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> I’m completely behind David Cameron being vehement about keeping children and rape out of pornography, by the way. I don’t think anyone on earth is arguing “pro” for that one.

I'm "pro" both of those. I believe that people that have a liking for these things will seek to satisfy their desires, and I think it's preferable they do it through porn to them doing that in real life. In other words, I would prefer that perverts jerk off using images of kids, not actual kids.

I also see no reason why that kind of porn would not be digitally generated (except for the fact that it's illegal).

Also, due to the online surveillance and the general political atmosphere, I feel uncomfortable posting this using my real account.



Why was bandushrew's reply to this killed?

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bandushrew 36 minutes ago | link [dead]

There are not enough studies into the effect of pornography consumption:

This one claims no effect - ie, that consumption of pornography does not appear to increase the likelihood of rape: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2032762

The one mentioned here claims that cases of rape are decreasing with the availability of pornography: http://voices.yahoo.com/online-pornography-helping-lower-rap....

Clearly nobody likes to think of perverts masturbating to pictures of children, but so long as no children are harmed to make that possible, who really cares?

I would love to see more studies done on the effects of pornography on violent crime - if we can decrease actual cases of child abuse by allowing, for instance, computer generated pornography of that type, then why not?


Uhhh, but what are the images of? Abused children who probably didn't want to be in pornography at the age of (not 18).


One possibility is having it be CG. Under current law that is illegal.




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