I personally tend to agree about the children as compared to teen fantasy, there is a line there as to what for me is accrptable personally
having said that, I am not really willing to censor or control someone elses fantasy. I dont nessisarily like it, but I dont really have to like something to belive someone has a right to it
Does it pander to pedophilia, yes, I belive it does, but does that mean it immoral on its base?
Most people who watch violent movies are not violent, but certainly a study of violent personalities might show most watch violent films, do the films cause the violence or would the people be violent anyway?
Child abuse, rape, violence and the atrocities of the world predate mass media by a very long time. The worst instances of violence in our nation and the world certanly happened before movies and the net. Would I find him guilty if I were a Juror? no, I dont think I would. But I would liely find the material highly unsettling. The line between reality and thought is an important one. it opens a door to arguments that quickly become a threat.
Is music at faut for kids doing drugs? do writings exploring fantasy equal the preforming of those fantasies?
Where is the line between the literary and the erotic?
and in a cruel twist, what about the child rapist who comes back and argues that he is not wholely responsible for his actions, that the drawings made him do it?
Child abuse is one of the most hotwired buttons into our feelings, it brings up anger and hatred and dread and rightly so.
But in making laws we need to consider the impact on the whole against liberty and weigh it carefully against the safety of human beings. Does outlawinng drawings and stories really make any child safer or does it simply censor what disturbs us?