Obviously, any appetite can be abused. If you eat too much, you get fat. And if you have casual sex, you'll get emotionally scarred and physically disease-ridden. You'll also end up getting pregnant and having to support unwanted children, whether as the woman or as the man the child support is going to be an extremely heavy price to pay for a stupid petty orgasm. So yes, sex is not some mindless activity we should fling ourselves into at all moments. But that doesn't mean that satisfying your sexual appetites within reasonable, harmless bounds is the same as being a sex crazed lunatic.
Which brings me to erotic content. Content designed to satisfy people's appetites in a way that's harmless and pleasant, with no bad consequences or after effects. I have no idea why people object to this type of material. It seems like an unadulterated good and a perfect replacement for sex with actual living people, which is the cause of all the bad side effects listed above.
Erotic content comes in all shapes and sizes, but the goal is basically the same, to satisfy the appetite so that it goes away and you can again focus on other things. It shouldn't take any longer than a normal meal, and represents no burden on your day to day living. It's also free, and it leaves your brain completely unaddled after the fact, so unlike drugs, alcohol, cigarettes or gambling, no one can complain about the impact it has on your daily function.
There is no evidence that viewing things in a fictional universe eventually leads people to do them in the real world. Endless video game and movie studies have already proven, endless times, that sentient people can tell the difference between reality and fiction. Erotic content of any type is entirely harmless, and has not been shown to be harmful in any way, shape or form to anyone. in fact, given the number of times it forestalls casual sex, which is an actual danger to people's lives, I would consider it one of the healthiest objects on Earth. Sort of like how diet milk shakes are a great improvement over pig lard, even though they both include calories, and those who settle for the diet milk shakes end up much thinner than the ones who insist on sticking with the pig lard because it's 'natural and normal.'
The best erotic content can replace not only the appetite for sex but also for relationships. With romance stories between fictional characters, you can have a fantasy relationship with an actually worthwhile girl who A) won't get pregnant and demand child support B) costs nothing to date C) will never cheat on you or dump you D) is ten times as beautiful as any living woman E) is far more willing to actually have sex with you or go on dates with you or even hold your hand F) Is far more loving than people's feelings ever realistically reach in the real world. G) You can cheat on with endless additional fictional girlfriends and she'll never know and never get upset, thus creating a world of endless variety. If a story works hard to establish a wonderful girl who has wonderful feelings for you and then you get to have wonderful sex together, what more could you ask for? And if you've already reached the first two aspects in said story, is there any real reason to refrain from including the third aspect? Does it somehow improve the romance to leave out the best part?
But erotic content is so varied a term that it even covers just soft aspects of appreciating the female form. To me, there is nothing more beautiful in the universe than the female body. Obviously, a cadaver just sitting around somewhere isn't very attractive. But when that cadaver takes on a soul, has a bright expression on her face, a graceful active position that clearly only a feeling thinking soul could normally reach, is dressed in clothing that most brings out and suits her personality, is featured in an environment that suits her, or among friends she cares about, or whatever -- it turns out that everything else in the universe serves to make the female form far more beautiful than the female cadaver. And when you feature the female form in anything, doing anything, it enhances the beauty of both the woman and her surroundings to an endless level. I don't think there's really an end to female beauty. There are so many varieties of women, and they can have so many different stories of both where they came from, who they are, and where they are going, that I just don't think beauty has a stopping point. There's always something attractive left to draw that still hasn't been shown before. Sort of like how the number of beautiful musical melodies still hasn't dried up after all these centuries, and we're still composing new songs to this day. Every single time a bit of eros is included into our other products, those products tend to be improved. Because female beauty is beautiful, captivating, and perfect. I could not ask for more from any product, of any type, than to also have a bit of attention paid to the beauty of the female form as well. Even football games have cheerleaders on the side. Why is this? Because female beauty is always good. In everything. Everywhere.
Eros is why we appreciate the female form. The wish to have sex with said girl is the root of our appreciation for her face, figure, hair, dress, everything about her. Denying eroticism denies our ability to appreciate virtually any good thing left in life. Even song and dance is tied back to wanting to have sex with said singing or dancing woman. Beauty is the sexual appetite, and the sexual appetite is our aesthetic sense.
I do admit that there are times when erotic content is inappropriate and out of place. It disrupts the story and the characters, it feels unrealistic or just a waste of time. It can even cheapen things by making it all too easy and predictable. These are stylistic objections, however. They are not innate and they are not moral objections. If done well, any erotic content producer can find a way around these objections and introduce eros into any story they please, and it will always become better as a result, because eros is a good thing, one of the pleasures of this world, and a story that encompasses a greater breadth of the world's good things is by definition itself a better thing than a story that encompasses a smaller portion of the world's good things.
