Swedish Supreme Court Overturns National Ban On Loli Manga

glennmagusharvey

@Nova: Do you know of the legal status of the book you describe?  I'm curious about it, and curious to compare it to the legal or other restricted status of books about committing murder and acts of terrorism.  I know at least one such book exists but I've forgotten its name.

I would wager that the Library of Congress almost certainly has a copy, but that's not quite your local public library.  Otherwise, the number of extant copies of such a book are probably few and far between because few publishers would be willing to be associated with such content.

Would be interesting if books like these were scanned, digitalized, and distributed on the internet.  In that case, people ought to be on the lookout for them and get them takedown'd ASAP.

Nova

Do you know of the legal status of the book you describe?  I'm curious about it, and curious to compare it to the legal or other restricted status of books about committing murder and acts of terrorism.

It is legal to be sold.

Amazon sold it at one point. They then stopped distributing it. They then started distributing it again, but stopped after there was a massive outcry.

BlackHumor

Any step, no matter how minor, is something that should be avoided at all costs.

Not true: it should be avoided in the sense that you shouldn't draw it yourself, but it certainly shouldn't be avoided "at all costs". There's very little that is to be avoided "at all costs".

I agree that it normalizes the sexualization of children, and that's bad, but it's no reason to ban it. Heck, there's plenty of things that we just accept that normalize the sexualization of children, too. To go as far as banning something it has to do some kind of actual measurable harm to someone, not just be out there in the culture.

CountryPumpkin

I think the fact that the article was originally linked from Sankaku Complex illustrates most of the problems I have with this.

ClockworkUniverse

To go as far as banning something it has to do some kind of actual measurable harm to someone

Toddlers and Tiaras

y u no banned?

Forzare

this i would like to know

CountryPumpkin

It provides an outlet of agreement for upper-middle class mothers who want to live through their daughters vicariously and who actually have the means to fly their children cross-country and use them as virtual strippers because of their own perceived inadequacies insinuated by a sex- and material-obsessed media culture.

Forzare

you don't say

CountryPumpkin

pee pee, doo doo, it is a bad TV show

glennmagusharvey

Amazon sold it at one point. They then stopped distributing it. They then started distributing it again, but stopped after there was a massive outcry.

I think this is the right approach.

This is the sort of thing that ought to be legal but strongly disapproved of.

Just because something is legal does not mean that people should do it.  Same goes for a number of other things, such as protesting the funerals of soldiers killed in the line of duty.

Nova

The second line there does not really fit, as it's not so much horribly wrong as it is likely to get you fired for being a dickhead.

glennmagusharvey

I removed that example since, while it's something that's technically in the same category, it's stupid for a different reason.