06-02-2013, 06:44 AM
If it's all right, may I ask for clarification as to why the blanket ban on
minors/incest/bestiality ("M/I/B" for short) was put in? I'm not trying to be confrontational here or anything (far from it), but I'll admit I'm a bit confused by the sudden change. Please allow me to clarify why I feel confused by this:
There have been several cases where there have been underaged sex (and often pregnancy) in a fictional capacity in mainstream media (see comments by myself and theKicking in the "Rules change concern" thread here started by darkfanboy that started after the ban lift on M/I/B pregnancies a few months ago; similarly, there has been other areas involving minors and pregnancies in some way shape or form, such as the recent Adam Sandler movie "That's My Boy," TV shows such as "16 and Pregnant," and the occasional made-for-TV movie on teen pregnancy, usually under some variation of the title "Too Young To Be A Parent").
Similarly, Mpreg Central has been around for quite a few years and allowed such things in the past (as Lyric noted in "Rules change concern"), also without legal repercussions (yes, I realise that the site's had to move a couple of times becase previous hosts said it was a no-no, but from what I understood, the very reason we ultimately moved MPC to its own domain name was so that we didn't have to worry about getting the site deleted for "violating" those very rules). There are other websites that depict M/I/B sex (and often pregnancies, including Mpreg) that have been around for many years (DeviantArt, FictionPress, Nifty.org, etc.) and continue to be around.
In all these cases, there seem to have been no legal consequences for their existance (barring a few nations in such areas as the Middle East that generally don't allow such books/movies to be distributed within their borders, but that's about it), which does seem to indicate that minors/incest/bestiality MPREG is allowed in at least some form, hense the reason why I'm scratching my head over the sudden blanket ban on M/I/B Mpreg.
Now, yes, a part of my brain points out that I'm certainly not a lawyer (and that most others, if not everybody else, here aren't lawyers, either) and that I don't know exactly where the legal line is drawn in this subject, and that it's entirely possible that y'all decided it was just easier to initiate the current rules than to hire a lawyer (which would undoubtedly not be cheap) to explain in-depth as to what would generally be permitted (or at least ignored as not being worth the effort of prosecuting) and what would get the Feds cracking down on us faster than we could say, "But it's only fiction!"
(As I noted above, further clarification would be very greatly appreciated, even if it's just saying the above paragraph is why you did what you did.
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minors/incest/bestiality ("M/I/B" for short) was put in? I'm not trying to be confrontational here or anything (far from it), but I'll admit I'm a bit confused by the sudden change. Please allow me to clarify why I feel confused by this:
There have been several cases where there have been underaged sex (and often pregnancy) in a fictional capacity in mainstream media (see comments by myself and theKicking in the "Rules change concern" thread here started by darkfanboy that started after the ban lift on M/I/B pregnancies a few months ago; similarly, there has been other areas involving minors and pregnancies in some way shape or form, such as the recent Adam Sandler movie "That's My Boy," TV shows such as "16 and Pregnant," and the occasional made-for-TV movie on teen pregnancy, usually under some variation of the title "Too Young To Be A Parent").
Similarly, Mpreg Central has been around for quite a few years and allowed such things in the past (as Lyric noted in "Rules change concern"), also without legal repercussions (yes, I realise that the site's had to move a couple of times becase previous hosts said it was a no-no, but from what I understood, the very reason we ultimately moved MPC to its own domain name was so that we didn't have to worry about getting the site deleted for "violating" those very rules). There are other websites that depict M/I/B sex (and often pregnancies, including Mpreg) that have been around for many years (DeviantArt, FictionPress, Nifty.org, etc.) and continue to be around.
In all these cases, there seem to have been no legal consequences for their existance (barring a few nations in such areas as the Middle East that generally don't allow such books/movies to be distributed within their borders, but that's about it), which does seem to indicate that minors/incest/bestiality MPREG is allowed in at least some form, hense the reason why I'm scratching my head over the sudden blanket ban on M/I/B Mpreg.
Now, yes, a part of my brain points out that I'm certainly not a lawyer (and that most others, if not everybody else, here aren't lawyers, either) and that I don't know exactly where the legal line is drawn in this subject, and that it's entirely possible that y'all decided it was just easier to initiate the current rules than to hire a lawyer (which would undoubtedly not be cheap) to explain in-depth as to what would generally be permitted (or at least ignored as not being worth the effort of prosecuting) and what would get the Feds cracking down on us faster than we could say, "But it's only fiction!"
(As I noted above, further clarification would be very greatly appreciated, even if it's just saying the above paragraph is why you did what you did.
)
