>>52952
Well one can't say for certain… HOWEVER, under the letter of the law, there's this nasty little bit about making reasonable assertions based on available evidence… so while you couldn't be arrested (in the United States) for simply possessing cartoon depictions of child porn… it could most certainly be used as a form of probable cause to get a search warrant, take your computer and scour through every last byte looking for incriminating evidence.
What's even worse is that you often get overzealous prosecutors, many of which are ELECTED and, as such, they want some easy targets to create bullshit stats with to try and win over voters… so they'll try and nail anyone to the fuckin wall if they think it'll help their reelection campaigns.
The bottom line is that you're playing with fire and you don't seem to grasp just how dangerous it is… to you if you get caught, convicted and forever branded and to real people if you ever try and act on your sexual nature.
If you were thinking rationally, at all… you would not take the risk, especially when there are *MUCH* better alternatives. They actually make these nifty pills that act like anti-Viagra that will completely kill off your sex drive for about 30 days… which, you know, would be a RATIONAL decision to make, not only to avoid the legal danger of getting caught pleasuring yourself to kiddy porn, but also to avoid ever acting on such desires.
And, once again, that "video games cause violence" comparison… doesn't hold up. Because it requires that players are of sound mind and body. If you are a crazy nutball… you should not be playing violent video games and they WILL encourage you to act upon such preexisting desires.
That's the point… when the vast majority of people play violent video games they are not inherently violent people, they are not people who have any genuine/underlying interest in killing people or whatever… but when you take someone WHO ALREADY HAS AN UNDERLYING DESIRE… and then they play a violent video game… yeah, yeah that's fuckin stupid. That's as stupid as selling guns to crazy people.
If you are mentally unhinged you should NOT be buying guns, you should NOT be playing violent video games and you should NOT be looking at pictures of naked children!
Pedophiles are inherently mentally unhinged to some degree or another. And even the ones who largely try and refrain from acting on their sordid interests only need ONE choice opportunity to fuck up and… they'll take it. Pedophiles are predatory in nature and more than often opportunistic. If you've read any court cases involving pedos or seen interviews, especially with "first time offenders"… that's almost always the excuse… that they had a "moment of weakness" and gave in to their desires when a choice opportunity arose.
Artistic expression is one thing… blatant fap fodder is another… if you want to take the risk and roll the dice on your life over a bunch of shitty child porn cartoons… hey, you do you man. You're the one who has to live with the consequences if your life is all fucked up as a result.
PS - Without easy access to such pictures/communities they would feel greater stigma and shame for what it is they're attracted to and in turn would be more inclined to get help, rather than congregate with like-minded lunatics. You know… like how 3rd Wave Feminism was born via kooks compiling their crazy together on Tumblr and Twitter… to the point where they've now fucked society all up in every other direction imaginable.
Pedos aren't any different, just another side to the same crazy coin.