Should CP be legal to *VIEW*

What I don't understand is, why is it illegal to merely VIEW images of child pornography? Why does the govenrnmet feel the need to prevent people from seeing something that has already occured, as if hiding it from view will change the fact that it has happened? Banning pictures of the holocaust won't change the fact that it happened.

Is it because it depicts an act that is illegal? We see illegal acts being committed all the time. Hell, we even have television programs dedicated to watching real video of illegal acts being committed. I can freely go online and watch videos of real robberies, thefts, carjackings, beatings, even murders and assassinations. BUT WAIT! That girl looks a little TOO sexy! Lock the fucker in prison!

Is it because it could encourage deviant behavior? There's nothing to stop murderers from going on to Rotten or Ogrish to download all kinds of grisly scenes of murder and death and getting off to that. Does the government think that banning possession of murder and crime scene photos will prevent murders from occuring? Apparently they are not that stupid. Why, then, the double standard? Because there are children involved? Again, I could go over to Rotten or Ogrish and download pictures of dead and mutilated children all day long. Nothing wrong with that, huh?

Is it because they think the only reason that child pornography is produced is because there is a demand for it? Yeah fucking right. That's like saying that if there was no longer a demand for art, all artists in the world would stop painting, all composers would stop making music, all writers would stop writing. It doesn't work that way. No I am not directly comparing child pornography to the fine arts, but the situation is the same.

I suppose what it can finally come down to is not wanting to give pedophiles the satisfaction. Everyone hates pedos, right? But everyone hates the KKK and ELF and the God Hates Fags people, and they're still allowed to think and believe whatever they want, as long as they don't act out violently. How is fapping to an image an act that affects anyone other than the one fapping? It is a victimless "crime," much like enjoying certain drugs in the privacy of one's own home.

I am no more in support of the production of child pornography than I am of the commiting of any other violent crime. But I am against censorship of any kind. Not letting one watch a video of JFK getting assassinated isn't going to change the fact that his fucking brains were blown out, just like not letting one see a picture of Vicky isn't going to change the fact that she took it in the pooper.

>>68 "I mean generally one should absolutely not have sex with children because we don't know enough about it to say if it's good or bad."

we need better sex education then. we as a country have to stop BS'ing to our kids and tell them what's what when they ask. where do babies come from? from mommy's womb. what's a womb? etc.

no one is telling you to give a detailed bio lesson, but cut this shit where you either ignore the question as being a 'grown up' question, or lying to kids saying some dumb shit like a stork brings babies (though i doubt anyone still does that).

As they get older, refine the explination. Treat sex ed and anatomy as if it were math. basic stuff first, head shoulders knees and toes, then get onto the more specific and complicated bits.

at the very least, you'll teach your kid what their body does and what's appropriate touch and what's not and WHY. most of these kids could have probably said no on their own and avoided the whole 'oh wow this tickles i wonder what it is' molestation thing if they just knew what it was in the first place. parents are so afraid they their precious babies will be tainted by this knowledge that they risk these kids going out into the world with pedo's praying on their ignorance of their own bodies.

The upshot of all this would not only be better understanding of a childs' own body at a young age, but they'd also be more likely to practice safe sex when and if they do have sex, and hey, we might even find out kids are smarter than we think they are and that 16 might not be such a bad age of consent after all.