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Article #289Re: What is pornography, anyway?
From: Daniel Zabetakis
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:54
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:54
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In article <4015@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.162614.356@news.columbia.edu> dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
>
[still argueing about porn and child-porn. I don't think we have much
disagreement, but let's give it another go-around]
>
>>Does there have to be sexual activity depicted?
>
>Yup. That's what "conduct" means. Even narrower: *explicit*, not simulated,
>not hinted, *explicit*.
>
>See? Simple.
>
I don't think this is correct. By sexual activity, I mean a child or
child plus another person actually doing something sexual. Like having sex
or oral sex, or the like.
But I think it is also illegal if a child is posed in a way that suggests
sex to a reasonable person. So a nude standing child shouldn't be porn, but
a child posed with legs spread in a typical 'sex' pose should be. It is this
part that causes the difficulty.
danZ
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