Not as long as they're not the one who made them..

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Viewing them is just as bad - demand for videos contributes to the supply, and actual children were raped to make them. Plus anyone who has quite a bit of child porn is probably in on some ring.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, but what if they can't help having these thoughts, so the porn is actually their way of keeping themselves off real children?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Get them a councillor, or some shite. Also, I've never really done any research on this, but it watching child porn less likely to make you abuse a child IRL, or more likely? Because it seems to me that it would be more likely - Ie, watching it and wanting more, rather than it watching it and being sated with just the visual. But even if it was less likely, a child was still abused to make the video in question, and anyone watching child porn, even if it is to keep them from abusing kids IRL, is someone I would consider having a serious lack of morality, and someone that should not be out in public. Also, to not repeat the POTD a few days ago, INB4 someone compares paedophilia to homosexuality.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But, like said in the POTD, paedophilia is a natural feeling that can't be cured with merely counselling! It's as if homosexuality were considered wrong instead, and it were, just as you suggested, taken to counselling, it wouldn't help right? And I disagree, I say porn decreases the desire. Just like normal people can go living without sex by satisfying their urges with just porn, paedophiles probably can do the same. And I'm sorry I'm still comparing homosexuality with paedophilia, but they are a lot alike. I'm not saying they're both a sexuality, just that they're a natural interest that can't be cured. I mean if paedophilia were just some sickness instead wouldn't humans have already found a cure for it? Wikipedia says no cure has been found so far. I doubt that's ever going to change. Look at this: "Although pedophilia has yet no cure, various treatments are available that are aimed at reducing or preventing the expression of pedophilic behavior, reducing the prevalence of child sexual abuse.[11][89] Treatment of pedophilia often requires collaboration between law enforcement and health care professionals.[10][11] A number of proposed treatment techniques for pedophilia...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nope. Can't do it. I can't sit here and watch as someone just keeps on going about how "pedophelia and homosexuality are a lot alike" No. They. Fucking. Aren't. If your logic for this is that they're both about what someone is attracted to sexually, yes, that's correct, but that is ALL they have in common. They are NOT "a lot alike" At all. Following this logic, Hitler and I are a LOT alike because we are both human and male who happen to use our mouths to communicate. While those similarities are TRUE, that does NOT mean we are "a lot alike" I'm sorry, I know you probably just chose the wrong words to express what you meant, but I'm still sickened by your use of them. Pedophelia is the desire to have sex with children who have no actual idea of what the hell sex is. They can't consent and anyone who believes they can or would attempt sex with them anyway is one sick fuck that needs to be put away for a long time. Homosexuality is the sexual attraction to someone who CAN consent and IS old enough to understand the consequences. HUGE. FUCKING. DIFFERENCE. HUUUUUUUUGE! There's not a damn thing wrong with homosexuality, but pedophelia, absolutely. Don't compare them so carelessly. ...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes. They. Fucking. Are. And technically, you ARE a lot alike with Hitler. Did you know each human is about 90% alike with each other? That's no surprise, considering we're the same fucking animal. To us all cats look a lot alike, and if we ignore all those specific differences that we've grown to notice over all these years, so are we just as alike. Pedophilia may be wrong to you and the majority of today's society, but it IS just an interest in kids. Homosexuality is just an interest in people of same sex. I know it feels wrong to say this, but it IS technically true. They are actually just as similar as two humans, no matter how disgusting one of the two is. There are plenty of ways to describe each of those differently, using various positive and negative descriptions, maybe simplify one this way and the other the other way (like you've just done) but they're very similar and you can't change that. They are both simply natural interests. I do realise one of them is more wrong than the other,but that's no reason to simply say "Oh I hate one of them. We can't compare it to something good, no way!" That's like saying broccoli and candy aren't similar, even though they ARE. We...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think you got cut off again. Anyway, of course you CAN simplify pedophelia and homosexuality into "the sexual interest of children/members of the same gender" but humans are emotional, moral beings and the emotional and moral implications behind one of those things is just not there in the other. Those implications are a HUGE factor that just cannot be ignored by us. Naturally, Hitler and I are alike in that we are men who are opinionated and would like the world to be the way that we see is ideal. Yes, in this very simple, emotionless explanation, we are very much alike. However, the difference is that my ideals would not harm or torture people as his would. Just like pedophiles who choose to act on their desires with the object of their attraction are harming and torturing people as homosexuals would not. It's an extremely important difference and I think it's just dangerous to compare them in the manner as you did.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well maybe that's what it is, pedophiles prefer helpless young to have sex with while gays just want someone of their own gender. Now this way they both just have an interest, and while one is wrong and the other is perfectly fine, they ARE alike in that they're natural desires. I think it's more easy to understand paedophilia this way, having this whole gay thing go in this decade. I mean before, people thought of homosexuality as wrong but after time they agreed that they can't help themselves and it's all nature's fault. Paedophilia is the same. It's just that it won't be allowed ever. 9/10 things between the two are alike, and the other 1 is how they're seen in society. How can it ever be dangerous to make this comparison?! I'm just bringing paedophilia to its simplest terms, from that horror of a want that people have made it seem. All I'm saying is that it's basically homosexuality (which people already understand) but with a wrong twist involving helpless kids. I'm not saying they're equal on how right they are at all.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

