• Pooptimist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Hear me out on this one:

    If we take it as given that pedophilia is a disorder and ultimatly a sickness, wouldn’t it be better that these people get their fix from AI created media than from the real thing?

    IMO there was no harm done to any kid in the creation of this and it would be better to give these people the fix they need or at least desperately desire in this way before they advance to more desperate and harmful measures.

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      1 year ago

      Because eventually looking at images might not be enough

      Edit: Do we want to be normalising this? It’s disturbing how there’s people defending it.

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          1 year ago

          But you will at least have an outlet if you get yourself a partner or hire an escort. There’s the prospect of sex in real life. You’re not forever limited to porn.

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            1 year ago

            I did not have sex in years, yet luckely nobody thinks i am a danger to women. It is nearly as if people do not suddenly feel the need to rape someone just because they dont have sex.

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              1 year ago

              Slippery slope arguments almost exclusively come from the only people who they seem to affect. You see the same worrying mentality from religious people who tell you that without god they would be commiting serious crimes. Most people have inherent morality that these people seem to lack without strict legal or religious guidelines.

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                1 year ago

                I mean that makes sense i guess. I hate these “arguments” because it kills the debate. On the other hand i am totally not used to see any debate on this topic without it derailing into people calling each other pedos. So props to most people in here.

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      1 year ago

      Sex offenders aren’t allowed to watch porn at all in my state.

      Because science suggests watching porn, and getting your fix as you put it, through porn, encourages the behavior.

      Watching child porn teaches the mind to go to children to fulfill sexual urges. Mindfulness practice has been shown to be effective in curbing urges in all forms of addiction.

      So, no. Just no to your whole post.

      There’s effective treatment for addictions, rather sexual or otherwise. Rather the addiction feeds on children or heroin. And we don’t need to see if fake child porn helps. Evidence already suggests it doesn’t and we already have effective treatments that don’t put children at risk and that don’t encourage the behavior.

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        1 year ago

        Not judging/voting your comment, do you have the data at hand? Just out of interest.

        Some input though, you are not making a difference between offenders and non-offenders and i doubt there is even good data on non offenders to begin with.