Manga and anime should be banned just on principle, regardless of any connection to porn. I could expound on just how truly awful those cartoon forms are, but then I remember that this is the culture that recently produced ghastly robot “babies” to try to entice people to have more children.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/23/japan.baby.robot.population/
Wow....aren’t they about 100 years late?
Anima introduced a child of mine to transexualism and homosexuality.
It should be noted that US law in this area is vague and inconsistent.
Federal law prohibits “cartoon” or virtual pornography involving fictional child characters only if it “lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.”
How, even in theory, virtual or cartoon child porn could have any such value is a puzzlement.
State laws on the issue are wildly inconsistent.
This is something I’ve been concerned about for a number of years. Actually, ever sinc CGI was clearly depicting human acts so realistically that any futurist could see that the day was soon coming that you could not tell the difference between real actors and CGI.
The foundational argument against posessing these images of children is that a real child is in the images or videos and is being exploited. No matter what the arguments the supporters of this industry may try, that argument trumps it all. But what of drawings and, of CGI that looks absolutely real? No child was exploited.
What then?
There is a basic legal problem with trying to outlaw cartoon child porn.
This is best described by the “stick figure test”. Draw two simple standing stick figures.
Caption them as two adults having a conversation about politics. Quite legal. Caption them as two young children having sex, even if they are not touching, and it is child pornography. The porn is in the text, not the pictures.
Cartoon characters can have adult features, child features, anthropomorphic animal features, even mechanical features, that are vague enough to be subjective, and can even be modified by descriptions. Likewise, they can change or morph, age or become young, say one thing and do another.
The US tried banning child pornographic cartoons, but it has ended up with federal judges *subjectively* deciding cases based on their own opinions, not the law. This means that some judges will define child porn as most anything, and some rejecting real child porn as nothing.