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Originally Posted by GoNative
It's pretty much 18 anywhere in the world isn't?
It's not just the virtual stuff. The issue is it is not illegal to possess child pornography of any kind here in Japan. Because of this it is becoming a major resource for child pornography as it is one of the very few countries in the world where you can possess such stuff and not be thrown in jail. I'd hope that there'd not be anyone on here who would try and defend peoples right to possess child pornography? This is part of the law here that truly needs changing and quickly.
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I don't know how it is all around the world, I just know America and Japan. There it is 18, so when an article says "under 20" equals pedophilia, I have to point it out.
But really it is just the virtual stuff. Read the articles you posted. Japan is not the majority source of actual child abuse pornography. The problem is defining virtual child pornography as actual child pornography. This doesn't really exist in the West, so dealing with this hasn't been an issue.