Virtual Pornography

[Jauntier]

BUT she's depicting herself as a schoolgirl, i.e. below the legal age, which according to the law you quoted is illegal. Then of course you do get adult women who have bodies that look underaged, but they are over 18. According to the law they aren't allowed to work in the porn industry. That is how I'm interpretting that, and it's kinda silly.

You are confusing real, identifiable women released on film and photos who can be traced in government databases via their birth certificate and social security number, and have agreed to written contracts to sign over the rights to release their private media to legitimate studios in the porn industry, with drawings or computer-generated images of child-like non-real persons.

Watching Tori Black in a Catholic schoolgirl outfit and pigtails do the deed is not equatable to an IMVU model meshed to look like an underaged schoolgirl simulate sex positions--but you have to take my word for it, she just turned 18.

 

[Midnight shadow]

You are confusing real, identifiable women released on film and photos who can be traced in government databases via their birth certificate and social security number, and have agreed to written contracts to sign over the rights to release their private media to legitimate studios in the porn industry, with drawings or computer-generated images of child-like non-real persons.

Watching Tori Black in a Catholic schoolgirl outfit and pigtails do the deed is not equatable to an IMVU model meshed to look like an underaged schoolgirl simulate sex positions--but you have to take my word for it, she just turned 18.

According to the law quoted earlier, they are all treated the same:

Types of Depictions

Any depiction of a child engaged in sexually explicit conduct may be considered child pornography. This can include photographs, digital images, computer-generated images, drawings, videos, or animations, among others. This also applies if the person in the depiction is actually an adult but appears to be a minor. Moreover, altering an image or video so that it appears to depict a minor may also be child pornography (for example, editing the face of a minor onto the nude body
of an adult in an image or video).

So, you have a person (male or female, makes no difference) with a child-like body who is of legal age wanting to work in the porn industry. According to this law they can't because they appear in the depiction to be a minor, despite being of legal age.

 

[Jauntier]

So, you have a person (male or female, makes no difference) with a child-like body who is of legal age wanting to work in the porn industry. According to this law they can't because they appear in the depiction to be a minor, despite being of legal age.

Concerning the collective industry, proper porn studios and entertainers have a disclaimer in the beginning of their videos that all involved persons are of the legal age to perform and release their media.

If that actor/actress is depicting--as in, representing or portraying a minor in their film--then that would be reprehensible, but appearance alone would be situational. If I had a film of a baby-faced young woman come in like "Mr. John, my first day of 9th grade was hard," and it lead to a wham-bam, yes, that's currently illegal, because the actress is very clearly playing a minor. If it was that same woman with strong child-like tendencies and appearance, and she had mentioned that she had just caught her best friend slamming away in their college dorm and felt left out, well, that's fine. They are an actual adult depicting a legal adult. Both would be considered "schoolgirl". You do not have to be a minor to be in school, mind you.

It isn't so much the adult who's acting as it is the part they are playing, frankly. Gray areas come in with a lack of detail and strong implications, but if you are an adult entertainer in the industry dealing with distributable media, you ought know how to keep yourself and your media from breaching federal child pornography law.

Although, state laws are far more immediate. Thank God for Nevada and California. Not for child porn, I mean, just in general.