Your guess about what Congress would be willing to do was correct, but two or so session ago the Supreme Court struck down as unsonstitutional federal laws criminalizing virtual child porn. If it's not real people or based on real people, if it's anime or cartoons or looks real but it's just digitized, it can't be criminalized. With real people you need to post a certificate attesting that your actors are all over 18, which takes out a lot of classic porn for which no such certificates are available -- actors long gone, ashamed to certify, etc.
--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Andie wrote:
>
>
>
> >The way he thinks things are is that he's enacting
> his desire to
> >have sex with a 13 year old by pretending that his
> 18+
> >girlfriend, who he know to be over 18, is 13. Far
> from
> >being criminal, that's probably a really good way
> to
> >for someone with paedophilic inclinations to deal
> with
> >those desires, if it works for him.
>
>
> Virtual child pornography might be a good way too
> but the arguments
> against it are that it's used to desensitize real
> kids and that
> investigators can't tell real from virtual images.
> I think when it
> comes to pedophilia legislators don't have a problem
> with the idea
> they might be criminalizing what people are
> thinking.
>
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