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I'm kinda torn on how to feel about the banishment of cup porn.
Pro: Looking at pictures/reading stories of porn involving underaged participants actually increases the chance a pedophile will act on their urges.
Con: I know a lot of people who enjoy that kind of art but would never, ever, EVER hurt a child.
Pro: I don't like looking at cub porn because it makes me feel sick and very sad.
Con: Why should I have the right to decide what other people want to look at?
See, it's a lot of gray area. I'm glad it was banned at the end of the day, regardless of the reason for it having been banned. When a child is molested, it causes often irreparable damage, and we should never, ever encourage anyone who is inclined toward doing such a thing.
I don't buy into the argument that pedophiles who abuse children can't help what they do because it simply isn't true. They choose not to. And if it is true that there's a pedophile out there who really can't control himself, well, we have places called mental institutions to put people who can't control the urge to harm themselves or others. I'd be more than happy to see them put away there for the rest of their lives.
But I think the best outcome to this would have been to force any one posting adult images to put a non-pornographic icon over it, and then to make a better tag system in which we could choose exactly what tags we wanted to show up in our watch folders and in the browsing section of the site. You could, for example, check 'fat furs', and then anything tagged with fat furs wouldn't show up for you. Just being able to turn adult on or off isn't enough.
I suppose that's a bit of a moot point by now.
..what it comes right down to is that if you ARE the kind of person who WOULD molest a child, and you find a website willing to harbor images of children in sexual situations, well, you've just been given a big old dose of delusional 'MY URGES AREN'T BAD, THEY'RE OKAY BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE SAY SO'. Thus encouraging you to act on them.
A lot of the cub porn on FA also has this dangerous strain of showing the cubs enjoying it. I can assure that children do NOT enjoy being molested, and even children who consent to it are doing so out of fear or the fact that they have already been abused and think it is all right. It still royally messes with their heads, and then they get to enjoy the crushing guilt that they said 'yes' to it.
I could go on for hours, but yeah. That's about all. I put this here instead of a journal cause I felt like it.
Pro: Looking at pictures/reading stories of porn involving underaged participants actually increases the chance a pedophile will act on their urges.
Con: I know a lot of people who enjoy that kind of art but would never, ever, EVER hurt a child.
Pro: I don't like looking at cub porn because it makes me feel sick and very sad.
Con: Why should I have the right to decide what other people want to look at?
See, it's a lot of gray area. I'm glad it was banned at the end of the day, regardless of the reason for it having been banned. When a child is molested, it causes often irreparable damage, and we should never, ever encourage anyone who is inclined toward doing such a thing.
I don't buy into the argument that pedophiles who abuse children can't help what they do because it simply isn't true. They choose not to. And if it is true that there's a pedophile out there who really can't control himself, well, we have places called mental institutions to put people who can't control the urge to harm themselves or others. I'd be more than happy to see them put away there for the rest of their lives.
But I think the best outcome to this would have been to force any one posting adult images to put a non-pornographic icon over it, and then to make a better tag system in which we could choose exactly what tags we wanted to show up in our watch folders and in the browsing section of the site. You could, for example, check 'fat furs', and then anything tagged with fat furs wouldn't show up for you. Just being able to turn adult on or off isn't enough.
I suppose that's a bit of a moot point by now.
..what it comes right down to is that if you ARE the kind of person who WOULD molest a child, and you find a website willing to harbor images of children in sexual situations, well, you've just been given a big old dose of delusional 'MY URGES AREN'T BAD, THEY'RE OKAY BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE SAY SO'. Thus encouraging you to act on them.
A lot of the cub porn on FA also has this dangerous strain of showing the cubs enjoying it. I can assure that children do NOT enjoy being molested, and even children who consent to it are doing so out of fear or the fact that they have already been abused and think it is all right. It still royally messes with their heads, and then they get to enjoy the crushing guilt that they said 'yes' to it.
I could go on for hours, but yeah. That's about all. I put this here instead of a journal cause I felt like it.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Baby fur
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File Size 132 kB
"I don't buy into the argument that pedophiles who abuse children can't help what they do because it simply isn't true. They choose not to. "
There are a great many pedophiles out there who do not abuse children, because they understand that it is wrong and therefore do whatever they can to fight those urges. Therapy, etc. Those people have all my support.
"..what it comes right down to is that if you ARE the kind of person who WOULD molest a child, and you find a website willing to harbor images of children in sexual situations, well, you've just been given a big old dose of delusional 'MY URGES AREN'T BAD, THEY'RE OKAY BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE SAY SO'. Thus encouraging you to act on them."
I don't nessicarily agree with this. There are some who would probably go that way (Armin Meiwer anyone?), but many who would not.
I agree that thyere is a difference between fantasy and reality, and that some people see stuff like cub porn as purely fantasy, yes. They don't find real children attractive, just furry drawings of them. That's great! But the people out there who do are more of a danger than I'm willing to allow, yanno?
There are a great many pedophiles out there who do not abuse children, because they understand that it is wrong and therefore do whatever they can to fight those urges. Therapy, etc. Those people have all my support.
"..what it comes right down to is that if you ARE the kind of person who WOULD molest a child, and you find a website willing to harbor images of children in sexual situations, well, you've just been given a big old dose of delusional 'MY URGES AREN'T BAD, THEY'RE OKAY BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE SAY SO'. Thus encouraging you to act on them."
I don't nessicarily agree with this. There are some who would probably go that way (Armin Meiwer anyone?), but many who would not.
I agree that thyere is a difference between fantasy and reality, and that some people see stuff like cub porn as purely fantasy, yes. They don't find real children attractive, just furry drawings of them. That's great! But the people out there who do are more of a danger than I'm willing to allow, yanno?
This is EXACTLY how I feel about it. I am friends with people who think cub porn is awesome but are appalled at the idea of child molestation. And it's not those people I am worried about.
But as you said - it's just too great a risk, and we should NOT harbor people like that or make them feel welcome here in any way.
Also - that's why I very specifically worded that as 'pedophiles who abuse children' and not just 'pedophiles'.
But as you said - it's just too great a risk, and we should NOT harbor people like that or make them feel welcome here in any way.
Also - that's why I very specifically worded that as 'pedophiles who abuse children' and not just 'pedophiles'.
Another point - I have wanted to draw cub characters on here before, but I have never done so BECAUSE they allow cub porn. I knew that at some point some asshole would have to ask me to draw my underaged characters doing something gross.
Now I am actually considering drawin' some baby Figs and Twigs.
Now I am actually considering drawin' some baby Figs and Twigs.
Spending time with psychiatrists who try to rehabilitate pedophiles as well as reading many books on the subject, such as Courage to Heal. It may sound like a strange thing to look into, but I was sexually abused, and for a time, I NEEDED to understand why someone would hurt me that way. So I read as much about it as I could.
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