Why is it necessary to be extremely cautious about allowing childhood nudity, whether actual photos or paintings or CG renderings?

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2003/April/03_ag_266.htm
http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/S151CONF.pdf

Look at pg. 68 and subsequent.  To make a long story short, US Federal Law that is current, on the books, and enforced with heavy jail time, that does not make any distinction between "obscene" real images and "obscene" CG or Photoshopped or whatever other types of images that involve depictions of minors.  Since the definition of "obscene" is pretty subjective, it is a lot safer to avoid the risk entirely rather than to defend oneself after the fact, from a prison cell.  It's very easy to talk about challenging "censorship" when we're all anonymous bits and bytes floating around on the internet, not so much when your name and address is listed as the site owner.  If anybody wants to bear that risk themselves they are free to run their own site and have more child nudity than you can shake a stick at.

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