"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..."
You need to keep the quote in its proper context. Reread the entire paragraph: what doesn't matter is whether the CP was photography or drawings, etc, because the purpose and the results are always the same: it feeds the obsession and the need to commit the actual physical deed.
"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 how would you prove such a ratio? The majority of pedophiles are an unknown quantity by practice (as admitted in studies, such as a report produced by the Mayo Institute). So are molesters, until they're finally uncovered. The data in hand was obtained through interviews of those incarcerated, who give first-hand info. How many undocumented (read: not yet arrested) pedophiles do you know that you can survey with the question, "Do you still feel like molesting children after fapping off to a stack of child porn?" -- and how many do you expect to honestly answer in the affirmative?
"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..."
You need to keep the quote in its proper context. Reread the entire paragraph: what doesn't matter is whether the CP was photography or drawings, etc, because the purpose and the results are always the same: it feeds the obsession and the need to commit the actual physical deed.
"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 how would you prove such a ratio? The majority of pedophiles are an unknown quantity by practice (as admitted in studies, such as a report produced by the Mayo Institute). So are molesters, until they're finally uncovered. The data in hand was obtained through interviews of those incarcerated, who give first-hand info. How many undocumented (read: not yet arrested) pedophiles do you know that you can survey with the question, "Do you still feel like molesting children after fapping off to a stack of child porn?" -- and how many do you expect to honestly answer in the affirmative?