Priest Abuse and Clergy Sexual Abuse Information

Recently two adults were banned from Second Life because of sexual ‘age-play’. The reason being that their activities represented by child and adult avatars depicted child abuse.

The Protect Act of 2003 excludes drawings, anime, cartoons, and/or comic satire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003

The FBI have a different view, though:

Because of a 2003 federal obscenity law, that’s illegal . The law, designed to help protect children from sexual exploitation, makes it a federal crime to produce or distribute obscene drawings, cartoons, paintings, or any other visual representations involving the sexual abuse of children.

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/march06/obscenity031006.htm

What exactly is the situation then?

Welcome to the murky world of internet regulation. why is it illegal for me to cope a bunch of pixels, look at them, then delete them, if all I’m doing is looking? Who knows?