Nova Scotia man convicted of child pornography on shotacon anime possession

21 February 2009 - updated 15 March 2009
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Here's a small item (scroll down - the page has several different stories on it) from the Halifax Chronicle Herald about a man in Nova Scotia pleading guilty to child pornography charges for possession of materials that included shotacon anime. I'll post links to better coverage if I find them. It's not a pure banned-anime case, in that he apparently also had materials featuring real children; anime fans often cite "But I don't have any real child porn" as a Get Out Of Jail Free card and this case doesn't directly contradict that. But I don't think any reasonable argument can be made that the Canadian authorities will leave you alone just because you don't have any pictures of real children. I hear that Dwight Whorley's conviction in the USA has been upheld, too - though some appeals still remain - so being in the USA isn't Get Out Of Jail Free card either. The statutes and prosecutors' interpretations thereof in both places are pretty clearly intended to cover purely fictional material.

Comments

owen from 99.255.160.111 at Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:40:40 +0000:
So how does this affect the Strip-o-meter?

Matt from 216.59.226.11 at Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:51:02 +0000:
It doesn't - Jen is well over 18, and anyway at the rate we're going, the current insanity over underage sexuality will be just an horrifying memory long before she reaches full nudity.

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