# Should cartoon porn depicting minors be illegal?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 14, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-cartoon-porn-depicting-minors-be-illegal/637663 "2012-10-14T01:35:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-cartoon-porn-depicting-minors-be-illegal/637663/101 "2015-11-02T03:05:38Z")

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I still get a grin out of 1980’s cartoon porn, where the characters always make a point of indicating that they are 18 or older.

“Now that it’s my 18th birthday…”  
“Say, you just turned 18…”  
“Footnote: all characters are 18 or older…”

Except for Cinnamon Poptart…but, wait, she doesn’t exist and never did. Nuh uh.

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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-cartoon-porn-depicting-minors-be-illegal/637663/102 "2015-11-03T18:33:23Z")

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> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> Sick shit is sick shit. It doesnt have to have a reason beyond that.

Yes it does, if you are going to convict someone as a felon and brand them with the predators’ registry just for drawing Penny Gadget giving head. Just for being sick shit you can heap as much social censure as you want on it and refuse to carry it in any store, but it should take more tomake it a crime.

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-cartoon-porn-depicting-minors-be-illegal/637663/103 "2015-11-03T20:09:33Z")

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Horror movies are sick shit, depicting (simulated) death and severe injury.

Ban war movies. Ban cowboy movies (gun injuries.) Ban spy movies…

Once you figure that “sick shit” doesn’t deserve constitutional protection, the slope suddenly gets damn slippery.

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**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-cartoon-porn-depicting-minors-be-illegal/637663/104 "2015-11-03T20:11:35Z")

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> [@Trinopus](#):
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> I still get a grin out of 1980’s cartoon porn, where the characters always make a point of indicating that they are 18 or older.
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> “Now that it’s my 18th birthday…”  
> “Say, you just turned 18…”  
> “Footnote: all characters are 18 or older…”
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> Except for Cinnamon Poptart…but, wait, she doesn’t exist and never did. Nuh uh.

I’ve seen similar dialog in real porn when the actresses look young.

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