Some of you have been assigned later in the semester to summarize a very problematic Supreme Court decision concerning whether we are free to look at images that depict children in sexual situation--but do not involve actual children. They are either adult actors portraying children or computer generated images of them.
Here is a recent controversy taking the issue one step further. An actual child actress is plays a character who is raped, and the depiction is apparently graphic (I haven't seen it so I don't know).
Does this cross the line? Or is the severity--and unfortunate actuality--of child sexual abuse worth depicting? Does it matter if an actual child is involved?
I need feedback.
