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Originally posted by Sexfind
in Australia the law now provides to prohibit sexually explicit material which depicts people who "appear to be under 18". Obviously this is entirely subjective and raises all sorts of questions!
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I think US prosecutors would like this latitude as well, but so far, as I understand it, the judges haven't been buying. Sort of like the problem with virtual CP. At one time the argument was that CP required the abuse of a child to make it. When virtual CP raised its ugly head, that argument obviously no longer applied, so they've been fishing for another excuse to prosecute such cases. Now the argument is that virtual CP can be used as "grooming" material to soften victims. (Actually, I think anime may be doing this already, but what the heck?)
Much as we all would like to stop CP, not only to protect children but to deflect criticism from out industry, we also need to fight the gradual erosion of our civil rights. As Bill Maher has said, "When they come to take your rights away, they'll do so in the name of the children."
We should love our children enough to make sure they are born into a world at least as free as the one we were born into, if not freer.