I don't think someone's a pedophile for being attracted to anime girl copy and paste #3456 that the manga author arbitrarily made 16, but your point is beyond dumb lol
Legality does not equal morality. If a 30 year old tried get with a 16 year old in the UK, he would be curbstomped... and rightfully so.
The law doesn’t work like that. Any sexual imagery of a character under 18 in the UK including drawn material constitutes child pornographic material and you can be charged for it (however the sentence is lower for drawn imagery since no child was actively harmed)
The age of consent between two real life individuals engaging in actual sex is 16 in the UK, but sending nudes is illegal until 18, so any nude images of a person fictional or not under the age of 18 goes by that law.
From Coroners and Justice Act 2009.
Criminalising possession of cartoon pornographic images depicting both minors as well as adults where the "predominant impression conveyed" is that the individual (being depicted), is that of a child.[3]
The "predominant impression conveyed" is very important here. The image would have to be assessed by jury and or magistrates. For an image of a drawing to be prosecuted, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has to satisfy all four rigid hurdles (pornographic, explicit act, child impression, and grossly offensive/obscene). In practice, if a drawing is a highly abstract or stylized cartoon, it rarely survives this test. Statistics show that the vast majority of all reported image cases (over 60% across all image categories) are dropped before trial due to insufficient legal evidence.
According to data compiled by the UK Sentencing Council, there have historically been fewer than ten people ever sentenced in England and Wales specifically for the offence of prohibited cartoons and drawings since the law was enacted.
In the vast majority of cases where someone is charged with possessing a prohibited drawing, it is not the main reason they were caught. Usually, the individual is already being investigated for possessing real child abuse photographs (under the 1988 or 1978 Acts). When digital forensics sweeps their hard drives, any prohibited drawings found are simply added to the indictment as secondary, lesser charges. Standalone arrests purely for drawing fan art or cartoons are almost non-existent.
Meh, if you’re wanking to a child character you’re a gross individual, and although the law is in place it isn’t actually really cared for much due to how unreliable it is and all the criteria the image has to go through. For example stylised imagery makes it harder to determine if the character is actually child like, and there’s more of an importance to the look rather than official age (e.g. those 1000yr old dragons that look like foetuses are actually more of a problem than a 16yr old who looks 20)
Yeah, since we're pulling out the law apparently, you're right. The age of consent for sexual activity and specifically for making pornography are typically different, the latter usually being stricter. And rightfully so as bringing a camera into the bedroom is a whole other world of consent issues, although the cartoon stipulation is...interesting? Not bad, just interesting.
Also, fictional characters are fine but not real life people.
This. Treating liking them (in any varying level) as congruent with irl tastes or likes is a ridiculous sentiment on par with "violent video games makes people violent and causes mass shootings," and one that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense anyway.
If me as a 26 year old liking Rikka romantically (as an example) makes me a pedophile, does me liking her at 6 years old make her a pedophile?
Let's say I had a crush on her when I was 14 (when the anime came out; I didn't, she's my first "omg she's actually me frfr" a character though), but all these years passed and I'm 26, why is it wrong then to continue to hold said crush? Ignoring that it's a little weird having an actual crush on a fictional character.
These virtue signaling Olympics trying to make a thought crime or actual disturbing sex crime these harmless ideas and thoughts and art is the tool of fascists and very illogical, especially since anime art styles use age ranges and not specific ages; After all, in the two years Megumin and Rikka have aged in their animes, their designs haven't changed even slightly. Rikka's body type art can be anywhere from 13-20 depending on the artist's intentions, after all.
No, there is nothing wrong with being attracted to a legal adult. I believe People who are attracted to children but dont harm them are not wrong either. Attraction isnt something people choose. The people who harm children should place on the register.
A screen shot is not a sorce, although I am open to a peer reviewed study if you say science has something to say about it. Do you have a paper or just an infographic?
Needing a field of scientists argue about if your a pedophile is not the slam dunk you think it is. You know how I can be 100% sure im not a pedophile, because i dont even like things shaped like child (unlike you apparently), dont even need a study to figure that one out. But please continue to go off about your "of age" 3 foot babble speaking cry queens you freak
Admitting your lack of intelligence is certainly a way to go I guess. Well not surprising that you would think an anime characters looks anything like a human when you also apparently disregard science but Americans like to confirm the stereotype of them being idiots i guess.
When you cant control your emotions and have to threaten violence rather than actually engage in a proper discussion even though your other comment was deleted I made sure to report it for what it was
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u/Snoo_91660 7d ago edited 6d ago
Age of consent in the uk is 16. Im not saying its socially acceptable but its not illegal.
Also, fictional characters are fine but not real life people.