Originally posted by NovusOrdoMundi
But if it is displayed on any of the many free pornographic video websites, how are the people who created the videos profiting? What is their
motivation to continue to kidnap and rape children? Their own sick desires? Those will never go away no matter what you make illegal and no matter who
is watching.
I have an even better scenario. What if a boy videotapes himself as an adolescent masturbating in the bathroom and then when he becomes the age of
consent he releases the video (of his own volition) to the public?
Should that be outlawed? It does after all constitute child pornography yet
a) The person portrayed in the video is not by statutory definition a minor.
b) The person portrayed in the video has given consent for its publication.
c) The person portrayed in the video is sexually exploiting only himself.
I would argue that it
should be legal, even though I am confident that some of the true moral conformists will try to pursuade me that such an
"atrocious" activity would merely encourage the proliferation of other child pornography.
But the fact is that no child would be harmed in the making of such a recording. And we, as a society, in fact do not condemn children who masturbate
-- in fact we promote it as a physically and mentally healthy activity.
And on a similar note, why is it that we portray children as being so innocent and non-sexual when in fact they masturbate and fantasize about various
sexual activities, some more deviant than others, on a particularly frequent basis as early as the age of 10 -- which is developmentally
"prepubescent" in the case of most males.
If children are not to be exploited sexually, why can they freely "abuse" their own bodies in the performance of self gratification (i.e.
auto-eroticism), and it supposedly does not result in any trauma whatsoever? Why when children are teased about their genitalia in the locker room
while changing for P.E. in middle school that is not emotionally distressing but rather considered a normal part of growing up? Should minors, many of
whom have engaged in mutual masturbation by the age of 15 be punished, or is that considered self exploration?
There are numerous other double standards surrounding the supposed innocence of our children that definitely warrant further clarification. Of course,
these are matters that we simply don't talk about because we don't want to accept that our beautiful young boys and girls in fact might have sexual
urges that greatly
exceed that of a typical young adult male (whom are well known to be quite promiscuous).
--Randall
[edit on 8-7-2009 by rkrause]
