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Sin
04-22-2013, 07:52 PM
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8577037/Man-sent-to-jail-for-watching-pixie-sex


A man has been jailed for watching cartoon videos of elves, pixies and other fantasy creatures having sex.

Ronald Clark downloaded the Japanese anime cartoons three years ago, setting in train events that would see him in court in Auckland and jailed for three months for possessing objectionable material, and sparking debate as to what harm is caused by digitally created pornography.

Clark has previous convictions for indecently assaulting a teenage boy and has been through rehabilitation programmes, but the video nasties he was watching in this case were all cartoons and drawings.

He says the videos came from an established tradition of Japanese manga and hentai (cartoon pornography), a massive, mainstream industry in that country.

They weren't even depictions of people - Clark's lawyer Roger Bowden described them as "pixies and trolls" that "you knew at a glance weren't human".

Bowden said the conviction for possessing objectionable material was "the law gone mad".

However, while the cartoon characters were elves and pixies, they were also clearly young elves and pixies, which led to concerns the images were linked to child sexual abuse.

Anti-child pornography group ECPAT Child Alert director Alan Bell said the images were illegal because they encouraged people "to migrate from there to the real thing".

"The distribution of it is damaging. You have to ask what impact does it have even if it's not harming [an individual child]."

Bell said it had to be conceded that no child was harmed in the images' production but "it's all part of that spectrum". Cartoon images of child abuse were a "huge" problem in Japan and the practice had started finding its way into computer games, he said

Lincoln University philosophy lecturer Grant Tavinor, who writes on the aesthetics of video games, said the case raised two key questions: Did producing the pictures harm anyone, and could their viewing and distribution be injurious to the public good?

"The worry is that viewing or distributing such images could support the sexual exploitation of children even if the production of the images did not actually involve the exploitation of any children," Tavinor said. It's not enough that no one was harmed in the making of the videos, the law takes a protective role and says there are some things we just don't want circulating in society, he said.

Auckland University associate philosophy professor Tim Dare said "the justifications for punishment are likely to be worries about the tendency of the images to promote harm to real people in the future, or a concern for what the interest in the images tells you about their ‘character' ".

Clark himself argued that the law led to the absurdity that he could, in theory, be convicted of possessing objectionable images of stick figures.

Clark admitted he was interested in the images but he said it was for their artistic merit and as "a bit of a laugh". He did not find them sexually arousing, he said.

Tavinor said there were ethical issues that complicated the case.

"The ways a person entertains themself is not morally negligible. This is probably an additional factor in the current case because as well as worrying about the effects these activities might have on children, we also naturally make moral judgments about the character of the person in question.

"But for the purposes of law it is probably important to distinguish between these because convicting someone for their moral views is very dangerous."

Well shit... If I dont come online for a bit, you know why.

eduardo230
04-22-2013, 08:43 PM
Well i have nothing against Hentai. But I hate Loli. Its just disgusting. And should be prohibited even if it has censorship. Also with types of Pornography that are abusive, sush as violations doesn't matter if its cartoon.

senrath
04-22-2013, 08:45 PM
I wish I could say that this is something new, but I'm pretty sure this is not the first time something like this has happened.

That said, loli creeps me the fuck out.

Neznam
04-22-2013, 09:00 PM
Wow, as unappealing Hentai to me is, this is just ridiculous.

EDIT: I don't know what loli is, but I can guess to stay away lol

Ian
04-22-2013, 09:01 PM
What is this loli thing?

senrath
04-22-2013, 09:03 PM
It's short for lolicon. It's cartoon child porn.

Ian
04-22-2013, 09:12 PM
That's disturbing :O

rj
04-22-2013, 09:31 PM
It's disgusting. I'd never even think about watching it. But who is the government to tell somebody what they can and can't watch? It's none of their business, watching movies with rape in them will might aswell be censored because "they might promote rape"

Sin
04-22-2013, 11:49 PM
Loli is stupid AF. I have nothing against normal Hentai, but Loli and child porn in general just piss me off.

t4q
04-23-2013, 10:47 AM
This kind of movies are sickening :/

Sawyer
04-24-2013, 02:53 AM
All of the quotation marks and lawyer speak.. gah... Look up the CFAA and you will never look at our government the same way again. (U.S.) also, look up whether or not police are legally obligated to protect you in the U.S. You will be surprised.

King
04-24-2013, 03:44 AM
All of the quotation marks and lawyer speak.. gah... Look up the CFAA and you will never look at our government the same way again. (U.S.) also, look up whether or not police are legally obligated to protect you in the U.S. You will be surprised.

Dd a project on this type of thing in government ( actual legal duties of law enforcement, judges, lawyers ect..) it is scary /:

Sawyer
04-24-2013, 03:59 AM
Dd a project on this type of thing in government ( actual legal duties of law enforcement, judges, lawyers ect..) it is scary /:

The sad thing is that most people don't even know :(

hamster31
04-24-2013, 03:18 PM
So you mean to tell me that me going online and clicking on a porno of hentai will lead me to search for child pornography? how is that a correlation. I mean, really me playing runescape should lead me to start going in to woods(wilderness) and start attacking people? or me watching James bond will make me become a secret agent? or me watching fast and furious will lead me to race cars(Well that one actually did).

Regardless of their belief, I don't think that watching Hentai will lead to an escalation to Child Porn. I despise that completely and it is shameful that we all take the moral high ground when the spotlight is on us but we are all as dark and ugly as the one next to us.

n3ss3s
04-25-2013, 12:06 AM
Basically means you can go to jail for drawing something?

grats
04-25-2013, 12:22 AM
Basically means you can go to jail for drawing something?

Good thing I suck at drawing, my stick figures have no age

n3ss3s
04-25-2013, 04:49 AM
Good thing I suck at drawing, my stick figures have no age

Be careful, stick figures = no boobs = prepubescent = gf

grats
04-25-2013, 11:59 AM
Be careful, stick figures = no boobs = prepubescent = gf

oh crap, you're right!

I'm going to prison for life probably

Timba
04-25-2013, 01:23 PM
*sigh* Jailing someone for watching pixles? :cartman:

Ian
04-25-2013, 02:38 PM
Be careful, stick figures = no boobs = prepubescent = gf

Haha, you have a point :D

n3ss3s
04-25-2013, 08:46 PM
Someone gave me neg rep as a scammer on the first post I made on this topic? lolwat

Sin
04-25-2013, 11:07 PM
Someone gave me neg rep as a scammer on the first post I made on this topic? lolwat

scammer