On 4/9/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote: Obviously 18 is a ludicrous hard limit, but that's the one
that most (Americans) believe in.
It's an unnecessary limit. The picture in question depicts someone who is obviously a very young child, and the juxtaposition with a dildo makes the picture explicitly sexual. Depiction of sexuality in teenagers has long been acceptable; the example of Kubrick's Lolita (who in the film is fourteen, somewhat older than Nabokov's Lolita) painting her toenails would be acceptable because, although erotic, it is not sexually explicit and doesn't involve a young child.