Here we go:

In 1974, at the age of 4, I entered the Minnesota (USA) public school system. I walked to school every day, and passed a local department store. Many of us were dumpster divers, as we acquired a lot of cool trash through our activities: toys, games, porn, etc. We stored our ill-gotten porn on the store’s premises, where no adult would think to look.

By the ages of 5-6, I had seen it all. I’m not just talking about weenies and muffins, I’m talking S&M, she-males, animal stuff, etc. Needless to say, my ‘innocence’ was a thing of the past before 2nd grade. I’m glad I knew all this stuff, it made me understand what a bunch of sick fucks adults are.

So, here we are. The internet throws all this crap in kids’ faces for profit. Sure, it’s intended for adults, but just isn’t screened that well. Also, nobody profited from those of us warped by that early ill-gotten exposure, but they will in the ever-after, now.

Here’s my simpleton question: WHY DIDN’T THE “”"”"”"(dot).XXX”"”"”"” thing pass??? If that wouldn’t have singled out adult domains with XXX just like movies, so everybody could filter them, then I don’t know what could have… .AERO passed, but .XXX didn’t…

Okay, whatever — I’m 37 now. I’ve know, for the past 32 years, that most of humanity is comprised of sick twisted fuckers. Go rape somebody, on-line or off-line. It doesn’t really matter to me, I’m single, and can defend myself — I’m just worried about my friends’ and families’ kids.

However, it isn’t my job to defend them, according to the law. Have a nice rape.

That’s because conservative politicians are in charge right now in the Netherlands and we all know how conservative politicians “like” how their constituents achieve an orgasm.

How in the world do you put an age on a virtual cartoon or drawing? How can you look at a computer-generated character and say, “I see no pubic hair–they must be underage…”? Hell, why don’t we make it illegal to play first-person shooters! It’s virtual killing!

In Second Life everyone knows that this is role playing. That is where it treads on dangerous ground.

I agree with you, that is bad law. To analogize, to bust a party store or bar for selling alcohol to teens, the police need to use a person who is actually under the drinking age. The police cannot merely pretend to be under the age when they set up their sting. The problem of course is making real 12 year old girls be a part of a highly sexualized sting operation.

However, at least in that law the intent of the defendant is to have real sex with real underage girls. There isn’t even such an intent in Second Life. I’ve heard of victimless crimes, but this is the first crimeless crime I’ve ever seen.

Maybe they’ve been drinking too much Heineken in the prosecutor’s office during business hours. This could put a serious damper on the booming market for Catholic schoolgirl outfits. Did anyone really believe there were that many Catholic schoolgirls?