Comment Re:How far we've come (Score 1) 933
"IN the mid 1970s, the first laws were passed that said it was illegal. First amendment concerns surfaced but those were beaten back with the argument that producing it required that a crime be committed by an adult against a child. You couldn't produce child porn without actually raping a child."
Before we could use the rape argument, we had to increase the age of consent to make sex with children rape.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ageconse.html
and in Europe we still find ages of consent below 18:
