This is so full of fail it could have come from Yes Minister
The government of Scotland said "may allow offenders to adapt or restrict their behaviour to conduct which falls short of our prosecution threshold"
FAIL - unless their behaviour has ALREADY reached the prosecution threshold, they are NOT offenders; doubly so if the criminalising act hasn't even been passed yet. I know government officials are supposed to be as thick as shit, but this is unbelievable.
FAIL - adapting or restricting behaviour to conduct which falls short of the prosecution threshold is known to people in the real world as "Obeying the Law" and considered good practice rather than bad practice.
FAIL - when a new law is proposed that makes something illegal that wasn't before, it is generally considered a requirement of natural justice that people be told what they will no longer be allowed to do, especially when mere possession of something, however immoral, is to become an actual crime.
The entire statement reeks of bigoted prejudice against what people are doing, rather than the calm unemotional behaviour one should be able to expect of lawmakers.
I don't live in Scotland, have never possessed any illegal porn, have never possessed porn that could possibly be illegal under this new law even if I did live north of the border, nor do I condone any act of non-consensual sex with anybody (whether minors or not). However, I am posting this AC because the Government has it's head so far up it's ass that it would get prosecuted for that if it lived in Scotland.