> Depictions in real life that would be illegal should remain illegal in the synthetic world. I think creative works would be severely limited if nothing illeg

> Depictions in real life that would be illegal should remain illegal in the synthetic world. I think creative works would be severely limited if nothing illegal could be depicted within them. If you're arguing only pornographic content should carry this restriction, I'd be interested as to why the same crime depicted in a non-pornographic film is better (in the sense that you think it should be allowed / not made illegal) than the same crime depicted in a pornographic film. Even restricted to only pornography, I don't see why I (as a hypothetical creative) should not be allowed to include a description of something illegal within the context of a pornographic film. i.e. I think it should be (legally speaking) fine for me to make a hot a steamy porno that also includes, as a core part of the porno, a scathing critique of my local town's property tax implementation while a bank robbery is ongoing. If it matters, let's say the main characters / people having sex are also doing the bank robbing. If you're trying to restrict what crimes are illegal to depict (rather than all crimes), then I'm not sure what metric you're using for that. Is it only explicitly sexual crimes that should not be in sexual films? Because there's plenty of crimes that are not intrinsicly sexual but that can be sexual because of the observer, e.g. Masochists can be aroused by illegal non-sexual physical abuse, would it be okay to have that illegal non-sexual physical abuse in an otherwise explicitly sexual pornographic film? If you're concerned about people "getting off" to crimes, I don't think your restrictions are going to mitigate that at all. People are aroused by the abuse in Uncle Tom's Cabin[0]. If you're trying to prevent people from being aroused by "bad" things, I don't think you'll see much success. Hell is other people, after all. [0]: I'm reading "The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature" by Marianne Noble and it references a letter that's relevant here: "Even in my early childhood I loved to revel in ideas about the absolute master of one man over others. The thought of slavery had something exciting in it for me, alike whether from the standpoint of master or servant. That one man could possess, sell or whip another caused me intense excitement; and in reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (which I read at about the beginning of puberty) I had erections." Same letter, different reference, is quoted on page 65 here of "The Erotics of History" by Donald L. Donham: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt2204r8x.12 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt2204r8x.12