them. It's just not the original word anymore, any more than "マスター" for "bartender" or "マンション" for "apartment".

It does make a difference: after only "moe" and "imouto", "hentai" is the #3 top search keyword people use to find the site.

It's not strictly equivalent to rating:e--there's a lot of stuff we generally rate "explicit" that I wouldn't call porn--but I might try just making rating:e add a fake "hentai" tag to the title/URLs. Probably 90% of rating:e posts would be tagged hentai if we used the tag consistently, so it's accurate enough for people googling, but not worth going through and trying to make it consistent.

I guess another philosophy would be to say that stuff that wouldn't be called hentai should be rating:q anyway. That was the basic rationale behind setting post #47676 to Q: it's nudity, but it's completely innocent...