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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
great points.. .. i think more to SS's point, and certainly to mine, is that rather than making references to content that involves minors and calling it 'child pornography', to instead use phrases like 'child exploitation', or 'child sexual abuse', rather than 'child pornography'.
no different than in hip/hop culture to use replacement words, fo'shizzle or the world of politically correctness.
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Child exploitation, as well as child sexual abuse, are things that aren't necessarily child pornography. Fucking child hookers in third world countries is both child exploitation as well as child sexual abuse, but not child pornography. Likewise, what a pedo has on his computer is not child exploitation, but kiddy porn.
Child exploitation is the wrong word for child pornography, plain and simple. They are both two different phrases, with different meanings.
If you are bent on finding a term for child pornography that doesn't contain the word "pornography", you have to find a word synonymous to "pornography", and if you want to make it stick it has to be catchy. "Audiovisual depictions of child sexual abuse" simply doesn't have a good ring to it for the media, and thus will never become the dominant term.
Trying to change the words in this particular way is a losing strategy
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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
from a nomenclature standpoint, "child exploitation" content is a subgenre of pornography..much like beastiality, but to the religious right and the DOJ, ALL pornography is bad, and some, like CE and B, are illegal, the rest, they find immoral.
so SS is articulating a simple, personal way that each person can demonstrate to others, that CE is not part of the adult biz, is to not referer to "that" content as "child pornography"... so when someone says they are a "pornographer"... the connotation is not like what oprah inferred that this person must take pics of kids, but they are engaged in legal, lawful, (and healthy) visual, auditory, or written expressions of human sexuality.
calling it by the right name is great start, doing something about it is a bigger step, and that is what joan, gracie, tim, and i do everyday at ASACP.
fight the CE'izzle!
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Unfortunately, child pornography is the right name. Just like "adult entertainment". Now, the religious right will never give up linking adult entertainment and child pornography, simply because they do - and want to - associate the two.
However, if we want to show that we have nothing to do with cp, the best thing is to show that what we are doing is something different in a way that has an actual chance of sticking (and just happens to link us to the "soft side" of adult that is socially more acceptable).
"Are you a pornographer?"
"I work in adult entertainment. I sell entertainment by and for adults."