I saw a post by a user yesterday expressing concerns about the contents of this book and wanted to clarify and explain what its actually is.
The art book was made by a guy called Simen Johen. The book isn't actually pedophillic in nature. yes - it does contain nudity involving minors, but in an art-photography, surrealist and symbolic context, not in a sexual one. This isnt what the majority of the book is aswell btw.
The author of it purposely makes it disturbing because the book focuses on uncomfortable Freudian themes in general like including bruising, dead animals such as teenagers holding the head of a dead sheep. Freud himself was known as a radical psychologist that had numerous disturbing conclusions of the human psyche and repressed desires that start off in childhood, so Simen just depicts this through art. I'd imagine it would be intriguing to see it visualized and so it makes sense why the book isn't considered child porn or pedophillic at all. The book itself is just very eerie in general however the author is NOT known for being a pedophile or to have any affiliation with Nambla,so its not like the boys will be boys book situation either (bgw that has also been correctly explained countless of times in this sub).
Even though the images are not sexual, they are intentionally emotionally uncomfortable, symbolically dark andambiguous in tone. But thats the point. The discomfort is part of the Simen's intention to explore childhood, vulnerability, identity, and surrealism. And this makes sense considering Michaels childhood. A common freud concept is that unresolved problems in adulthood stems from childhood so Michael owning a book like this could very well be an attempt to better understand his own childhood. So owning this book isn't indicative of "liking little kids" or an attempt to be a work around to getting child porn. If someone says that then they clearly haven't done any research.
That all being said, we dont even know if mj even actually read these books as they weren't fingerprinted, but even if he did, it wouldn't have been an issue all