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- From: dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis)
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- Subject: Re: What is pornography, anyway?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.155802.25830@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:58:02 GMT
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- In article <9211150013.37@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >
- >But the bottom of the line federal line in the US is:
- >
- Is this a federal law? I was under the impression that it was a state
- controlled area.
-
- >Depictions of children under the age of 18 engaged in sex or posed to
- >sexually tittilate are illegal.
- >
- How do you define "posed to sexually tittilate"? Most laws on child porn
- are very bad. I gues most such laws actually illegalize much more than
- than what we would call "pornography". They are usually criticised as being
- overbroad.
-
- >The government does not have to prove whether it is pornographic or not.
- >
- Indeed not. I think they did prior to 1982. BTW, it is not "pornographic",
- but "obscene", and that's what we were debating.
- The point is that we want to stop child porn not because it is obscene, but
- because it inevitably derives from child sexual abuse. If we belive that
- children under a certain age cannot consent, then it must be against consent
- that we force them to engage in sexual activity (whether that activity is
- actual sex or just sexual poses).
- Ideally, child porn laws would become part of the general child abuse laws,
- and finally sever the connection between porn and child-porn.
-
- DanZ
-
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