View source for Three reasons possession of child porn must be re-legalized in the coming decade

But first, let me say that I started watching porn at age ten, as did most of my friends, and I enjoyed it. I actively sought it out and kept seeking it out (as I still do). Since I didn't have access to the net at my age ten, I imagine people would start seeking it out earlier today, basically as soon as they get past the "boys/girls are icky" phase. [...]<br>
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It turns out that the pressure for banning possession of child pornography comes from a whole fruit salad of Christian fundamentalists, under the pretext of protecting children. In the United States, this is pretty much every nutjob in the entire Midwest. In Sweden, this role is primarily dominated by the front organization ECPAT, which pretends to care about abused children, but which has its roots in the fundamentalist Christian organization ECTWT (where the E stands for <i>Ecumenical</i>), and where these Christians keep being in majority at every general ECPAT assembly. Every time these fundamentalists have mentioned child abuse as a pretext to demand new laws, we end up with new criminalization of teenagers instead. [...] Making insecure teenagers feel guilt, fear, and shame over their own bodies and natural desires, causing them to suppress their instincts in fear, even criminalizing natural behavior and destroying their lives, was never a side effect. It was <i>the whole idea</i>. [...] The fix for this particular problem is to tell the fundamentalist Christians in ECPAT and similar organizations to fuck right off with their perverted high-horse dogmatic morals, throwing them out of the legislative process headfirst, and limit the child pornography laws to cover pre-pubescent children only. [...]<br>
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Rape of a seven-year old and two seventeen-year-olds making love should not be covered by the same legislation, because they are not the same thing. In case a hard age limit is needed, I would suggest separating children from teenagers at that exact age - children are children until they become teenagers. Many enough have their sexual debut at 13 today. (This suggestion doesn't mean porn of 13-year-olds could, or indeed should, be sold. Commercial exploitation can always be separately regulated. What it does mean is that teenagers cannot and should not be branded as sex offenders for something they do voluntarily, happily, and consensually.) If these despicable Christian fundamentalists – including ECPAT - really cared about children, they would welcome such a change, for all the reasons described above. [...] (I predict some people will have problems with a 13-year age limit. The countries that already have this limit, e.g. Spain, display no problems at all. In contrast, those with an 18-year age limit have piles and piles of stories of destroyed teenage lives – victims of <i>law</i>, not victims of crime. I like evidence-based policymaking and much prefer it to moral-based policymaking, and a 13-year limit is evidenced to work well.) [...]<br>
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The overall freedom of speech is won or lost with restoring freedom of information and, as a result, re-legalizing possession of child pornography.<br>
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<i>source: Article 'Three Reasons Possession Of Child Porn Must Be Re-Legalized In The Coming Decade' by Rick Falkvinge (founder of the first Pirate Party); falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-must-be-re-legalized-in-the-coming-decade/; Falkvinge on Infopolicy; 7 September 2012</i>

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