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Criminal Charges Dismissed After Plea Entered in Lolicon (shhhh!) Case 25 Mar 2012 | 09:57 am
In June 2011, after Ryan Matheson was arrested entering Canada with his laptop containing images from lolicon doujinshi, the Canadian Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund and the American Comic Book Legal...
LDP (Japan), under ECPAT Guidance, Proposes Lolicon Ban Again 19 Oct 2011 | 12:50 pm
The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), Japan's strongest right-wing political party, has once again again introduced legislation to criminalize the possession of “child pornography” And once aga...
Dress-Up Gets Knickers in a Twist 29 Aug 2011 | 09:19 am
As anyone who pays even the slightest attention to the mainstream media knows, the public hunger for media frenzy surrounding images of minors is insatiable. The latest is the outpouring of moronic mo...
Webeweb's Sandi and Lily Speak Out: "We are NOT Victims" 24 Jun 2011 | 01:34 pm
The notion of there being "victims" of the Webeweb child modeling websites is ridiculous. "Victims" of photos, fully clothed? It trivializes the very concept of victimhood. Now come Sandi and and Lily...
Florida v. Greaves (Nice try, Otto!) 4 Jan 2011 | 10:06 am
Kemp Brinson over at Polk Law Blog was kind enough to provide some feedback on part (3), pointing out the flaw in my analysis regarding the unconstitutionality of Florida statutes § 847.011(1)(c). Bot...
What Greaves Lost By Not Challenging His Extradition (Part 2) 31 Dec 2010 | 03:28 pm
This probably can’t be said enough: Phillip Greaves’ text is not a “how to” book and it’s not a ‘guidebook’ to molesting children. Whether one thinks it’s poorly written, outrageous or immoral, much o...
Greaves Arrest and Extradition Poses Grave Legal Questions (Part 1) 26 Dec 2010 | 02:59 pm
Obscenity lawyer Larry Walters told AVN on December 21st that the prosecution of Phillip Greaves under Florida obscenity law may be fatally flawed on the basis that Greaves was charged under a statute...
Availability of Real Child Pornography Correlated With Drop in Sex Crimes Against Children 20 Dec 2010 | 02:40 pm
Working with the Czech Ministry of Justice, three academics (Milton Diamond, University of Hawaii, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Pacific Center for Sex &; Society, Hawaii; Eva Jozifkova, J.E. Purk...
Tokyo Bans Sale of Hentai to Minors -- Shrug-worthy Regulation or Slippery Slope? 20 Dec 2010 | 03:31 am
On December 15, 2010, Tokyo passed a law prohibiting the sale to minors of any manga which "promotes illegal or immoral sexual activity." A previous law proposal to prevent the sale to minors of all d...
"Shocking" News About Some "Shocking" Photos 23 Nov 2010 | 01:39 pm
Over at The Sun, the U.K.'s premier intellectual newspaper, people are SHOCKED by the prospect of two girls, ages 8 and 9, dressing up in Lady Gaga outfits (YES, the MEAT dress - ugh - I mean, couldn'...