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zazen

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5. it's when living people are abused and then filmed
Thu Jun 21, 2012, 11:27 AM
Jun 2012

That's not a representation. It's a documentation of a crime.

Even if we could establish that all of the persons in pornography circulating the Internet are of age, how do we know they're not trafficked or being held hostage by a pimp-boyfriend through violence and drugs?

That's not paternalization.

If it's regulated, I might not like the themes of violence (in fact, I detest them), but then it becomes an issue for education (or of civil litigation, perhaps, but not a criminal matter).

When it's unregulated, men may be getting off on actual documentation of rape, torture, and child molestation. Why anyone would want to actually take physical pleasure from that is beyond me.

Know your source. Don't use the products of slave labor.

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