Forum: OT


Subject: Are some people walking a fine line here?...or am I nutz?

ElectricAardvark opened this issue on Apr 10, 2002 ยท 100 posts


VirtualSite posted Thu, 11 April 2002 at 12:10 PM

Can anyone see how absurd the whole "computer generated models" as child porn" can get? In Vancouver recently, there was public outrage over the trial of a man who was writing child porn stories involving bondage and S&M scenarios. His lawyer argued that these were works with literary merit, and the judge -- incomprehensibly -- agreed. The guy got off free. Now, maybe they were his entries into the Hemingway Competition, but I kinda doubt it. They were posted to a board that was a known haven for child pornographers, not a literary magazine. Still, no children were actually harmed in their writing. Does that make it okay? Sorry, not in my books. If anything, this case is an excellent example of just how insane it truly is sometimes.