Hentai is good stuff. Physical
porn (as in, real filmed
porn) has limits, but
pornographic anime can go beyond
reality into the
imagination of the artists. Ignoring dumb
generalizations like
anime ain't anime without tentacle rape,
hentai caters to people such as myself, who gets
bored with regular
porn, dislikes
fetishes such as
hardcore bondage, and needs something that is
new and
exciting. By the way, there is some
bondage in
hentai, but there is plenty of "clean"
hentai as well.
No, it isn't all about demons, schoolgirls and an particular preference for rape, which disgusts me. Plenty of hentai is artistic, beautifully drawn animations, great sound effects and impressionism (something real porn cannot really achieve). Sure, animated porn is less "real" than the plastically enhanced bimbos of SoCal, but they look more real, and they look good, since nothing restricts the pen of an artist. Good hentai, as a result, beats the vast majority of porn. And there is nothing wrong with schoolgirls.
Hentai does delve heavily into fetish areas such as tentacles, mythology, bondage, rape, gangs, worship, and other strange stuff that some Japanese people find attractive. I choose to ignore that kind of stuff. It doesn't appeal. Unfortunately, the most shocking stuff always ends up overseas in the United States, and casts a bad impression on hentai as a whole. For some real hentai, go to Japan, Hong Kong or Seoul.
For those people who dislike animated pornography, there is Japanese porn. I wrote up a summary there.