I’ve read some responses touching on the same issue, but my point is different enough that I thought I’d do my own.
I believe that posession of child, or any other kind of pornography should be legal. I don’t have enough information to decide whether the actual making of child pornography is harmful in the long term to the children, but I believe that having easy access to it would allow would-be child molesters to limit themselves to viewing things that have already happened and can’t be undone.
I would say that the prominence of hentai and lolicon in Japan is a smaller step in the same direction, and seems to have worked well there.
In context it’s interesting that Japanese children’s manga routinely has bawdy jokes, sexualized slapstick and “fan service”. This may be an outsider’s mistaken view but there doesn’t seem to be any serious attempt to fence children into a contrived asexual sandpit.
I’ve read some responses touching on the same issue, but my point is different enough that I thought I’d do my own.
I believe that posession of child, or any other kind of pornography should be legal. I don’t have enough information to decide whether the actual making of child pornography is harmful in the long term to the children, but I believe that having easy access to it would allow would-be child molesters to limit themselves to viewing things that have already happened and can’t be undone.
I would say that the prominence of hentai and lolicon in Japan is a smaller step in the same direction, and seems to have worked well there.
In context it’s interesting that Japanese children’s manga routinely has bawdy jokes, sexualized slapstick and “fan service”. This may be an outsider’s mistaken view but there doesn’t seem to be any serious attempt to fence children into a contrived asexual sandpit.
I agree that’s interesting, but remember these manga are not actually written by children, nor bought or read exclusively by children.