Lawrence Allen Stanley is an American lawyer who made a career as a New York Attorney, defending in cases that included child pornography.
Experience in this area led Stanley to write articles on the subject of child pornography, notably “The Hysteria Over Child Pornography and Paedophilia”, later published in Playboy as “The Child Pornography Myth”.
Regarding kids, there can’t be other opinion (I’ll try to explain why in a one of the next posts) – “do not touch them!”. But the biggest problem is the definition of the term “child porno”. What is considered “children pornography”?
Part I explains some of the major legal points. But what if it’s manga we are talking about? Common sense tells us that drawings are by no means related to child porno. Because … Hm… the depicted subjects simply do not exist! However, some legal authorities think otherwise…
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