However, I do wish to make it clear that I am not saying "if we ban that, then all else will be banned", I am saying that if we ban it, then we need to make sure there is a clear reason, and show that this in fact is causing the abuse, rather than merely reflecting a rather poor ideal of a society.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't depictions of child porn - even in pixel or cartoon form already banned? I believe it is, at least in California, since there was a big argument on SL (which is based there) about whether to ban it. The decision was made by them, I believe, by the courts who banned it. I also believe it is already banned in the UK, I'll have to check that, it may be done on an ad hoc basis. I know there were certainly moves within Parliament to do so.
Yes. Pornographic depictions of real life, or as mentioned in the posts above, Cartoons that are attempting to evade real life (that is they are actual cartoons/drawings of a real children) are not allowed.  There is no actual ban on the rape of anyone as long as the person who does it (in the media) is shown being punished, and the media makes sure that it is not about 'exciting' someone, especially a minor.

I do believe the operative words are 'shall not be done with intent of arousing or causing sexual arousal for the purpose of pleasure only'. That is, if you making the drawings to get someones nuts off, that's a no no. In fact that was the basis for the Movie "Child Bride" which skirted the Hays Office for many years, because they made it as an 'Educational Movie'; about on the same order as "Fox News: fair and Balanced". It had several scenes in which the actress who was 12 years old, was seen in the nude, including an upper, frontal nudity with nipples.

Plot

Miss Carol (Diana Durrell) is an idealistic teacher in a remote one-room schoolhouse. A native of the Ozarks herself, she is determined to stop the practice of child marriage, in which older men marry teen or preteen girls. Her campaign raises the ire of some local men, led by Jake Bolby (Warner Richmond), who one night drag her into the woods, tie her to a tree with the intention of tarring and feathering her. Before they can do this, however, Angelo the dwarf (Angelo Rossitto) and Mr. Colton (George Humphreys) arrive with a shotgun to save the day.

Following this, Jake Bolby comes across young Jennie Colton (Shirley Mills) swimming naked. When her father dies, Bolby decides to take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail her mother into letting him marry the girl, threatening that otherwise he will see her hanged for murder. After he "courts" Jennie by giving her a doll, the two are married. It later turns out that this ceremony was illegal, as child marriage had been banned several days prior, but this point quickly becomes moot. Before Bolby can consummate the union, he is gunned down by Angelo. Jennie leaves his house with Freddie Nulty (Bob Bollinger).


Cast notes:

  • This was Shirley Mills' first role and she would later appear in The Grapes of Wrath in 1939. She would go on to appear in many films over the next decade, mostly in supporting roles. She quit acting in her twenties to become a singer.
  • This was Bob Bollinger's only film role. According to Mills' website, now offline, the two young actors became friends, and Bollinger later asked her to marry him, which she declined.
  • Angelo Rossitto had a long career in movies, stretching from the 1920s to the 1990s. He is perhaps best known for his role as Master in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985). The reason he was billed as "Don Barrett" in this film is unknown.[4]
  • Along with Mills and Rossitto, Warner Richmond was one of the few actors involved in this film who had any sort of film career. He appeared in over 140 films between 1912 and 1946, including the Gene Autry serial The Phantom Empire (1935).

So the actual depiction of sex for the purposes of arousal or sexual pleasure of an adult, or the arousal and sexual stimulation of the child for the same is illegal.  As said though, this was used to try and ban everything from plain old Porn (the religious right used to claim that the mere existence of porn caused homosexuality and child abuse) to anything that displeased them, even if there wasn't a scene with sex in it. Any and all 'nudity' is and was being considered 'pornographic'. It ended up with parents being charged with "distribution of Pornography" because they had pictures of their children with out clothes on, not to mention books that were banned because they didn't treat sex/nudity or the Human as "Evil and Dirty".

Molly say:
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.

       

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