Originally Posted by punkworld

This is one of the oddest little threads I have ever seen.

The reason that there is a connection in the words is because there actually IS a connection between normal pornography and child pornography. Materials depicting sexually explicit acts made for the purpose of sexual gratification are pornography, period.

Attempts to change language in ways like this are both futile and absurd. Just look at the word fucking: whether you fuck a consenting adult woman, a prostitute, a dog, a fresh apple pie, a 2 year old, a corpse, a tied up lesbian or the Lord Jesus Christ himself, it's still fucking. It can be normal, obscene, abusive, delightful, harmful, bizarre, forced, consensual, disgusting, deranged, illegal or just plain boring. Still, it's fucking and nothing else.

Someone said in this thread that child pornography is a subgenre of pornography, and indeed it is. It is important to point out, however, that what we do is also a subgenre of pornography: pornography which only contains consenting adults.

Should butchers object because the meat a cannibal serial killer strips from his victims and eats is also called meat?