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Drawing porn of child characters from comics or cartoons is ILLEGAL in the United States

lemonbubble:

thefloweryfanclub:

18 U.S. Code § 1466A - Obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children                                                                 

(a)In General.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly produces, distributes, receives, or possesses with intent to distribute, a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that—                    

(1)                        

• (A)    depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and
  
• (B)    is obscene; or                                                                

(2)                     

•   (A)    depicts an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and 
  
•    (B)    lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value;  or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 2252A(b)(1), including the penalties provided for cases involving a prior conviction.                                

(b)Additional Offenses.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly possesses a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that—                    

(1)                 

•      (A)        depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and                      
  
• (B)      is obscene; or                                                                

(2)                       

• (A)   depicts an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and                                                
• (B)   lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value; or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 2252A(b)(2), including the penalties provided for cases involving a prior conviction.                                

©Nonrequired Element of Offense.  It is not a required element of any offense under this section that the minor depicted actually exist. Source

Here are some recent cases and convictions.

Most recent conviction seems to be May 2016. That’s this month.

When abusive adults in fandoms prey on the children in them, try to spread that it’s okay to draw child porn of the child characters, to sexualize the child characters, they are breaking the law and encouraging minors to break the law. The law doesn’t care if you use it as a “coping mechanism” (even forgetting that abused people can become abusers themselves). This is illegal and it can get you imprisoned.

Please boost this. Not enough people know the law exists and big-name artists routinely bully people, survivors, minors into believing that spreading child porn in their fandoms is okay and to do it themselves. It’s not, and it can get rebloggers arrested for possessing and spreading obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.                 

For international artists: whatever website you’re using has to follow the laws of the country it’s based in, and that means you have to work within those laws too.

At the very least, I know this is illegal in New Zealand too. Also, look at this quote I found while I was researching to make sure those laws applied to drawn images too (they do): “regardless of the nature of the image it is still child pornography and should never be minimised.”

Look at that, “regardless of the nature of the image”. Its just fanart? They’re fictional? It’s only a drawing? regardless of the nature of the image it is still child pornography motherfucker