Definitely. And it's not just legislators who think that way, either. The entire conservative movement, along with sex-negative feminists, is putting pressure on lawmakers to pass more restrictive laws. Many news outlets covering legal cases involving such material have been calling it "cartoon child pornography" or "anime child pornography" for decades.Aspire6 wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 2:42 am It is my belief that the long-term goal of legislators in the US is to get anything considered "obscene" in terms of depicting fictional minors classified the same, if not nearly the same, as child pornography.
My worry is that those MAPs will be content with fictional erotica, and perhaps child love dolls, being legal, and won't ever push for further reform regarding youth rights and AMSC.Aspire6 wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 2:42 am I would imagine the fear of fictional erotica being fully illegal could be a good-enough push for more MAPs, especially in the USA, who utilize it to become vocal activists as they are the target of such changes. Finding good ways to safely advocate can be difficult though, so it is hard to say what change may occur.
The reason I'm afraid of that is my own experience as a young activist. In my teens, I focused entirely on defending "obscene" fiction and opposing other forms of censorship. That was compatible with a strictly anti-contact, assimilationist stance, which I now realize was inadequate in many respects, if only due to being an inevitable cause of self-loathing and ego-dystonia for me, but also and most importantly because the current system is harmful for children as well in many ways.
Of course, making sure that fictional erotica involving children is allowed and protected by law is still much better than the alternative.
