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10 April 2016cp viewing and raw prejudiceethan edwards
Imagine a man who sees a shocking video of a 4-year-old girl being abused. He went looking for this video in particular, and he finds it terrifically exciting. He is excited by what is happening. How do we make sense of this?
21 March 2016porn: desire overcomes morality for 40% of menethan edwards
An article reports that the majority of people just don't think that porn is good. Naturally they are discussing ordinary porn with everyone over 18 years old.
2 March 2016child sex abuse — recorded or notethan edwards
We care a lot more about what we see than what we don't.
5 February 2016saving kids from cpethan edwards
We want kids protected from child pornography - both as victims and as users
10 January 2016victimless?ethan edwards
Suppose we (temporarily) turn away from what is legal and what isn't and address only what is right and wrong?
17 October 2015critique of stopitnow's anti-cp campaignethan edwards
From the perspective of thinking clearly about complicated issues, there is a lot to criticize
15 May 2015compassion for cp viewersethan edwards
Suppose you accept that pedophilia is an inclination that is not chosen and cannot be changed. You accept that locking up pedophiles who have yet to do anything wrong is not at all humane (or practical). Yet...
24 December 2014pulling cp apart — other aspectsethan edwards
So far I've looked at the child's visible reaction in CP, and the activity that is being shown.
21 December 2014pulling cp apart — the activityethan edwards
Near one extreme, CP captures a child being penetrated vaginally or anally by an adult penis. When we consider the milder end, I would like to broaden the topic to include anything that someone might find erotic, and leave aside its legality — something that varies over time and jurisdiction.
19 December 2014pulling cp apart — the child's reactionethan edwards
Note: In this series of posts I'm going to describe sexual situations explicitly. You have been warned.
18 December 2014more on cp — preparing to go diggingethan edwards
While I believe that virtual CP should be made available so that pedophiles can get sexual satisfaction out of it, I do not feel that way about CP made with real children.
26 September 2014how does cp viewing affect contact offending?ethan edwards
The received wisdom for some time has been that looking at CP makes it more likely that a pedophile will offend against a child. When men who have committed a contact offense are interviewed, they often describe CP viewing as part of the process that led up to the offense. But there is no evidence of...
31 August 2014police rushing to disrupt familiesethan edwards
From time to time there are coordinated arrests of CP offenders. Here's a recent one from the UK .
24 August 2014the elusive harm of viewing cpethan edwards
I want to address the idea that watching a record of child sex abuse is itself morally wrong because of the effect it has on the child in the images.
22 August 2014do you believe in telepathy?ethan edwards
I feel so terrible. I have this video of a guy being followed by a sheep across a field.
12 August 2014seto on cpethan edwards
Police take some pains to make sure you really are a pedophile before they prosecute.
22 July 2014harm to children in cpethan edwards
I am naturally concerned about harm to children who appear in CP.
21 July 2014real cpethan edwards
Why this pedophile's views on CP possession are the same as the ACLU's.
20 July 2014virtual cp as thought crimeethan edwards
There is a lot of material that would fit under the heading of "virtual CP" — material that is intended to be arousing to pedophiles but does not involve any real children.