Re: Child Porn as Thoughtcrime

Rick Smith wrote:

: ...the "little girls in leotards" case was only a few years ago, etc.)

Don't know about that one. Is it illegal for little girls to be photographed in leotards now? "Nutcracker" is X rated? Move over, Bambi.

But this proves precisely Tim's original point, that child pornography is a thoughtcrime. Here's a working definition of child pornography at the end of the millenium: it's a picture of a child, in the hands of a pedophile. Pictures of girls in leotarfds are not child pornography per se, but if you think evil thoughts while watching them, then they become child pornography. What got Stephen Knox in trouble was leaving so much evidence that he was thinking those evil thoughts.