Things take time and time changes things.
I was informed three years ago not to use the words 'pornography' or 'porn', instead to use adult entertainment. Now and mainly only on this thread do people want to be pornographers again.
Yes, it would be nice if the world used a different word than child pornography, but that's not the way it is currently on an international basis. I will discuss all this at the FSC Board meeting and with the ASACP Advisory Council and Approved Members.
However, I must say that this discussion of lexicons, semantics, etc. is disturbing. My god, you are having a high level discussion about children being sexually abused. Of the 6000 monthly reports of suspect cp sites that ASACP receives, approximately 250 are determined to seemingly be CP and sent on to law enforcement.
Let me be blunt about the reality of these CP reports. These are not images of 15, 16, 17 year old kids.
These are pictures of babies some as young as 6 months being raped, penetrated, sodimized (sp?), used as sexual objects, beaten, and sometimes even worse.
I've spent the last three years dealing with this reality on a daily basis and because of my position at ASACP being able to do something about it - not just talk or post threads (
http://asacp.org/press/pr071105.html). This effort is only possible because of the help of many concerned Sponsors and Approved Members who have supported the ASACP effort. It's not a reality I ever pictured myself having to deal with and would not wish it on anyone else.
How many of the people on this thread are parents? I doubt very many because a parent would not have such a discussion. Instead, they would be in tears and holding their child even at the prospect of something so horrific and then they do something about it!
Take a moment to imagine if this happened to your baby or child, imagine if happened to your younger brother, sister, niece or nephew? Think about how you would feel and what you would want to do if you found out someone abused them in such a way?
So please, talk about the real issue: the real victims - the babies, the children - what this does to their lives. That is if they are lucky enough to survive physically; FYI - they never recover on an emotional basis.
The ASACP mission has been and will continue among other things to help the adult entertainment industry in this ongoing battle against CP and to help educate mainstream about this effort.
ASACP will be at Internext, please stop by booth #613 if you want to talk. Also, I will be on the Industry Town Hall panel Saturday at 3:30 PM.