ummm to have a sex with a child to me is not a natural desire. I dont see a 10 year old girl and say "Hey, I wanna fuck that girl" no way to me is that natural in any way.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You don't say that because you're not a pedophile, like how I don't see a man and say "Hey, I wanna fuck that guy" because I'm heterosexual. But it is natural because I'm pretty sure people don't just wake up one day and decide they're going to be a pedo.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's a dangerous comparison because there are already many people out there making that comparison, and not in the purely emotionless, overly analytical sense. They really believe that being gay is just as wrong as wanting a sexual relationship with a child. Throwing the comparison around just sends a message that this comparison is correct and okay to make. It's not. Also, your next to last sentence is rather telling and disturbing. "All I'm saying is that it's basically homosexuality with a wrong twist" Why is it homosexuality "with a twist"? The exact same thing could be said about heterosexuality. Are you now going to tell me that heterosexuality and beastiality are a lot alike? After all, heterosexuality is just beastiality AND pedophelia except with a wrong twist. Just please hear me out. My aim here is not to cut you down and make you feel like an idiot, but all I ask is to please just be more careful with your implications. Gays are already hated enough and the last thing they need is for more people to be saying it's correct to put them on the same level as pedophiles.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No no, it's just easier to compare this to homosexuality as opposed to heterosexuality with all this change with behaviour towards gays. I'm saying that as homosexuality is just an interest (and hetero too) so is paedophilia, except it's wrong. And yeah, bestiality could be used in the same comparison. I still don't see how it's dangerous. I'm just making this comparison to one clever guy who clearly understands that I don't think both the things are wrong. I'm not making a public announcement that the two are exactly the same thing. I do see how people could use this comparison against gay rights, but you know that's not what I mean. All I'm saying is that they're both natural interests that can't be helped, and while one is disgusting and wrong and the other is fine, they're still alike except for that one fact.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I appreciate the compliment, but flattery won't dissuade me so easily. I'll try to politely reiterate one last time, the most important point I'm trying to make to you and if you don't get it now, you won't. There are people out there right now who keep homosexuals from adopting children stuck in a broken foster care system and giving the government the power to tell two consenting adults what they can do with eachother because these people believe that homosexuality is JUST AS DISGUSTING as pedophelia. Some of the more extreme of these people take to bullying, beating and outright murdering these innocent people because they have it in their head that homosexuality is wrong and evil. I understand that YOU believe that they aren't as wrong, but SENDING OUT THE MESSAGE that it is correct to place homosexuality on the same level is telling all of those who would hate and physically harm these people that it's okay to do these horrible acts. That's all I can say. If I haven't gotten through to you yet, I won't. Just think about what I said before you respond.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Lol I was talking about Simon.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, I'm sorry it sounds a bit like one of those awful people. I'll pick my analogies better next time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Being homosexual is not a mental disorder. Liking little kids is. End of story. You will never met a pedo that acts like a normal person.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And how do you know that? How many people you've met admitted the were pedophiles?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This old man that tried to pick me up after school and the old man who tried to pick me up on facebook are all pretty freaking creepy. Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia it's a mental disorder, they are creepy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I demand a quote from that source that states that they don't act like normal beings.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They wanna touch little people. If you think this is normal, you might wanna go get yourself checked out. They act like they wanna touch little people, they give off the air that they wanna touch little people, every house I've past by that has a little red dot next to on the internet has a person who smiles creepily at me and talks about the dumbest creepiest shit with me. "Pedophiles have very poor social skills with adults; they can relate to the emotional immaturity of children. Children as sex partners are appealing to them because with children, they don't have to interact on an adult levels with mature sex partners." http://childprotection.lifetips.com/cat/63575/pedophile-search-and-statistics/index.html http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=spot_the_pedo

