@prude: “why would ANYONE want to watch something that looked like children (even if they weren’t) having sex (in porn, it quite often is real)?”
I don’t know and i don’t care. That’s not the point. Laws are made to prevent bad things happening (like, you know, ACTUAL children being molested, thing that would be probably less of a hassle if you let the pedos AT LEAST jerk off to something they liked), not to tell us what we can or can’t want to watch. But hey, it’s your country, your rights that are stripped away from you, your problem. I live in italy, which is even worse, but sadly it was already like this beofre i was even born. YOU on the other hand are actually willingly bending over to let your government shove it up your ass.
You do realize that that’s simply your government telling you what you ought to think, don’t you? If one day somebody will want to outlaw, i dunno, doggy style in pornography, there will be this precedent making this all that much smooth.
“You honour, we want to outlaw doggy style in pornography because it’s disgusting and offensive to women, we already outlawed pretending to be underage because we considered it obscene, and we consider obscene doggy style as well”
“Shit, people, don’t you have anything better to do?”
The purpose of Law is to prevent ACTUAL damage, not to tell you what you can or can’t like/want to watch/want to have sex with. As long as you don’t rape/kidnap/kill/maim/traumatize anybody you’re FREE to do whatever you want in an ideal society.
In your society (and mine as well) you’re just “FREE to do as we tell you”