Hentai Section Revived and Separated

I never thought I'd see the day AGAIN, when the erotic section of the Otaku Fridge will be separated from the main site. I'm still not going back to calling it Hentai Neko, though. That site has long been sold (2007) and its current owner seems to have a different direction in mind for it.

It's 2010 -- well, as I write this it's only December 14, 2009, but you won't see this post till I launch in January 1, 2010 anyway -- and so many things have happened throughout the entire year that had me turning my life upside down again.  The separation was triggered by two things:

1. Budget constraints. As I have mentioned in the main site, much as I loved tweaking the Wordpress content management system and testing its limits, it seems I have been remiss in tweaking the limits of my own wallet.  2009 was a year of life-altering events: Michael Jackson's untimely demise (plus Francis Magalona's, Cory Aquino's, David Carradine's, Farrah Fawcett's and Brittany Murphy's T.T), Typhoon Ondoy submerging so many of our cities, and the political unrest surrounding the fear that we'll once again be under Martial Law. I never imagined I could actually spend thousands of pesos on people (typhoon victims) that I am not related to and if you think about it, spending so much money on a hobby (maintaining my sites) seems suddenly trivial. So, as you can see, I'm finding a new home in a less sophisticated platform (yet another database migration; I swear, uploading HTML files via FTP was so much simpler).  I feel like I've downgraded, technology-wise.  Still, the important thing remains: Blogger is free. Not to mention, it's in sync with the rest of my favorite Google applications.
   
   
2. A radical cognate.  Many of you who have followed my sites closely might be aware that I am in my second year of PhD studies.  The onset of my second year was quite interesting; it was when I took up my first cognate. Cognates are elective subjects that are taken from a college outside of your own.  I am studying at the University of the Philippines' College of Mass Communication and I took my first cognate at the College of Social Work and Community Development. The cognates' name? WD227: Gender and Sexuality under Dr. Guy Claudio.  I volunteered to report about an article she wrote on Feminism and Pornography and boy, was I shocked.  I thought feminists wouldn't want anything to do with pornography, since many believe it objectifies women, but it turns out I was wrong.  There is a wing of feminists that declare it a sexual right, having that access to such material.
   
   
   
   To make things more interesting, the student who did a similar report after me, narrated the tale of two women: Jenna Jameson (we all know her, of course) and May Ling Su. Both are porn stars but have led starkly different lives.  As soon as I got home from class, I Googled May Ling Su and ended up commenting on her website. The woman is surprisingly intelligent -- being a graduate of Ateneo de Manila -- and we managed to discuss socially relevant issues like the Philippines' RH Bill.  It was kind of surreal, having an online conversation with a true-blue porn star, but hey, I consider it a scholarly foray into the wilderness. (Although that's about the only thing I can do, since I can't imagine myself doing pornography.)

With these two in mind, how could I not separate the hentai from the non-hentai?  If I wish to discuss adult material, including socially relevant topics like reproductive health and sexual rights, I can't very well put it there.  Plus, Blogger has a rule about placing warnings on adult sites and I can't have that warning disrupting visitors of my regular anime site.

So the "Roar" is back up and I'm hoping it will expand further. Oh and...I miss seeing the kitty girls I commissioned my friend Nicco Salonga to do in 2006, so I'm bringing them back...as soon as I'm done fishing them out of my old emails. In the meantime, let's just make do with an image I used in July of an unknown year (perhaps 2005?).