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Bookshelf wrote: Wed Oct 15, 2025 9:23 am

John_Doe wrote: Tue Oct 14, 2025 6:29 pm The irony is, and this bothers me, that you can find autopsy photos of people online or pictures of dead bodies that their loved ones have to deal with being available to the general public, you can even post a video of a man being murdered but to film the statutory (or legitimate) rape of a child carries a special legal status. I can understand the idea behind criminalizing actual child porn because that can affect children or even the distribution/sharing of it as a privacy matter (even if it's consensual, maybe as an adult the child would change their mind about wanting it available to the public) but none of that applies to simulated child porn.

It reminds me of something I thought about recently. I heard an advertisement on the radio for a mobile network or something, where a parent was wondering if their friend— another parent— would have the coverage to livestream a birth. I thought that was an odd thing to joke about; so I looked around to see if that's something people actually do. It is. There are entire social media pages dedicated to it, and people document even the more private moments of it for their family and friends to watch for some reason.

This is in a country where you can be arrested for being in possession of a drawn image of a naked child. You can watch a real life naked child come out of a gaping hole on a livestream, a traumatic private first moment in a child's life, without ever questioning the ability for the child to consent to complete strangers watching it— all while if you open up another tab with an anime kid's penis, you'll get the door kicked in for... violating a fictional kid's consent or something.

Stupid world.