Talk:Legality of child pornography

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Text and/or other creative content from Child pornography was copied or moved into Laws regarding child pornography with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

Legality

The lede of this article states that "child pornography is illegal in most but not all nations." However this seems overly vague in that it could mean either possession or distribution. I looked at the cited source and did not see any discussion of overall global statistics, though on page 12 there was a paragraph about Western societies. According to a 2008 study it seems possible this statement is actually wrong as only 58 known countries had laws on possession (see the main article's talk page). —Rehoboam (talk) 08:59, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]