viewing stolen nude photos

[johan]

Demand for nude photos existed long before money did. Me and/or you clicking or not clicking on a photo found via a google search is not going to move the needle of demand for that sort of thing one bit. I understand why you would feel that way, but don't kid yourself into thinking those actions have any sort of potential to translate into impact.

You don't think clicks add up? 

Of course clicks add up. But clicks don't drive demand, profit does. With adult sites, profit is in paid access memberships. So yes if you're going to sites, paying for access and then viewing stolen nudes while you're there, you are indeed very much so driving the demand for that sort of thing. I don't pay anyone for porn. Ever. If you want to paint me as part of the problem, you're gong have to do better than clicks add up.

I do. I don't think that I alone can change anything with my clicking habits, but I do think that if fewer people viewed illicit photos, fewer illicit photos would be bought by these sites. 

And you would be wrong. Its porn. Fewer people viewing it aren't going to do squat. Ever. To achieve the results you're speculating about, you need be talking not fewer people but metric shit ton fewer. Orders of magnitude fewer. And no good intentions effort is ever going to achieve that.

By the way, I'm not talking about just nude photos. Those can be had anywhere, with the consent of the subject, and I don't have a problem with that at all. The problem here is that folks are defending and/or justifying the enjoyment of nude photos taken from people who had no intention of those photos ever being made public. There's a difference and you should not gloss that over.

I don't believe I glossed over that. However, I also don't believe I defended nor justified any kind of enjoyment on the subject. I said that if I heard of photos of a given celebrity existing, and if I was curious to see what the hubbub was about, I'd probably google the photos and I wouldn't feel as though I was part of the problem for doing so. Is that defending the enjoyment of them? I guess it depends on your perspective but it sure doesn't seem like it to me.