(11-06-2014, 09:36 PM)Mae Wrote: As for the "only the character is a Minor" thing... it depends on so many things. Laws in the country wanting to prosecute, the explicitness of the act in question, the medium used. Big-name writers have both editors and legal teams that keep them from crossing lines
-- Random factoid I discovered on the internet: some "dating sim" games and "hentai comics" feature characters that are under 18; in their country of origin they're legal but in order for these items to be sold to other countries, localization teams change dialogues and bios to make the characters fit the regions they're selling to so consumers don't run afoul of child pornography laws.
No, they really don't in the United States at least. We have this thing called the first ammendment that criminalizing this would violate.
As for your random fact, it's because virtual images have since been criminalized, but not written words, no one is talking about images here.
