they have found cases where the folks that had the virtual child porn went for the real stuff http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15252 http://www.pcanswer.com/articles/synd_virtualporn.htm The other side could argue that allowing virtual porn will open the floodgates to real porn by creating the impression that images of children engaged in sex is somehow acceptable. What's to stop production companies from churning out child porn films for our local video stores? And how are we to really know whether all that child porn is really virtual or really real? child porn is child porn, be it of of real children or virtual children