So you are saying the only people who should get outraged about child porn are people who watch child porn?
You dont think society has an obligation and responsibility to protect our weak and vulnerable from predators? To stand up and ensure a bright, healthy future generation?
I think people who think like this deserve the future on the horizon when all the children we turned our eyes from are now the ones leading the world and culture.
Let's fuck the world. Destroy humanities future. Sounds awesome.
Same time, men seeking out what we consider today underage girls has been around a lot longer than we care to think.
For example, it was not uncommon for men to marry 15 year old girls at one time.
Even younger than that. And it wasn't even illegal.
Much of what we consider today as abhorrent, was respectable back then.
What I've noticed, is a lot of classical art seems to make references to pedophilia.
ie - paintings of naked children, babies dressed up a angels or cherubs.
in 18 or 19tch century art.
I think there was more pedophiles among those Great Masters than we care to think.
The French painter, Paul Gaugin had a 12 or 13 year old Tahitian wife.
There were noted literary figures who had 12 year old mistresses.
Not saying any of this was desirable, but it existed.
What's notable in today's society, is how men are now all vilified and perceived of as potential predators.
Ie, I went to this online conference, SIGGRAPH (
www.siggraph.org), to register for it & during the registration process, the website prompts the user that if they intend to 'attend' it (it's not being held in person due to the coronavirus), that they refrain from sexual harassing behaviour.
I mean, c'mon - an online conference which is only viewable on the Internet? Who the heck am I gonna possibly harass when I can't even meet them? This is how toxic our society has become. Society seems to say it can't even trust men, so much as tapping on a keyboard or computer console. Anyways, when I attended these conferences live in person in the past, these questions never came up. And now I'm not sure if I even want to bother to register if I can't be trusted behind a computer screen.
Similarly when I was working with the local school board as a contract worker taking care of disabled children, I had to undergo a criminal check, fingerprinting, etc to certify that I was not a pedophile. All that bullshit for some menial job. That employer actually wants me to come back, but I figger with all those hoops to go through just to take care of or even get physically abused by a bunch of self-centred, self-entitled annoying brats, it's not worth it.
We've all become guilty and adopted Joseph Stalin's mentality - "Better to imprison 1 million innocent people, than to let 1 guilty one go free."