Some of you may have heard of this already but i’m curious what you all think….
Should someone be convicted for posessing drawings of nude children?
That’s what happened to Christopher Handley who had amassed a collection of any manga he could get his hands on. That meant sometimes getting shipments with random manga inside and inside one of these japanese graphic novels their were drawings of nude children.
He now faces up to 15 years in prison possibly.
Here’s the full articled on wired.com.
The reason I choose an image of Astroboy is because he exemplifies a drawing that is basically a robot kid with his shirt off and in underwear. But no one freaks out about it. If you see the show…you realize he’s a robot kid and that there’s nothing coming close to anything perverse.
It still shows that japanese culture has less of a problem with nudity in general because you’d never see a child superhero with his shirt off…robot or not.
What do you think?
This reminds me of what happened to Paul Reubens — he collects vintage erotica, but was brought to trial for possession of child pornography. I guess it depends a great deal on point-of-view, even though the reigning opinion still seems to be that of Justice Stewart — “I can’t define pornography, but I know it when I see
it.”