Whenever I see an anti make the typical comment of how “pedophilic” certain content is or that this content (like lolicon is “CP” when really these people are watering down what “CP” actually is) the best way to argue against it is, “you can walk into a Barnes and Noble or go on their website easily and purchase books like Lolita.”
if pro-censorship fans were in the habit of going into bookstores or libraries, or hell–the amazon kindle marketplace– and looking at the content that’s available there, they would perhaps for a moment at least give pause to wonder if they were the ones in the wrong.
The type of content available in fanfiction, whether violent in nature, sexual in nature, etc, is not wildly different than what’s been written about in other formats a million times before by a million authors in history.
Heaven forfend if they ever stumble across Bear, or an Anne Rice novel.
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