I agree that thought is impossible to police and am not convinced that we should even try. It's the distribution of material that depicts child abuse and child rape that I am talking about. As far as I'm aware, anime and manga never really took off in the west for whatever reason but in Japan there are millions who buy it and, by inference, enjoy looking at fantasy children being abused - sometimes violently or horrifyingly, but always sexually.

It's not so long ago that a raging debate was going on about whether images of real child abuse should be banned. The west took that course back quite early in comparison to Japan, which didn't take that course until 1999, according to that article. Should more pressure have been applied to Japan to introduce laws against such material earlier and should pressure now be applied to encourage the sale and distribution of cartoon/pixel child abuse to be banned there?