The Comics Code Authority kind of took that line. "Realistic" crime could not be depicted in comic books, which is a big part of why Silver Age comic book villains are so surreal.

This.

Why is it I can watch James Bond murder a couple of dozen people on the big screen and that's fine, but watching a perfectly normal consensual act is taboo.

Christ, I don't get the step relative thing, but if you do, but don't want to do anything to your step child. Go for it.

It wasn't long ago that homosexuality was conflated with pedophilia. This is coming from exactly the same place.

And then there's the intellectual honesty. Are these people not into anything sexual? I get the school girl thing. I'm not a pedo, I'm sure a psychologist could break it down, but I don't get it, when I break it down. Do the politicians have these fantasies and are in denial? Think they can 'control their urges' but others can't?

Why can't it be that I like the idea of a grown adult female in school uniform sexy, and that I'm honest about that and I'm honest about the fact I don't want to sleep with a 15 year old.

> I don't get the step relative thing, but if you do, but don't want to do anything to your step child.

I do not understand such desires either. Though, you reminded me of an 'Ask Me Anything (AMA)' on Reddit I read many years ago. The subject of the AMA was a person that worked in the adult entertainment industry for some significant amount of time. Not as an actor or actress, but in the 'behind the scenes' business/production operations.

I still remember reading a question someone ask which could be paraphrased as, "Why does the industry push so much taboo titled and themed content like: just turned 18, barely legal, incest, step-siblings, step-parents, etc.?"

The person answering questions responded by stating that it wasn't the industry that created a lot of this themed content in hopes people would expand their desires. Rather, it was the industry directly reacting to what people seemed to want in the first place based off the analytics they could capture. The industry started to notice that content with such themes really outperformed. In other words, if you want your content to be competitive, then it's essentially obligatory.

> Do the politicians have these fantasies and are in denial? Think they can 'control their urges' but others can't?

These days it feels like: yes, they have them. No, they are not in denial, they just feel like indulging them is for people like them and not people like you.

> Christ, I don't get the step relative thing,

It's not a "step relative" thing. It's a relative thing. Sticking "step" in the titles is a dodge.

But no one is talking about banning crime TV.

(And there is a line for broadcast TV that was largely drawn decades ago.)

There are limits to what crime can be shown “on TV” (broadcast), yes? There is also a pretty big difference between a public “on TV” broadcast, and a private interaction in your own home with a privately owned website depicting things that others may disagree with.

I think it’s unhealthy, I think it influences young minds in adverse ways, and I think the parents should be responsible for allowing that to happen. But hey, I don’t really have a dog in this fight either way.

Salient point.