So-called "barely legal" pornography and content depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives are set to be banned amid efforts to regulate intimate image sharing.
Bit late on this, but drawn CSAM is used by predators to groom minors by getting them to see themselves as legitimate targets of sexual interest by adults. That doesn’t really apply to other fetishes.
This doesn’t suggest an inherent issue with the material itself, though.
I have been groomed as a minor myself and I assure you that the art wasn’t some magic key that made it possible, it was ultimately as always my personal relationship with my groomer that made the process work. Banning lolicon stuff won’t fix that, and given how many survivors of grooming I’ve met who end up into it or adjacent things that are usually also banned by these laws, seem to me that it’d end up hurting far more victims than it helps.
As far as I could tell 99.9% of lolicon art (I do not approve of the term drawn CSAM unless it’s a drawing based off a real child) had absolutely no association with actual predators at all and was just drawn by and for weird weebs anyway.
Bit late on this, but drawn CSAM is used by predators to groom minors by getting them to see themselves as legitimate targets of sexual interest by adults. That doesn’t really apply to other fetishes.
This doesn’t suggest an inherent issue with the material itself, though.
I have been groomed as a minor myself and I assure you that the art wasn’t some magic key that made it possible, it was ultimately as always my personal relationship with my groomer that made the process work. Banning lolicon stuff won’t fix that, and given how many survivors of grooming I’ve met who end up into it or adjacent things that are usually also banned by these laws, seem to me that it’d end up hurting far more victims than it helps.
As far as I could tell 99.9% of lolicon art (I do not approve of the term drawn CSAM unless it’s a drawing based off a real child) had absolutely no association with actual predators at all and was just drawn by and for weird weebs anyway.