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Psht, are you saying no one else has poor social skills? Come on. And also this argument is like saying all atheists on the internet are huge assholes who can't stop arguing and calling religious people stupid. There ARE nice atheists out there, yet you don't know about them because they're neither cocky nor as obnoxious. They are among those normal quiet people that you don't know the religion of. Same goes for the sexual interest of people.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You apparently don't have any social skills. You can't tell when someone is a pedo, and you the way you talk to people is probably what makes people not like you. Anyway, I can tell your pretty desprate for arguments now, so I'm gonna go ahead and ignore whatever stupid comment you give me next. Go ahead, ignore the links, whatever. Bye:)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

:| I seriously don't care enough about pedos to continue defending them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm sorry but then by your own logic, heterosexuality and pedophilia aren't that different because you're sexually attracted to someone. Just because they may have some similarities doesn't make both of them okay. We have to draw the line somewhere, and that line is drawn when it affects innocent children who can't comprehend what they're consenting to.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What? I didn't say once that they're both okay. All I said is that they're similar.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree with you. Although child rape is clearly bad, pedophilia is something some people have and you can't say that they're terrible people because of it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

AWWW IT CUT ME OFF I forgot what I even said, I worded it so well! Ok well I'll start over "Although pedophilia has yet no cure, various treatments are available that are aimed at reducing or preventing the expression of pedophilic behavior, reducing the prevalence of child sexual abuse.[11][89] Treatment of pedophilia often requires collaboration between law enforcement and health care professionals.[10][11] A number of proposed treatment techniques for pedophilia have been developed, though the success rate of these therapies has been very low.[90]" Doesn't that seem like similar results to what would happen if homosexuality were tried to be cured, or some other strong natural interest?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Treatment of pedophilia often requires collaboration between law enforcement and health care professionals.[10][11] A number of proposed treatment techniques for pedophilia have been developed, though the success rate of these therapies has been very low." it works sometimes, so I'd turn them into law enforcment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I definitely don't think watching child porn is okay buuut studies show that there is less rape crimes in areas where people have access to porn and watch simulated rape pornography which might mean that watching child porn could potentially decrease sex crimes against children. Still, I don't think we should condone child porn for obvious reasons. And for people who are comparing pedophilia with homosexuality, pedophila is taking advantage of someone who is uncapable of making their own decisions while homosexuality is (usually) between two consenting partners. No comparison.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What if it belongs to a child? Joking aside, I really don't have much to say, everyone else covered my viewpoints.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Of course not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you don't stick to your blood, you won't have any left.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So if you report your father, all of the blood in your body just vanishes.. Yeah, I didn't think so.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hold on, so your father is your blood... but then suddenly it transforms into something literal? Try to stay consistent in your "witty" comments.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't see where you're going with this.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The bottom line is that you took a metaphorical sentence, which happens to be a line from Huck Finn, and butchered it into metaphorical and literal parts. It really isn't a difficult line to understand.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was just playing with words and turning what you meant into something stupid. So yeah I took it Literally. I understand the line perfectly fine.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Child porn does make someone more likely to act on his fantasies. It just fuels the fire. If someone has these urges, he should check himself into a mental hospital and try to learn to control it. By having kiddie porn, the dad be supporting the exploitation of a child, and I'd turn him in without a second thought, no guilt at all.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*would be

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Naw, man, everyone has their own fetish. I mean, let's take foot fetishes for example. If my dad has foot porn on his computer, and we gave birth to feet, then.... waiit....

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think people are understanding the parallels between homosexuality and pedophilia. Nobody is claiming that having sex with a child is the same as having sex with a consenting adult of the same sex, so stop misrepresenting the argument. The point is, if being sexually attracted to people of the same sex is natural, and therefore not wrong, than the same goes for being sexually attracted to children. Notice, I said being attracted to them, not raping them, or watching child pornography.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I suppose the debate then is if pedophilia really IS natural. It could stem from a multitude of reasons ranging from mental illnesses to their own experiences perhaps even in childhood. I think the difference is homosexuality actually has been observed with animals in nature, and I may be wrong but I haven't heard any cases of pedophilia in animals. I think animals realize mating with another one of their species who is undeveloped sexually won't increase the population, so naturally they would not be attracted to a member of their species not at sexual maturity. Now I understand the same argument can be made for homosexuality among animals, but as far as I know homosexuality has been observed and pedophilia has not. Again I could be wrong about pedophilia among animals, I don't know.

by Anonymous 12 years ago