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Originally Posted by chodadog
I see what you're saying about consent and whatnot, and how child porn differs from porn involving consenting adults. But there is one blindingly obvious similarity; the intent is to arouse the viewer. They are both types of pornography.
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It pains me to have to agree with you, but I do. The current, accepted definition of pornography involves the arousal of sexual desires... so, you're right. In that case, I'll be more specific.. what I'm referring to is
legitimate pornography. i.e. pornography that, at its very least, does not defy the consent laws or trash anyone's human rights. i.e. the type of pornography that we represent here on the boards.
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Originally Posted by chodadog
I'll tell you the one thing i like about your idea to call it Child Exploitation/Violation or something along those lines. It would sort of increase the scope of what it would include. Child pornography is unfortunately overly specific. A lot of stuff that i personally feel should be considered pornographic is not, but who knows, maybe it would be considered exploitation.
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Thank you.
Taking the pornography out of cp (to borrow baddog's title
) does 2 things:
1. It helps to define a category of content (child obscenity/exploitation) that we as an industry can condemn. As it stands now, the finger that we're pointing at cp only points straight back to us. A different name for the content we all despise would distance it from us, psychologically, emotionally, symbolically.... even in the search engines!
2. It allows us -pornographers- to reclaim the word for our industry. It allows us to redefine the meaning that the word holds in the minds of the masses. Pornography is never going to be
embraced by the masses but we can make strides towards at least separating ourselves from the criminals who prey on children.