Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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The living embodiment of "ignorance is bliss"
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I'd rage against it becoming the norm.
I'd agree with you there, but I'd also point out that its way too late.
Don Henley's Dirty Laundry was released in 1982. "Its interesting when people die, give us dirty laundry" -
If even one person who watches child porn then escalates into action as a result of watching it (and I guess that's the most difficult thing to assess), isn't that one too many?
I have to admit, I've been at a mate's place and spent an evening playing Gran Turismo. Then on the way home, I have found myself exceeding the legal speed limit in circumstances where I would not normally have.
I guess its lucky I wasn't playing Grand Theft Auto. -
We do what we can...
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Jeremy Andrew - this applies to cartoons.
How ironic, I stole it from the Simpsons :-)
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I'd buy that. Is there any data on any other countries?
For example, any countries that markedly decreased the availability of porn and had a subsequent increase in crime...
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As the sign at the Reader's Digest Condensed Books convention said:
"Brevity is ... wit" -
Yeah, and I find this very shaky ground. Consider: watching lolicon/shotacon (link SFW) will turn you into a paedophile. Now consider: watching gay porn will turn you gay.
But that's not (quite) what they're saying - the line is that people who already have pedophilic tendancies and view the porn get their tendancies reinforced and normalised and hence can be encouraged to try their fantasies in real life.
Compare "watching gay porn makes you gay" with "watching gay porn can encourage closeted gay people to express their sexuality"
I still say there needs to be a ton more research before I buy into that line, but it is a more reasonable statement.
As it stands, it is still a double standard that apparently watching Dexter won't encourage borderline serial killers to express their tendancies. -
I agree with Isabel. In answer to your question Emma, I'd have to say, never. It should never be illegal for an 'adult' to look at a picture of something it is legal to do.
The problem is where the picture is of something legal that is pretending very hard to be something illegal. However, as previously mentioned there is a huuuuuuge double standard when it comes to sex as opposed to other illegalities. I was about to say when it comes to children, but then I thought again:
If depicting recreations of illegal acts was itself illegal, then the entire CSI genre would be on shaky ground, to say nothing of Quentin Tarantino. And I know I've seen various recreations of crimes against children - kidnappings and worse on such as Criminal Intent and SVU.So its not a case of "won't someone think of the children" its all about the sick perverseness that is sex.
It comes down to whether viewing depictions of an act can reasonably be expected to encourage a significant number of people who otherwise would not, to engage in that act. So far it seems widely accepted that seeing pix of anything sexual will incite any number of perverts to carry out their hidden deviant desires - while watching any number of murders and violent acts on TV, film and video game has no discernable effect.
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Ahhh, the goggles - they do nothing!!!