All the best anime, all the best manga, all the best light novels and all the best visual novels have heavy doses of erotic content in them. Some go further than others -- like Shukufuku no Campanella or To Love-ru, but they all have some, because all good art realizes the need for eros as an element of the pleasure it's trying to convey to the audience. Series that specialize in eroticism because that's where they've found their groove, what they're best at, and what they excel at in terms of reaching their audience, are in no ways inferior to, say, players who play Vega in Street Fighter as opposed to any of their other choices. So long as the story is good, by definition their decision wasn't wrong, it just so happens to be their playstyle to include more erotic content than average. If you win with Vega then by all means keep playing Vega. It doesn't matter what other people do or how they succeed. It doesn't matter whether it's possible to win at Street Fighter without playing Vega. It isn't just suddenly morally wrong to play Vega on principle, and therefore to be avoided if at all possible. Since there was nothing wrong with choosing Vega in the first place, it doesn't matter in the least whether choosing Vega was really the optimal choice for all people at all times in all places.
If you're especially good at satisfying people's sexual appetites, that makes you just as good as a prize chef in a 5 star restaurant. I think the artists behind To Love-ru and Mujaki no Rakuen are amazing. Many other people agree with me, which is why they sell so well. This isn't something to be ashamed of, but to be praised for. These people have uniquely great skills and they're providing a uniquely valuable service that is making a great many people happy. Many good stories are good precisely because of their focus on erotic content, not despite it. These stories don't have to be apologized for. You don't have to be ashamed of liking them. Eros is a great pillar of this world and humanity, just like any other pillar you could point to. Generally, the best authors tend to have a softer approach to erotic content, like One Piece and Fairy Tail, that just as a sidenote are constantly showing off delightful female flesh while also telling their serious plot-driven stories. But again, just because the best player of Street Fighter plays Akuma (hypothetically speaking), doesn't mean everyone is at their strongest when playing Akuma. There is more variety between people in this world than that. Furthermore, if there already is a perfect One Piece in this world, there's no point making a clone of it. Instead, a Futari Ecchi which in no way overlaps with One Piece, but instead does a great job covering a subject One Piece doesn't, actually better enriches the world than One Piece #10,000,000 would.
I am sick and tired of people objecting to stories with erotic content on the basis that they have erotic content. That somehow SAO becomes bad because it has a low-angle shot. Or Fairy Tail is bad because Lucy is stripped yet again. Or Haruhi Suzumiya is bad because they dress up in bunny suits. or Code Geass is bad because Euphemia and Kallen are found nude on the deserted island. So on and so forth. In the end every good series is disqualified by the god damn prudes who are so intent on denying the beauty of the female body that no story about anything anywhere gets through their censors. If for some reason your brain has totally haywired and you no longer have any sexual appetites, if the female form disgusts you and you would rather be blind than look at curvaceous women, then too bad -- keep it to yourself. You have no right to impose that warped, twisted view on all the rest of us who are enjoying a bit of harmless fun satisfying our erotic needs. Eros exists. Get over it! Satisfying it is perfectly healthy, natural and normal. The tools to do so are in no way to blame, evil, or wrong for doing so. There is nothing wrong with any portion of the entire framework.
And no, it does not harm children. Japan is saturated with this stuff, and has the lowest crime rate and the least sex in the world. So no. Just don't even start with that shit.
