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Originally Posted by SexyScribe
People know that?? Why do people know that? Because they've been told that. Just like you're telling them now. For you to insist that "both are porn" simply reinforces the notion in the eyes of 'society' that we of the legitimate pornography industry acknowledge, accept and condone those activities.
You're right from a semantic point of view. The definition of the word revolves around sexual arousal, and arguably, pedophiles revel in that kind of content, thus rendering it technically "pornography" under the accepted denotation of the word.
But why should WE accept that? Why shouldn't we strive to change the CONNOTATION of the word? to change what it REPRESENTS in the minds of ordinary people.
Words do not have their definitions poured in concrete. Language is fluid and continually evolving. Check your history on language theory and evolution. Words mean whatever people believe them to mean.
You have the power with a simple word to disassociate yourself from those who cause harm to children. Why would you refuse to use that? because the dictionary says so?
If we turn cp into (for example) Child Obscenity, the dictionary will come to reflect that. Not the other way around.
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Language is indeed fluid and continually evolving, but like I said in a previous post, it is also something of the people. And the people seem unlikely, to me, to adapt an artificial term to describe something and at the same time change an existing definition just because a few pornographers object to the existing language.
I refuse to use language that I consider ridiculous, just for propaganda. I don't want to abuse language to get some silly moral point across. I sell certain types of porn. Not all porn is good. I don't sell the illegal and bad types. If people don't want to understand that and think that I sell kiddy porn, they are retards who can go fuck themselves. Just like people who think that when I say "I like fucking", I mean to include fucking chickens, can go fuck themselves.
Porn has a bad connotation, not because it is associated with child porn, but because many people consider it immoral in the first place, and because sex is still considered taboo. Trying to change a few words won't help, and most likely won't work either.
And yes, we should accept the association with child porn. That association is real, is true. It's both people fucking, and no words are going to change that. It's an actual, factual association. That association, however, is a small one. Much like the one between sex and rape, or the one between jacking off and jacking off in public, or even the one between getting a blowjob and infecting someone with HIV.
Child pornography is the overlapping area between raping children and pornography. Our job lies within the overlapping area between consenting adults performing sexual acts and pornography.
What we should do is not to deny the pornography part of child pornography, but rather emphasize the consenting adults part of our job. Simply because it makes more sense, and has a better chance of working.