Cub
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A cub is a preadolescent mammal, usually ursine or feline. Cub has come to be a generic term for furry children. However, if you want to refer to a child of a species whose young are usually called something other than cub, it's probably a good idea to call them by their standard title. Young canines should be pups, young foxes should be kits, etc.
[edit] Legal issues regarding cub media
As of 2010 there are no laws in the United States, Canada or the UK that explicitly refer to sexual depictions of minors other than humans. However their are laws in many countries which could be used to prosecute people if the issue was argued in court. These can include obscenity, bestiality and child pornography laws which rely on some interpretation based on opinion. It is worth noting that, if cub art were unambiguously classed as child pornography, it would be unlikely that a publication like Softpaw Magazine would be available for purchase by the public.
Also, because the drawing does not actually depict a physical person it is impossible to determine their age, therefore some legal systems depend on analysis based on the psychical attributes of normal human development (breasts, pubic hair, muscle tone and size) for age estimation. This would be impractical for fantasy type creatures like taurs, griffons, and dragons as they display very few normal human traits.
Australia however has implemented laws strictly prohibiting any deception of child pornography "even one which departs from recognizable human forms in some significant respects". These laws have extended to pornography of real people who are over the age of connect but appear to not be. People have being convicted numerous times for possessing non-anthro cartoon pornography. Currently Australia is implementing an internet censorship filter and in 2008 a list of web addresses that are to be blocked was spread via wikileaks. The list included several images of cub porn hosted on e621.
There is no known case of cub pornography being used to prosecute anyone in a court of law.
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