Things Will Never Change Until...

So I guess it is time for me to be honest. Like most males with a computer and a pulse I have used the Internet to look at porn. So I can not say that porn containing consenting adults should be totally banned from the Internet without feeling like a hypocrite. However, I do feel that some things do need to change and until this change happens child porn on the Internet will survive.

From what I have seen of porn sites, many are divided into categories feeding any possible fetish that is out there. Included in this is a category called "teen." Where supposedly legal aged women are engaging in sexual acts while posing as teenagers. Some may argue that this is just an innocent, totally harmless way for older men to fantasize. It can also be said that if the women posing as teenagers are really over eighteen nobody is getting hurt. I would totally agree with both of these viewpoints. But what happens when a "budding" pedophile sees these sites? Does this online role playing calm his/hers urges or does it simply stoke the fire?

My personal opinion is that this type of online role playing merely stokes the fire of pedophiles looking for a way to calm their urges. I have come to this opinion by looking at it the following way. Why does anybody look at porn? The answer most likely is that they are looking for a way to quench their thirst for sex while they are unable to do the real thing. A "budding" pedophile may look at "teen" porn while trying to calm their urge without risking breaking the law. This would actually be a positive thing, but you have to ask the question. Does looking at porn actually quench the thirst for actual sex? I believe the answer to that question is a resounding no. It may for a while but eventually it is going to make the viewer want the real thing more and more. So what will happen to the "budding" pedophile that looks at "teen" porn? More than likely this will calm their urge for awhile but that will only last so long. Eventually they will go looking for more, and if you can find child porn without even looking for it, how easy must it be to find if you are really hunting it?

Until the porn industry tightens its strings and stops playing into societies obsession with youth, the Internet will remain polluted with child porn. Am I saying that porn needs to be restricted to only showing people over 40? Of coarse not! What I am saying is, that porn producers and webmasters shouldn't have a category called "teen." That is a fetish that just shouldn't be fed. Many sites say that they have a zero tolerance for illegal pornography, if this is true webmasters should want to get rid of the "teen" category. These webmasters should not want to feed a group which is most likely largely made up of closeted pedophiles.

So no, I don't have any problems with porn when those involved with it are consenting adults. My problem comes, when porn sites that are supposedly following the law wittingly or not feed the fire for child porn. I am not saying that ridding Internet porn sites of "teen" categories will eliminate child porn. But until the attitudes that allow that category to exist change nothing will ever truly improve.