"And it doesn't matter whether the imagery is fictional or real, drawing or photography or even human or furry; it's the underlying intent that really matters -- that it is the representation of children being molested, for the sake of the pleasure of the molestor, whether he be the real thing or a voyeuristic wannabe."
How is that what really matters? I thought it was stopping kids from getting molested what really mattered, not what people think about when looking at such things...
Not to mention that people can look at such things for multiple reasons, like say identifying with the under age person in such pornography, analogous to those that identify with victims in rape pornography.
Also, asking what affects child molesters is a dangerous half of a correlation, as it doesn't say what happens to those with pedophilia that didn't molest children. A position based on such statistics would lose a lot of ground if it turns out for every child molester created by child porn, two child molesters were prevented. And that doesn't even address questions of how to handle things that might only spur a minority of people to bad things, as there are plenty of things that could be banned because they cause the even-one-is-too-many violent crimes due to unbalanced and crazy people around.
"And it doesn't matter whether the imagery is fictional or real, drawing or photography or even human or furry; it's the underlying intent that really matters -- that it is the representation of children being molested, for the sake of the pleasure of the molestor, whether he be the real thing or a voyeuristic wannabe."
How is that what really matters? I thought it was stopping kids from getting molested what really mattered, not what people think about when looking at such things...
Not to mention that people can look at such things for multiple reasons, like say identifying with the under age person in such pornography, analogous to those that identify with victims in rape pornography.
Also, asking what affects child molesters is a dangerous half of a correlation, as it doesn't say what happens to those with pedophilia that didn't molest children. A position based on such statistics would lose a lot of ground if it turns out for every child molester created by child porn, two child molesters were prevented. And that doesn't even address questions of how to handle things that might only spur a minority of people to bad things, as there are plenty of things that could be banned because they cause the even-one-is-too-many violent crimes due to unbalanced and crazy people around.