Legalization of child pornography?

[Kayenneh]

Oh my.. I have a few issues with this article that don't sit right with me.

So, on your lovely stroll in the park, you turn a corner, and to your shock, see a 12-year-old being brutally raped right in front of you.
WHAM. You are now a criminal, guilty of recording, distributing, and possessing child pornography. You are now guilty of a crime that carries higher penalties than the rape and molestation of a child right taking place right in front of you.

This is a really dystopian way of looking at it. If we really did record every single moment of our lives and indeed came upon such an event, I think the 12-year-old and her/his parents would be thrilled that someone could provide hard evidence and get the rapist into jail. On the other hand, if/when such technology is introduced to the masses, some laws will have to be rewritten to avoid a situation like this in order not to blame the innocent passer-by. But we don't need to legalize child porn.

Our current laws treat the video of a seven-year-old being brutally raped, on one hand, and two seventeen-year-olds who have eyes for nothing in the world but each other making consensual passionate love, on the other hand, as the exact same thing. This is mind-bogglingly odd.

Again, rewrite the laws, don't legalize all of it.

Technically, most people growing up today lose their virginity through rape. I say “technically”: they lose their virginity through rape because legislators have redefined “rape” to include consensual, voluntary, loving sex between people of typical age of sexual debut.

This is an abysmal statement and a insult to all who have been raped. And what goes on between two (or more) people in the bedroom without being documented cannot be called porn, so why even bring up this?

Making insecure teenagers feel guilt, fear, and shame over their own bodies and natural desires, causing them to suppress their instincts in fear, even criminalizing natural behavior and destroying their lives, was never a side effect.

How about instead of spending efforts on legalizing something that is illegal for a good reason, spend more time on advocating good sex education for all school children. If you're introduced to the topics of sex and sexuality by an educator, I say it's more beneficial for the society than legalizing child porn.

The free speech war is won/lost at the battle of child porn.

Really? Another absurd absolute that might be a small part of the problem of free speech, but definitely not the whole battle. Cui bono? Yeah, I really wonder that, but to be sure, if we legalize it, it's not the children.