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Federal law aimed at protecting children from sexual exploitation
Most authoritative statutes aimed at operate at the federal level and target visual depictions, while states vary and rarely criminalize purely written or fictional narratives about minors except wher...
law draws a firm line between sexual depictions involving real children—which the has treated as unprotected child pornography—and purely fictional or animated sexual content, which is regulated prima...
The federal guidelines calculate a offender’s guideline “offense level” by starting with a statutory or guideline base offense level and then adding specific offense-characteristic enhancements tied t...
Federal law makes it a crime to produce, distribute, receive, transport, advertise, access with intent to view, and possess child sexual abuse material (CSAM), primarily through statutes codified in T...
Federal courts have treated as a narrow but potent avenue to criminalize non-photographic depictions—including manga and anime—only when those works are found obscene under established obscenity law r...
courts have repeatedly confronted whether criminal laws can reach “virtual” —anime, manga or drawn depictions often called lolicon—and the answers are mixed: and several federal judges have struck dow...