fictional representations

I want to link to a discussion on the recent Supreme Court ruling on child porn taking place over at Feministe. As should be obvious, I disagree with what many of the posters over there are saying.

I have major issues with our definition of childhood - I certainly think it's not done my generation any favors that we're still considered kids at twenty. We've elongated adolescence to a ridiculous level. At fifteen, I wanted to be treated like an adult. I wanted to be a real part of the world, not a subordinate part. That doesn't mean that grown men should have been having sex with me, but I was sexually active at sixteen and I waited longer than almost all my friends.

There's a difference between pornographic materials featuring four year olds and sixteen year olds. There just is.