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He isn’t the only one. Mr, the most eccentric member of Takashi Murakami’s stable of pop artists, admits he suffers from lolicon, and recruited junior idols to star in his 2008 film, “Nobody Dies.”
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Drawn though? that's just artistic expression. Sure we can debate about whether or not something like Koi Kaze is really art or if something like Kodomo no Jikan is teetering toward the questionable side, but that's beside the point. The point is it's fake. It's part of someone's expression no matter how perverse their expression is intentionally trying to be, and it didn't involve harming anyone. I mean, has no one in Japan heard where the term Lolita came from?
That said, not that many Americans have that good an understanding of etymology either =P
I think possession of child pornography should be outlawed, but I think the wording of such laws should leave some wiggle room for, say, people who get a hold of child pornography and immediately report it to the police. I mean, it would be bad if people feel like they might get arrested for merely carrying it to the police station since it would keep people from reporting this crime.