Looking at a porn of a 20 year old dressed up in a schoolgirls uniform could be construed as virtual child porn. Not that you find many half naked chicks in schoolgirls uniforms on the web
Vulcan
Or even on MTV (not quite naked) a la Brittney Spears.
Here’s a site that shows how such broadly written legislation can be misused. Perhaps some of our Canadian friends are familiar with the Spacemoose cartoon that regularly appeared from 1989 to about 2000 in the University of Alberta student newspaper, The Gateway. The strip is written by Adam Thrasher, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta. The strip's protagonist, Spacemoose, is an entirely nihilistic moose from outer space that is purely a function of his own id. He does whatever feels good, with little regard for anyone’s feelings but his own basic pleasures.
It's easy to miss the point with Spacemoose, since the strips are totally over the top and certainly in bad taste. In general, Thrasher picks knee-jerk subjects that provoke the strongest politically correct, censor the bastard response from people not open to any criticism or discussion on beliefs they hold scared. He doesn’t just push puttons to tweak a politically correct response -- he smashes them with a sledge hammer.
So far, strips bashing ultra feminism (as in Andrea Dworkin -- check her and Catherine McKinnon out sometimes….shudder) and fundamental Christianity (Jack Chick style) have provoked the greatest response. It's interesting to follow the backlash from outraged individuals, who call for censoring the strip. Their logic gets pretty thin as they try to justify such actions in legitimate terms, without saying what you can read behind each word: "...the strip pisses me off, I don't want to hear it, so your voice and arguments should be silenced."
With his strip “Clobbering Time,” he attacks the “Take Back the Night” program where females symbolically march to take back the night from the oppression of male dominated sexual violence. The strip shows Spacemoose and his cohorts providing armed resistance. I believe Thrasher thought the whole movement a bit overboard, particularly with the militant, militaristic overtones behind the program where there was clearly an us (females) and a them (males). It was an obvious parody, but an obvious hot button tweak that got him fined and the strip removed from the university Web site (he eventually won on appeal).
Why is this on topic again? The reasoning for his censure was because some of the women felt “threatened” victimized and unsafe because of a visual depiction of male vs. female violence that many, myself included, found entertaining and humorous in the broader and subtle context behind the strip. You get the feeling that they were more disturbed by his opinions and attack on the Women’s Studies program than any real personal fear from a cartoon, and that they were using the broad campus policy on threatening environments as a tool to get him silenced.
Here’s the link, check out Antler's of the Dammed (under Controversies) and the Archives (early/mid 90s on the best) for a good laugh if it’s your thing. (Adult humor, so surf accordingly)
Clobberin' Time Charon
PS Here'a teaser, not from the strip in question but certainly related to the topic
