PubliusInfinitum
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PI, I would say that, based on the popularity, prevalence and income of the pornography industry, that there is a very large number of adults who peruse porn. The number of those who are pedophiles is, I think, very small. So one does not seem to lead to the other.
Perhaps those who would be pedophiles are hastened along in their ways by easy access to pornography. I'll grant you that. But the same might be true of having easy access to children's programming. Maybe children should not be allowed in public unless covered in heavy robes to conceal their forms, just in case it should stimulate a possible pedophile.
Your analogy of the bank withdrawal doesn't actually answer my question about actions you can take that are legal so long as no one pays for it. Again, it is perfectly legal to have sex with as many partners as you wish, as often as you wish (obviously assuming they are willing partners of proper age), but if any of them pay you for the act, it becomes illegal. Especially in a capitalist society such as ours, that seems odd to me.
I imagine this is another of those issues we are simply going to continue to disagree about. As always, I hope I am not misreading the meaning of your posts, and I'm not trying to say your opinions are invalid, just that I disagree with them or the reasoning that brought you to them.
Huh... Well Monty... what's the reasonable cut off for Pedophile production?
Certainly, as I stated, most people manage to realize the problem before the pursuit of porn becomes a crippling obession... You're saying that because of this, we should encourage pronography; when my position is that we should discourage it...
Allow my to provide an example...
Recently I had a problem on one of my computers... in the following day or two I was talking to an associate who operates another business which paralells my business, so we see one another frequently on various job-sites.
He's a younger guy, married with one crumb cruncher and he makes the comment that I should be careful about the porn I download. To which I responded that I not only do not download porn; but I do not look at porn.
To say he was doubtful would be an understatement.
So I explained to him pretty much what I posted above... placing the emphasis on his marriage and not pedophilia.
Now I can't sit here and tell you that this guy went home and cleaned his pix files... and swore off pornography; but at the end of our discussion he returned to remark that much of what I had said was true; that he had never thought of it in those terms... and had never felt particularly good about looking at it; and so on.
Now I didn't slice him up and point a boney finger of condemnation... casting him out, bannishing him from my orbit... I simply let him know that what he wasdoing, was ultimately destructive to himself, his marriage and his child... and that I had always respected him, but that such could not be maintained, where I knew him to be a self destructive individual, who would risk his child being exposed to raw pornography and his wife's trust.
In short, I discouraged him... I made it clear that such was not acceptable to me and that such was not acceptable to the sanctity of his marriage or the mental health or innocence of his child, thus not acceptable for his marriage... and I let him know that I did not participate in such, nor accept as company, those who do.
Sadly, Monty, I have to scoot... But perhaps we can continue this in the near future.