How do you mean by “inconclusive”?
If what’s counted can include what is not CSAM, the count could include none.
Drawings are no more CSAM than are stick figures.
If what is depicted never happened, it’s either a lie or fiction.
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Since this is somewhat relevant I feel like sharing this information:
The constitutional court of Germany has sent representatives to the scientists who worked on this study for questioning. I do not know when this happened, but it must have been this year.
Going by the fact that this study is in favor of the dolls and currently the only empirical study available (in Germany at least) this is a good sign.
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Thanks for keeping us informed on this. I was just thinking about this the other day, but had no way to reliably look into the matter myself, since I can’t understand German.
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Were you thinking about the study, or the still on-going constitutional complaints?
I myself think about the complaints regularly, because I view them as a major factor in how fictional outlets will be handled in the future.
My other post about Switzerland for example. A positive ruling would definetly influence them (same tongue) and Europe in general since it is such a big country. It would also make a CLSD ban on EU-level impossible. Most likely also give more scientists the courage to talk and research alternatives.
Both, but moreso the constitutional complaints.
I’m rather confident that the sciences themselves will vindicate a non-prohibitive position regarding dolls, fiction, and outlets such as this in general.
The fact that pedohebephilic non-offenders benefit greatly from them isn’t something that can be scientifically overlooked or understated without compromising the integrity of the study.
I just hope that the German courts accept the recommendations of the scientific findings and are ready to carry that social burden of being the guys who ‘legalized kiddy rape dolls’.
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I think we all share the same hope. We are lucky enough that the responsible judge preparing these cases is described as a very liberal person. Maybe because his father was a very conservative judge which he argued with a lot.
I am not too much worried about the defamation they could face since they already let a child murderer and rapist go by striking down a law that allowed “prosecution for the same thing twice”. As well as striking down a law banning child marriage since it was implemented badly and had to be recasted (“Court legalized child marriage”).