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May 29, 2008


UK Targets Paedophilic Drawings With The Potential Of Three-Year Sentences

United Kingdom Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Justice Maria Eagle is apparently backing a plan that will criminalize the possession of drawings that depict sex with underage participants. It's couched in terms of closing a loophole that allows pedophiles to get their rocks off, I guess, veering away from the exploitation of actual minors standard that drives photography laws and the leads-to-same argument that usually drives such legislation. The statement from the politician contains the usual "we don't intend this to be an attack on art" caveats, although how this actually gets applied seems to me won't be bound by such declarations at all. I have no idea what could happen, but the first thing most of you are thinking is probably what I'm thinking: wouldn't any owner of Lost Girls be subject to prosecution under such laws?
 
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