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We also accidentally legalized child pornography for a short period after 1969. That was unintentional though.


Wait, wait, hol' up, double take. How does one accidentally legalize child pornography?


You forget to exclude it from the law that legalize pornography. Denmark was the first country to legalize pornography, so obviously there where a bunch of, should we say "edge cases" that the lawmakers forgot to think about.

The Danish national television made a documentary, there's also a short article: https://www.dr.dk/om-dr/programmer-og-koncerter/candy-film-d... you can probably just run it through Google translate. The worst part is that it took like 10 - 11 years to fix.




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