What needs to be said.

After reviewing the replies here, the following needs to be emphasized in text.

These new laws that are created such as the PROTECT Act of 2003 are not carefully stitched together by hyper-intelligent literate intellectuals in an ivory tower. This is what they would like you to believe. In reality, these newfangled laws come from the pen of hysterical political action groups with bizarre reactionary social agendas. This is the absolute truth of the matter, my fellow GC posters. What these people are doing is not protecting children. That's only a motto they use in their demagoguery. Drug laws with "mandatory minimum sentences" have filled up american prisons beyond the breaking point. The United States of America has the largest prison population in the entire world. (Not the developed world, people, the entire world). Making naked cartoon characters illegal only adds to this atrocious trend. We are spinning out of control and we have been for decades now. Know who your friends are. This is not going to get easier for us.

The bottom line here is that the internet is exposing americans to the rest of the world out there. Foreign Material from all over the world is beaming into our bedrooms now through the internet. There are isolated, hyper-sensitive conservative christians living in little isolated bubbles in America. They feel their fuzzy little isolated bubbles of morality are under attack from a satanic overseas horde. They are seeing material coming in from the outside. This material is shocking them. They don't have the mental acumen to handle it. The part where they go wrong is that assuming that you don't either. Now because they think you don't have the intelligence to tell the difference between a naked anime character and a real child, they are going to go ahead and throw you in prison if they catch you with some lolicon.