With this in mind, the 2d girls I most wish to spend time thinking about, who fulfill most every romantic, intellectual, emotional and erotic need, form a sort of 2d waifu hall of fame, my own private harem. With 100 women this great, one need never bother with 3d women again:
Cure Dream (Nozomi Yumehara) from Yes Pretty Cure 5 (CV: Yuko Sanpei) (Age 14-15)
Cure Lemonade (Urara Kasugano) from Yes Pretty Cure 5 (CV: Mariya Ise) (Age 13-14)
Cure White (Honoka Yukishiro) from Futari wa Pretty Cure (CV: Yukana Nogami) (Age 14-15)
Cure Egret (Mai Mishou) from Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star (CV: Atsuko Enomoto) (Age 13-14)
Cure Flora (Haruka Haruno) from Go! Princess Pretty Cure (CV: Yu Shimamura) (Age 13)
Cure Magical (Riko Izayoi) from Mahoutsukai Pretty Cure (CV: Yui Horie) (Age 13-14)
Asuna Yuuki from Sword Art Online (CV: Haruka Tomatsu) (Age 15-18)
Silica (Keiko Ayano) from Sword Art Online (CV: Rina Hidaka) (Age 12-15)
Leafa (Suguha Kirigaya) from Sword Art Online (CV: Ayana Taketatsu) (Age 15-16)
Rin Natsume from Little Busters! (CV: Tomoe Tamiyasu) (Age 16-17)
Haruka Saigusa from Little Busters! (CV: Keiko Suzuki) (Age 16-17)
Kudryavka Noumi/Strugatskaya from Little Busters! (CV: Naomi Wakabayashi) (Age 15-16)
Azusa Nakano from K-On! (CV: Ayana Taketatsu) (Age 15-17)
Yui Hirasawa from K-On! (CV: Aki Toyosaki) (Age 15-18)
Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha (CV: Satsuki Yukino) (Age 15-18)
Aoba Suzukaze from New Game (CV: Yuki Takada) (Age 18-20)
Teletha Testarossa from Full Metal Panic! (CV: Yukana Nogami) (Age 16)
Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic! (CV: Satsuki Yukino) (Age 16)
Mira Yurizaki from Dimension W (CV: Reina Ueda) (Age 2)
Rose from Tales of Zestiria (CV: Mikako Komatsu) (Age 17)
Elize Lutus from Tales of Xillia (CV: Yuki Horinaka) (Age 12-13)
Leia Rolando from Tales of Xillia (CV: Saori Hayami) (Age 15-16)
Sophie from Tales of Graces (CV: Kana Hanazawa) (Age 13)
Cheria Barnes from Tales of Graces (CV: Shiho Kawaragi) (Age 18)
Rydia from Final Fantasy 4 (CV: Noriko Shitaya) (Age 17)
Rosa Joanna Farrell from Final Fantasy 4 (CV: Yuuko Kaida) (Age 19)
Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy 7 (CV: Ayumi Ito) (Age 20)
Aerith Gainsborough from Final Fantasy 7 (CV: Maaya Sakamoto) (Age 22)
Rinoa Heartilly from Final Fantasy 8 (CV: Kana Hanazawa) (Age 17)
Yuna from Final Fantasy 10 (CV: Mayuko Aoki) (Age 17-19)
MOMO Mizrahi from Xenosaga (CV: Rumi Shishido) (Age 12)
Aruru from Utawarerumono (CV: Miyuki Sawashiro) (Age 9-27)
Eruru from Utawarerumono (CV: Ryoka Yuzuki) (Age 17-35)
Nekone from Utawarerumono (CV: Inori Minase) (Age 12-13)
Kuon from Utawarerumono (CV: Risa Taneda) (Age 16-17)
Nayuki Minase from Kanon (CV: Mariko Koda) (Age 17)
Nagisa Furukawa from Clannad (CV: Mai Nakahara) (Age 19-21)
Misuzu Kamio from Air (CV: Tomoko Kawakami) (Age 16-17)
Kotori Kanbe from Rewrite (CV: Chiwa Saito) (Age 16-17)
Wendy Marvel from Fairy Tail (CV: Satomi Sato) (Age 12-14)
Sherria Blendy from Fairy Tail (CV: Yuka Iguchi) (Age 15-17)
Lucy Heartfilia from Fairy Tail (CV: Aya Hirano) (Age 17-19)
Mavis Vermillion from Fairy Tail (CV: Mamiko Noto) (Age 13)
Levy McGarden from Fairy Tail (CV: Mariya Ise) (Age 17-19)
Juvia Locksor from Fairy Tail (CV: Mai Nakahara) (Age 17-19)
Lisanna Strauss from Fairy Tail (CV: Harumi Sakurai) (Age 17-19)
Mirajane Strauss from Fairy Tail (CV: Ryoko Ono) (Age 19-21)
Makina Irisu from Grisaia (CV: Tomoe Tamiyasu) (Age 15)
