Hi, don’t mean to cause discourse, but are sexual ao3 fics involving minors not illegal?
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No. AO3 follows US law.
This is part of the problem with people using buzzwords for shit.
Underage smut in fanfic is not child pornography. Those who describe it as such are muddying what actually is – which is real life crime against minors, not words on a page – and using their new and incorrect definition as an excuse to harass people on the internet.
To be clear; the vast majority of the early-season sex in Gossip Girl is underage. Same for Vampire Diaries. Same for Teen Wolf. Same for Glee. If it was illegal – or child porn, or fucking paedophilia, which, again, muddying the meaning of what that actually is is so dangerous! – no one would be putting it in TV shows.
I’m begging you to gain some basic comprehensive skills, and to crack open a goddamn dictionary. The rampant misuse of words – like the above, like ‘problematic’, like every mental health term kids on Twitter like to throw around incorrectly, BC these people aren’t sociopaths they just don’t agree with you! – is incredibly dangerous, and harmful to a lot of real life victims, actually.
Hope anon saw this so they know the truth, not just puritan rhedoric that’s spout out and treated by antis like it’s truth! If fictional smut was illegal in any context, then ao3 wouldn’t exist right now!
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