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Imagining some naked and producing graphic images of them without their consent is a little different.

• ryandrake 2y ago
  Where do you draw the line? What about if someone, without consent, tells a story and describes every last detail of that person, short of drawing a physical picture? What if they write down that story? What if that story is kept in a safe inside your house and nobody else reads it? Why draw the line at a physical image?
• kergonath 2y ago
  It’s not really, though, is it? It’s similar to things like death threats: creating a picture of someone getting killed is not illegal, but using it in a coercitive way very much is. It’s not a completely different thing just because it involves boobs. Harm is not done when the file is created, it’s done when it is spread maliciously to bully someone, and that’s where prosecution should be focused. The fact that a representation of a thing itself is illegal is quite backwards and ought to be at least seriously debated more seriously than in the moral panic we have now. Otherwise, we’re back to punishing people for their creations, whether that would be ideas, writings, paintings, or digital files, just because some people do not like it.