My Yubisaki Milk Tea, Gunslinger Girl, etc. collection would probably land me in some trouble in Iowa, though.

Really they should stop doing stuff like this, it's just drawn and fake pictures! How about we catch the people beating real children and touching them! No cant do that, the real bad guys are the ones with pictures! -Huffs- Pictures are hurting no one, really I rather see fake drawn pictures then people resorting to real things. -Shutters-

Anyone who gets caught with this kind of thing deserves whatever punishment they get. It's the 21st century. Surely people can come up with better ways to hide their sensitive documents.

Fluzzy is right.

This is like if you have a comic book with people getting dismembered and decapited, you have actually murdered them.

It's just drawing. No real crime there.

The whole thing seems a little absurd to me, but I suppose I can at least understand where the folks of Iowa are coming from. I agree with Excel, if you're gonna have it around at least be creative about hiding it. Really I'd like to know who snitched on the man, I mean I know I don't regularly go looking under mattresses for stuff.

To the average person, effectively this would seem as a step towards actual child pornography, so I can see completely where Iowa are coming from. Although then again, they are just drawings after all.

@The_Kenji:
People found to hide smut anywhere near a bed deserve the highest possible punishment compared to people who are a little smarter than that.

Oh yeah, drawings are very bad, but when there is an actual case of child abuse it takes years to get anything done because nobody ever believes the damn child, not the family nor the authorities.

@ Fluzzy

If you're 8 years-old I can understand how you hold such a childish opinion but otherwise you really do need to actually think about the issue a little and form a real view on it.

The problem with these kinds of cases is that they don't specify exactly what the person gets busted with. If it's straight up drawings of child porn then it's child porn and he's trying to do a bullshit run-around on the law. If it's loli manga then it's a bit more grey but the chances are reasonable that there's a history if someone is getting 15 years for buying a copy of Santa is a Shithead. Then there's the exceptionally rare case where someone is getting hassled for buying something that's tackling difficult issues and some idiot managed to stumble upon the three frames of a naked kid and ran to FOX news with it.

I'm willing to bet that this guy was buying a dozen copies of "Super Loli Rape Sex with my Little Sister" and associates heavily with pedophile associations and thus deserves some sort of fine at the very least.

And upon reading the preceding article to this one, are you fucking serious Brad? You're comparing something done by Alan Moore (who while I'm not a huge fan of recognise that he isn't putting demented fantasies into print to sell to people) to loli smut rags? I guess that guro porn should be made a national treasure of Japan because there are good movies with violence in them.

This is bullshit, and it's actually scaring me into not ordering anymore loli eromanga. Where's the justice in that?

Well, I guess I'm safe here in the UK. As long as the drawings aren't pseudo-photographs, I'm alright. I don't like them like that anyways.

Remember back in the day when they arrested & sentenced people who did things that actually HARMED people? Why can't the police be like the old times & focus on murderers, robbers, & such?

I know this has come up before, but if this is the whole story, then it's just a crusade by authorities to say, oh we locked another one of them up, they are fighting the fight against pedofiles, etc, etc to win votes.

I believe we are more educated than the masses here and can think about this rationally, that these are just drawings and this has no real effect on reality.

For example, in my state the legal age is 16, so you can sleep with a 16 year old as a 25 year old, but if you take pictures of said act, then you now are in possession of child pornography, how about that?

@dark
Same in the UK.
In fact I seem to remember a story of a few 16 year olds sending out pictures and getting arrested for distribution.
The catch? They were sending them to their sexual partners.

How odd.

First I do not know what this guys collection contained.

Second I believe there is a fine line here just like anything in life. If you look at the drawing or read the manga or watch the anime and just do that there is no real prom i think but if you do all that and go around harm and acting out what you saw read or watch then there you are crossing that fine line. I guess the old saying is true here as well "It only takes one to ruin it for the rest"

Third They are picture. It is "possible" no real child were harm in any way of the making of said pictures. But on the other hand it is possible they are trying to prevent the thought of physically harm a child in any way is alright.

Fourth @Fluzzy
what if some one read/saw said so called child porn manga and pictures or anime and got the idea it was ok to go out and preform said acts with a minor. this maybe what they are trying to prevent in this case.

As you can see Fluzzy it is very hard to determine where or not if it is a appropriate thing or not.

lastly what will happen to all the none hentai anime that involve children as their main characters?

srry found som type-os
First I do not know what this guys collection contained.

Second I believe there is a fine line here just like anything in life. If you look at the drawing or read the manga or watch the anime and just do that there is no real problem i think. But if you do all that and go around harm and acting out what you saw read or watch then there you are crossing that fine line. I guess the old saying is true here as well "It only takes one to ruin it for the rest"

Third They are picture. It is "possible" no real child were harm in any way of the making of said pictures. But on the other hand it is possible they are trying to prevent the thought of physically harm a child in any way is alright.

Fourth @Fluzzy
what if some one read/saw said so called child porn manga and pictures or anime and got the idea it was ok to go out and preform said acts with a minor. This maybe what they are trying to prevent in this case.

As you can see Fluzzy it is very hard to determine where or not if it is a appropriate thing or not.

lastly what will happen to all the none hentai anime that involve children as their main characters?

God damn it. Nobody deserves to be punished for loli manga. At all. We should be able to have that stuff on our fucking shelves.

That's what the first amendment is FOR.

Now, if the laws made it explicitly illegal, then that would change two things.

1) The law would be wrong (but hey, you still have to follow it.)

2) The people violating the law would be wrong, and they'd be taking their chances.

But with our poorly-worded obscenity law, this stuff is NOT illegal. I hope everyone involved in getting Handley sentenced, and everyone clapping, get both aids and cancer and then are cured of it. By fire.

*sigh* I really shouldn't be seeing *my* people weighing in with the bad guys on this one. I need to find out if there are any organizations working on fighting this; last I saw, ACLU was staying out of it.

Yeah; both ACLU and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund are stuck because he pled guilty. :/ Maybe he was right to do so.
I've been donating to ACLU, but not CBLDF.

I don't see any reason for the obscenity wording to be in there at all. If it doesn't harm anyone directly (if it's not kiddie porn) then it shouldn't matter HOW obscene it is. I've never seen 2g1cup, but it should not be a punishable offense for me to see it, or for me to buy or sell it or enact it with willing partners. As long as I don't show it to juveniles or in public, it and worse should be allowed.