did child pornography use to be legal in Europe?

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vertexoflife

So, for an actual answer, you're going to want to tell me when you're talking about.

As we moderns would define it, yes there was both pornography and child pornography.

However, both childhood and pornography are historically created categories. For example, the photographs that Charles Dogdson, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland did of Alice Liddell, might be considered child pornography today. But they were not then, not necessarily at least.

Additionally, the nature of who and what a child is and was has changed dramatically over the course of years, in England, France, Germany, etc.

A good (if very problematical in some ways) introduction to this is Child-Loving by James Kincaid.