Whilst the public consultations were happening last year, some advocates of “freedom of expression” argued that a category of consensual BDSM relationship between adults in which a dominant partner adopts a caregiver role and the submissive partner a childlike role, that is DD/lg (Daddy Dom/Little Girl. Prostasia Foundation advocates that drawings do not constitute child pornography and in their view, the Committee was wrong ( see here). Last year, as the Committee was deliberating and inviting input from the public, there were diverse petitions and submissions. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child released Guidelines on the implementation of the international treaty that bans child pornography, proposing to expand its interpretation to include bans on drawings and stories that sexually depict minors. At the 44th Session of the Human Rights Council, we heard how 1 billion children in 2019 who were subjected to various forms of violence and the need for more action to protect children according to the Special Rapporteur.
