All the questions you're alluding to here is basically why is this book so difficult to find? Obviously because it's CP!!!
Well, I'm sorry to break it to you, but it's not. Plain and fucking simple. If it were, why the hell would this be allowed on Amazon.com? Is CP this easy to get? Fact of the matter is, whether it makes you uncomfortable or not, the book still doesn't fit the legal criteria for CP by American law which is why it was disregarded in the trial.
I'm not saying The Boy: A Photographic Essay, nor Bruce Weber's Chop Suey Club, nor Boys Will Be Boys fit the American legal definition of child pornography.
I'm saying that the only reason books like these were made are because actual child pornography is still illegal in the United States, and pedophiles can spank it to these works without risking trouble.
Pornography of any kind was, until recent times,
illegal in the United States, under the stricter interpretation of the laws against obscenity snd prostitution. Porno actors, actresses, directors, and producers, 'til the late '80s and
People v. Freeman, were regularly raided and arrested for violating laws against hooking and pimping. Nowadays, the only times (in America, which is what really matters in this case), that a work is considered child pornography is if a child performer does something in the work that's also illegal for them to do off camera.
Which is ultimately for the best. No society can control what people masturbate to. But, that has never meant that there haven't always been legal material for spanking the monkey available. And most of it, unlike
Lolita or
American Psycho or the
NatGeo mags which had topless African girls that were the favorite of every male Baby Boomer middle-schooler,
was made for no reason other than to provide jerk-off assistance.
Michael Jackson had those (legal) underage-boy books because he wanted to masturbate to their contents. The law, ultimately for the best, can't prosecute the owner of any legal work just because they want to masturbate to it. But nobody repeatedly finds themself in the possession of thousands of dollars of gay erotica, mostly focused on underage boys, for any reason other than their wanting to masturbate to it.
And there a thousands of books that have never been reprinted, only have first editions, don't have any of its pictures online, and sell for $400 or more dollars. That in no way means those books also have some great CP conspiracy surrounding it. And I do say conspiracy because these publications are still considered art books. Yes, you can try as hard as you can to make them about CP and possibly make headway, but it still doesn't prove without a reasonable doubt that MJ molested those kids if there's no other evidence against him.
Name one.
And there's far more evidence, which I've posted repeatedly: his loveless marriages; his bearding with Brooke Shields (even most gay dudes would've had sex with her back in the '80s); his consistent awkwardness around women that makes Tom Cruise look natural in comparison; and, most damning and least contested, his preference for friendships with young boys above all other company.
And you're telling me a FAN gave MJ that book anyways? He didn't even buy the damn thing himself? Wow, every MJ fan must know about his secret CP desires ?
I don't buy the "fan gift" story for a second. I'd believe he got those books from Santa Claus before I'd believe they were fan gifts.
But even if they were gifts from fans, Jacko wouldn't've kept the books unless he wanted to masturbate to 'em. It's not like any celeb on his level even checks their own mail anyway. Either he was ordering his help to keep works like Larry Stevens books, or his help assumed he wanted gay erotica.