I'm afraid I'm going to have to take the other side here. I find it detestable, despicable and downright morally corrupt in the extreme.....but you can't build a legal system on ethical niceties.
The reason child pornography is a prosecutable offense is because some extremely sick bastards filmed it, effectively scarring an innocent young life forever. Books, films and animes all exist with scenes including or alluding to child pornography, I don't agree with this but it isn't harming anybody so I don't see how someone could be convicted for it.
You could also (dare I say it) argue via the desensitization theory of antisocial behaviuor that encouraging people (READ: Sick fucks) to do it with virtual stuff is much preferable than leaving them open to do it with real child porn. Similar comparisons can also be drawn to the legalisation of prostitution and cannabis.
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