@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine Sounds like a rejected idea for a "Big Bang Theory" episode.

@AnnetteTRemain I've been around the con scene since the 1980s. It's always been there. Certain authors were rumored to be stalking underaged girls.

@WordsmithFL I loved comics as a kid. I don't want to be anywhere near it now and don't want to see anime. I admit I judge. Fans should have killed all that if they didn't want the art questioned. And it was really bad on X. I don't like the sexing on kids. It lowers peoples inhibitions, normalizes behavior, and conditions and encourages people to act.

@AnnetteTRemain I just remembered that Cas Anvar got fired from "The Expanse" because he was hitting on underaged girls at cons.

I remember older male authors hitting on young women.

And, to be honest, some young women flirting with personalities hoping to get picked up.

I had a stalker follow me at a couple cons. She was a married woman who wanted me to have an affair with her. I said no. I stopped going to cons because of her.

@WordsmithFL I condemn it just like I condemn Michael Jackson, Gérard Depardieu, Woody Allen. If I found some old comic of spiderman in a antique shop I might look at it but I won't have anything to do with the comic world or japanese anime. They make it acceptable and push the lie that beating off to a comic depicting rape or underage makes one safer than people who don't.

@WordsmithFL @AnnetteTRemain same here. Been around the con world for ages, and wow are some folx ever creepy.

@joycereynoldsward

And now I'm starting to remember old rumors of certain male actors taking advantage of young girls. Nothing proven, until Cas Anvar, but I sure saw my share.

I had a friend who wrote for a certain SF TV series. A woman was going around on social media claiming he recruited her into bizarre sexual acts. I seriously doubt it was true, but boy howdy she came after anyone who asked her for proof.

@AnnetteTRemain

@WordsmithFL It is very very very very very very very very very easy to find anime on X and other places where it's clear some are pushing it as socially acceptable to get off on kids. I'm not even talking about adults acting like kids I think we all know what they show. @joycereynoldsward

@WordsmithFL Can false accusations happen? Absolutely. It also happens too often where people abuse and get away with it for years because victims won't come forward. If someone is creating or getting off on certain "art" then I think it clearly shows where their interests are. @joycereynoldsward

@AnnetteTRemain @WordsmithFL it's also telling that when I went to a regular SF con with my son (who is very involved with furry cons) that he criticized the art show for not having separate areas for more explicit artwork (there were multiple nude pieces and some were...um...yeah). Separate over-18 areas in the art show seems to be the norm for furry cons.

@joycereynoldsward Hey, I remain the days of the "K/S" fanfic sold at #StarTrek conventions.

(For the unfamiliar, "K/S" stories were fanfic about Kirk and Spock engaging in BDSM. They were commonly sold and traded at cons.)

@AnnetteTRemain

@WordsmithFL @AnnetteTRemain oh yeah.

@WordsmithFL Never got into star trek. If I had brought my kids when they were little to an event that had kid accessible porn I would be livid. No different from wanting to go to thomas the train events without someone trying to give your child adult content. Needs to be in clearly marked adult area or be an adult event. @joycereynoldsward

@joycereynoldsward It should be seperated or it should be an adults only event. I'm creeped out by people bringing their kids to it. @WordsmithFL

@FirstAmendmentGirl I'm sure it was always there. I've just never heard of law enforcement doing any kind of undercover operation before at a con, other than maybe looking for bootleg merchandise.