I recently did a full reread of Lolicon: The Reality of ‘Virtual Child Pornography’ in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith, and after really sitting with it, I found even more contradictions, bad logic, and rhetorical sleights of hand than I did the first time. It leans heavily on “free speech” absolutism, completely ignores normalization, and near the end, draws a false moral equivalence between women and children that’s honestly pretty disturbing — all in ways that feel intellectually dishonest.
Would it be worth writing up a measured, point-by-point critique of the paper to support the thread’s goals? I think it could be a useful resource when these kinds of academic defenses come back up in future discussions.
Let me know if that would be helpful — I already have a rough outline broken down by section.