Young Adults in Erotic Fiction

[Mad Lews]

Thanks, but as you can see, I didn't ask for advice specifically but rather "where can I go for info." I can go to a lawyer of course but I was hoping for online leads.

Googling child porn in literature will get you a few hundred hits, the newest are about the Supreme Court upholding laws against possession of material promoted as child porn even if it does not actually involve real children. That's the law passed to deal with virtual porn.
Again like most pornography rulings exceptions are made for works of artistic and social merit.
To answer your question

www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/CV96.pdf
www.wla.org/igs/ifig/principles.doc
laws.findlaw.com/us/000/00-795.html
www.cyber-rights.org/reports/uscases.htm - 50k

all deal with the shifting definitions of how child pornography is legally defined.

[Razor7826]

Googling child porn in literature will get you a few hundred hits, the newest are about the Supreme Court upholding laws against possession of material promoted as child porn even if it does not actually involve real children. That's the law passed to deal with virtual porn.
Again like most pornography rulings exceptions are made for works of artistic and social merit.

Yesterdays ruling doesn't really change anything with regards to virtual porn. From what I've read, they affirmed the parts of the law that deal with showing clear intent to obtain or share CP, while reiterating the legality of pornography that does not involve real minors. They made a point of saying that it is still legal in that way.

However, it all depends on what the local prosecutors want to pursue. Obscenity is the major threat authors face, not any crimes relating to CP. Objectionable subject matter may make juries less compassionate, though.