Die Flut fiktiver Kinderpornographie

Ein enormes quantitatives Problem.

Ein Leser weist mich auf das hin: Pornography, Harm, and the Limits of the Law

In England und Australien sei man auf einer Moral-Jagd auf alle Pornographie:

Mick Moran, chief executive of the Irish Internet Hotline and a board member of INHOPE, the international association of internet reporting hotlines, argued recently in the Irish Examiner that “‘ordinary’ porn is now a gateway to child sex abuse material”. Recommendation systems, he writes, feed an appetite for novelty and taboo until some viewers cross from adult pornography into recordings of children being abused.

What Moran wants restricted is pornography that sexualises youth, and the algorithms he believes drive viewers towards it. He stops well short of calling for a general ban. But once the argument is on the table, it is hard to see where it stops. If pornography that is otherwise lawful can be prohibited because some of its viewers might later go looking for abuse material, then neither the consent of the performers nor the absence of any abuse in its making is enough to protect it.

The United Kingdom has already run with that logic. Alongside measures aimed at depictions of strangulation, commonly called choking, the government announced in April that it would restrict incest-themed pornography and ageplay, meaning adults role-playing as children. The announced penalties run to five years in prison for publication and three for possession.

Measures like these are sold as protection for women and children. But among the first people to feel their weight are women who write erotic fiction and queer filmmakers, whose work is already being criminalised or quietly withdrawn. Their experience shows how easily child protection policy turns into the regulation of sexual expression between adults.

Man ist also der Meinung, dass alle Pornographie irgendwie zu Kinderpornographie führt. Das ist erstaunlich, denn noch vor ein paar Jahren waren die Pornographiegegner wie Catharine MacKinnon und in der Folge Susanne Baer der Meinung, dass alle Pornographie zu Gewalt gegen Frauen führt. Vermutlich alles, auch die Klimaerwärmung.

Eigentlich würde man sie am liebsten ganz verbieten, beschränkt sich aber noch darauf, alles zu verbieten, was auch nur irgendwie in Richtung junge Sex-Partnerinnen laufen oder danach aussehen könnte. Es eröffnen sich neue Geschäftsfelder für die „Omas gegen rechts“. Dann haben die wieder eine Aufgabe und sind von der Straße weg.

Dabei gehen sie auch auf fiktive Pornographie los:

In March 2025, Australian police charged the erotic fiction author Lauren Mastrosa over her novel Daddy’s Little Toy. The book opens with content warnings that tell readers plainly they may find what follows disturbing: a relationship between an 18-year-old woman and her father’s 45-year-old friend, including scenes in which she role-plays as a child. Mastrosa pulled the novel after a brief early release and pleaded not guilty. In February 2026 she was convicted of producing, possessing and disseminating child abuse material, and in April the court imposed an 18-month community corrections order and placed her on the New South Wales Child Protection Register for eight years. She is appealing both conviction and sentence.

In the United Kingdom, the queer filmmaker Vex Ashley took her films Maman and Maman II down from her Four Chambers website after the government moved against incest-themed pornography and ageplay. The films explore the “Mommy” archetype through consensual roleplay between adult women. No agency ordered their removal; Ashley withdrew them because of the risk of prosecution. They returned later in edited form, with references to “Mommy” dubbed out of the explicit scenes. The result, Ashley told Mashable, no longer made much sense: the performers and their actions were exactly the same. All that had gone was a word — and with it, the fictional relationship the audience was being shown, which was the very thing that made the original legally risky.

Den Brüller finde ich das:

Coercing a performer, or distributing images of someone without their consent, violates another person’s rights. The claim that fiction encourages abuse is a claim of an entirely different kind, and it needs a different kind of evidence. Finding a fantasy disturbing is a perfectly understandable reaction, but it tells us nothing about whether the person who wrote, performed or enjoyed it would ever act on it. The gap between imagination and behaviour is where this debate has to start.

Wie kann eigentlich eine fiktive Romanfigur oder eine KI-Figur wirksam in Sex einwilligen?

The costs of treating fictional and fantasy material — pornographic or otherwise — as though it were real-world harm are not abstract. The Drawing the Line Watchlist 2025 examined ten countries and found legal systems steadily redirecting child-protection laws and resources towards fictional and fantasy expression.

In the United Kingdom, we found that prosecutions involving fictional sexual material rose dramatically over the period examined while prosecutions involving images of real child abuse fell by more than half. By 2024-25, fictional-image cases accounted for a substantial share of the relevant caseload. Correlation alone cannot prove that any given fictional-material prosecution displaced a case involving a real child. But police, forensic, prosecutorial, court and prison resources are finite, and a system that treats fiction as abuse necessarily spends them on people who did not abuse the depicted victim, because there is no depicted victim.

The Drawing the Line project therefore insists on a prior question: what is the harm, and who experienced it? The answer should determine whether the response belongs to child-protection law, privacy law, platform design, clinical support, or ordinary obscenity regulation. Disgust at a subject cannot do that analytical work.

Der blanke Wahnsinn:

Die Strafverfolgung fiktiver und Phantasie-Pornographie zum vermeintlichen Schutz der Kinder hat in England und den anderen untersuchten Ländern derart dramatisch zugenommen, dass sie so viele Resourcen bindet, dass sie keine Zeit mehr haben, echten Kindesmissbrauch zu verfolgen.

Irgendwie dreht die Welt gerade völlig durch.