Date: Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 06:32 pm (UTC)
The Home Office has issued a consultation document (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2007-depiction-sex-abuse?view=Binary) discussing whether non-photographic visual depictions of child sex abuse should be criminalised. Reading it, the key concern seems to be extreme animé-style material or CGI, but the latter clearly extends into MMORPG avatars. At present, the law bans photographs and 'pseudo-photographs' - simulated images that appear real - but is silent on the matter of non-realistic images.

I can see several problems with this, not least of which is a huge blurring of what is and is not acceptable material. Bearing in mind that a little-appreciated consequence of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 was to raise the cut-off age for child pornography from 16 to 18, could this make any drawing of a teenage girl in a sexy pose potentially suspect? And the less said about furry pix - especially since anthropomorphised animals are often seen as having child-like attributes - the better...
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