Have I suddenly lost my command of English?

[trixtah]

Look, I'm having a really wanky set of interchanges over on vintage_sex regarding a post someone made which linked to a bunch of erotic drawings - one of which featuring a representation of a man having sex with a child.

I objected quite strenuously to the link being posted without warning, and now I'm being told that the image concerned was not "child porn", and - patronisingly - my own experiences are essentially colouring my perception of what the situation is. I'm not denying the latter fact, but I also don't think my PoV is irrelevant here.

So, is a picture (a drawn one) that features an adult man having sex with a child "child-porn" or not? If not, why not, because I really am not understanding the point these people are making.

Here's the discussion thread, if you'd like to look. I'm not trying to rope anyone into the argument on my behalf - I'm wanting to know if there is something really obvious about what they're saying that I'm failing to grok. I also think I would be a lot less irked about this if the OP acknowledged that perhaps a warning would have been in order.

Thank you.

Comments

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

I think there might be some jurisdictional issues at play here. I don't know about New Zealand, but in Australia a lot of material that is available for sale in the US is banned.

For example, via our Office of Film and Literature Classification laws, import regs ban the importation of anything (including drawings, 'toons etc) that appears to depict a person under the age of 18 in a sexual act.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Yes. I am in US. I think whether drawings (or 3-d animation) count might vary with locality over here. Frankly, I haven't any reason to pay close attention. But I am troubled by use of a program which is sold, locally, as a means to stop child exploitation, being used to punish those who possess graphics that do not involve that. If it is done to stop exploitation, fine. If it is being done because the bureaucrats involved don't care for the subject matter, that's not so good. In fact, I probably agree with them about the subject matter. It is still not so good.