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Child Pornography or Art? Is there a line, if so where?
est:
That hasn't changed my reply one iota, but I won't derail the thread any further.
Luke C:
Ah the old pornography and art deabte.
Read this:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/
Specifically the points about pornography.
99% of the time there is a clear difference between child porn and pictures/paintings of naked children. It is quite blatant to anyone who is not simply being pedantic about it.
As has been mentioned earlier the case in the UK with the woman who had pictures of her children in the bath was just ridiculous.
A bit similar to this ^
Is a painting of a child neccesasrily porn? No, there are naked children on the ceiling in the sistine chapel! There is a line somewhere and I'm not the one to draw it but I would say a lot of the arguement on both sides of this debate is pointless or misses the point altogether.
Emaline:
Is this child porn? It's Edvard Munch's Puberty. The girl in the painting(who posed, I believe) is no more than 13. What makes it porn/not porn?
HellStorm:
Its art, because there is no sexual content
pi:
I think we might have covered this in parts or in reference, but I would like to consolidate:
I would say that child nudes are OK, and child pornography is not. The difference here is a presence of expressed sexual acts. (if the girl has a finger in her fun hole: bad, if there's a naked man sporting an erection next to her: also bad) I have some more specific guidelines here, but that is not the point.
The reasoning for this is that children are not harmed by merely having their picture taken (though their consent should be mandatory, with the exception of the case where one of the parents is the photographer), but they are harmed by forced sexual acts that they do not understand.
Digitally manipulated images may depict anything they like as they do not directly harm anyone, though they should generally be frowned upon. Measures to ensure that the photographs were truly digitally manipulated, and are not real, should be taken. One possibility is mandating the source materials for any such media be publicly available.
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