That’s such an absurd blanket statement.

And yet, behold all the angry blowhards getting triggered on the internet.

From their insane need to justify something disgusting and harmful probably. Where do any criminals get justification for their actions? Very very few people set out to commit a crime, everyone has a reason for everything.

It matters a great deal because there’s a difference between cartoons and people. If you honestly can’t tell the difference between those two things, you need some serious help.

Look at you not knowing the difference between a drawing and a person.

I don’t know. And neither do you. Unless you’d like to present some evidence to support that claim. Personally I don’t know of any studies correlating consumption of loli artwork and actual statutory rape. 

Lol, it is exactly the same as argument as the “gateway drug” bullshit that we’ve heard about nonstop from various sources. It is claiming that moving from one activity (say, Japanese tentacle porn) leads directly to some other activity (say, child abuse). And all I’m asking for is any proof whatsoever that they’re…

These behaviors escalate usually along a semi predictablepath from consuming media, to trying to be around children, to grooming behaviors until finally an act is committed where they are either caught or continue until caught.

Interesting. I hadn’t thought of the connection there and I suspect you’re right, disgusting as that comparison is.

You’re partially right. I thought it was a supreme court case, it was not. A federal judge in Virginia ruled that criminalization of cartoon porn was unconstitutional. So, not the supreme court.

For what exactly?

5’2” here, AA. Same situation lol. That’s the main thing that pisses me off. Not the actual age of fictonal characters or any nonsense like that, but the fact that I and others can make adult art in an anime style of adult characters that look like us and get insulted for it. For all the progressive, body positive…

I’m 30 and look 20 (and frequently mistaken for younger) and I have a flat chest and I’m under 5 foot. Guess what I can’t draw anymore? Nude studies of a figure like mine or self-studies of my own photographed body without it being removed by Tumblr or whatever. It’s garbage.

I haven’t seen any pro-pedophilia arguments, though admittedly I didn’t look all that hard for them because such an argument would be ridiculous on its face.

I never said Valve should put them back. I just hate the fact that people rush to judge. And by the way, what is an “obvious adult”? Take Senran Kagura. If you saw a picture of any girl in that show, not knowing anything about it, would you think “child”?

NB: Depictions of fictional underage characters in sexual situations whether implicit or explicit are legal. At least in the US, the supreme court has ruled on this already.

After reading a bunch of the comments here I feel the need to express an unpopular opinion: y’all need to chill the fuck out.

I didn’t know they kicked you out of school at 18. Must have changed that since I went.

I predicted (no great skills needed here) that Steam would continue to be capricious and inconsistently violate their own rules even after this latest ‘for sure this time’ and sure enough.

Unfortunately, these days if you draw anime styled art, you have to give characters a DD sized chest and have them in a bar drinking shots or someone is going to say they aren’t adults.