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Originally Posted by Blitzgal
I think historically chemical castration has not been very effective in stopping these people from raping children, so I don't have much faith that providing something to get them aroused and riled up would do any better. And how do we know about these magical pedophiles who never act on their impulses? Again, if they participate in the underground market for kiddie porn, they are still abusing children simply by expanding the market for this product.
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Question: do you have stats on chemical castration and recidivism in pedophiles? Or where do you have the impression that it has not been effective.
And I know about the magic pedophiles from Savage Love, where people have written in to discuss it (anonymously because to do so otherwise would certainly lead to problems, and obviously this anecdotal evidence depends on taking people at their word, but as I understand it, for every pedophile who acts, there are likely some number of those who don't).
Also, about the prevalence of kiddie porn, I don't know how familiar people are with Doug Stanhope's bit about it, but (to paraphrase), he talks about how people complain about how prevalent it is, but that he's never actually found it online, and he's looked for lots of shit, and found lots of other crazy shit, so (something like) "if pedophilia is happening as much as people think, then cock-fingering is happening in this room right now."
And that's not to take away from the fact that (of course) the pedo video market is abusive and exploitative and bad. But nowhere did anyone say that gold star magic pedophiles are participating in it. Maybe some are, which makes them like a silver or bronze star, comparatively, but I would say that some probably aren't. Maybe some of them draw their own kiddie porn caricatures, use it to get off, and then burn it so no one can ever find it.
It seems to me that the answer to the real big question here is impossible to do anything but speculate about
: will fake kid porn help fewer kids be molested? Either way, it's a risk.
But it does also seem to me that if child porn is being created all the time, it's because the demand for it exists, and if the system could be infiltrated and that demand could be met by CGI child porn, then fewer actual kids would be actually traumatized by their participation. (Not that I know how to do such an infiltration, or if this seems feasible. Just philosophically, it seems possible.)
PS What if we could figure out which kids were sociopaths from a young age? Like Dexter? And just use them, because they're NOT innocent. Eh? Anyone?