Nanoha Takamachi from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (CV: Yukari Tamura) (Age 9-25)
Fate Testarossa from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha (CV: Nana Mizuki) (Age 9-25)
Sakura Haruno from Naruto (CV: Chie Nakamura) (Age 12-36)
Rin Nohara from Naruto (CV: Haruhi Nanao) (Age 9-11)
Chtolly Nota Seniorious from Suka Suka (CV: Azusa Tadokoro) (Age 15)
Sagiri Izumi from Eromanga Sensei (CV: Akane Fujita) (Age 13)
Elf Yamada (Emily Granger) from Eromanga Sensei (CV: Minami Takahashi) (Age 14)
Deedlit from Record of Lodoss War (CV: Yumi Touma) (Age 175)
Kobato Hasegawa from Haganai (CV: Kana Hanazawa) (Age 13-14)
Sora Takanashi from PapaKiki (CV: Sumire Uesaka) (Age 14)
Miu Takanashi from PapaKiki (CV: Eri Kitamura) (Age 10)
Sakura Kinomoto from Card Captor Sakura (CV: Sakura Tange) (Age 10-13)
Lafiel Abriel from Crest of the Stars (CV: Ayako Kawasumi) (Age 15-26)
Myusel Foaran from Outbreak Company (CV: Suzuko Mimori) (Age 16)
Sara Rukawa/Chrysalis from Da Capo (CV: Chiyo Ousaki) (Age 14)
Nemu Asakura from Da Capo (CV: Sakura Nogawa) (Age 14)
Yume Asakura from Da Capo (CV: Hijiri Kinomi) (Age 14)
Himeno Katsuragi from Da Capo (CV: Mikoi Sasaki) (Age 14)
Sakura Yoshino from Da Capo (CV: Hitomi) (Age 14)
Aisia from Da Capo (CV: Ui Miyazaki) (Age 14)
Koko Tsukishima from Da Capo (CV: Nanjou Yoshino) (Age 14)
Yukino Ouhama from Osananajimi wa Daitouryou (CV: Nanjou Yoshino) (Age 16)
Sayaka Mayuzumi from Majikoi (CV: Yuka Inokuchi) (Age 14)
Isara Aomi from Koichoco (CV: Mai Kadowaki) (Age 15)
Yoru Kazato from Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete (CV: Hatsumi Takada) (Age 15)
Asa Kazato from Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete (CV: Ai Fukada) (Age 15)
Sae Nakata from Amagami SS (CV: Hiromi Konno) (Age 16-17)
Reina Ryuugu from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (CV: Mai Nakahara) (Age 15)
Sailor Moon (Usagi Tsukino) from Sailor Moon (CV: Kotono Mitsuishi) (Age 14-21)
Shana from Shakugan no Shana (CV: Rie Kugimiya) (Age 13)
Mikan Yuuki from To Love ru (CV: Kana Hanazawa) (Age 11-12)
Yuuhi Katagiri from Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka (CV: Rie Kugimiya) (Age 16)
Kobeni Yonomori from Mikakunin de Shinkoukei (CV: Haruka Terui) (Age 16)
Illyasviel von Einzbern from Fate/Etc. (CV: Mai Kadowaki) (Age 10-11)
Rin Tohsaka from Fate/Etc. (CV: Kana Ueda) (Age 19)
Orihime Inoue from Bleach (CV: Yuki Matsuoka) (Age 15-17)
Nico Yazawa from Love Live! (CV: Sora Tokui) (Age 17)
Chiwa Harusaki from Oreshura (CV: Chinatsu Akasaki) (Age 15)
Sakura Mamiya from Kyoukai no Rinne (CV: Marina Inoue) (Age 15)
Mumei (Hozumi) from Koutetsujou no Kabaneri (CV: Sayaka Senbongi) (Age 12)
Mylene Flare Jenius from Macross 7 (CV: Tomo Sakurai) (Age 14-15)
Lyria from Granblue Fantasy the Animation (CV: Nao Toyama) (Age 16)
Kokona Aoba from Yama no Susume (CV: Yui Ogura) (Age 13)
Menma (Meiko Honma) from Anohana (CV: Ai Kayano) (Age 15)
Ai Hinatsuru from Ryuuou no Oshigoto! (CV: Rina Hidaka) (Age 9-11)
Nadeko Sengoku from Bakemonogatari (CV: Kana Hanazawa) (Age 13-15)
Kirino Kousaka from Oreimo (CV: Ayana Taketatsu) (Age 14)
Mikoto Misaka from Index/Railgun (CV: Rina Satou) (Age 14)
Louise Francoise Le Blanc de la Valliere from Zero no Tsukaima (CV: Rie Kugimiya) (Age 16-17)
Wakaba Tsukishima/Akane Takigawa from Cross Game (CV: Akemi Kanda) (Age 11-17)
Iris Freyja from Juuou Mujin no Fafnir (CV: Rina Hidaka) (Age 16)
Mitsuki Mononobe from Juuou Mujin no Fafnir (CV: Manami Numakura) (Age 16)
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