(September 10, 2012 at 9:00 am)Red Celt Wrote: Nobody really took up on my suggestion wrt paedophiles masturbating to existing images (in the privacy and safety of their own homes) lessening the chances of further victimisation. Not a pretty image, I know, but sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture.
There's a good argument when it comes to the victims of such crimes becoming adult perpetrators of such crimes... and that any lessening of that domino effect will (eventually) reduce the numbers who have that illness. However unpalatable the solution might be.
hrug:
Whilst I think you may be right regarding allowing access to these pictures perhaps lessening these things happening to an extent, as the material desired would be available without a person having to create them him/herself, it still wouldn't be a victimless crime. Would those children in these photos want them to be publicly accessible? Wouldn't it hurt the victims in these pictures emotionally to know that people are still jerking off to them? If it were me, I would want the pictures destroyed, I can't imagine a single person within that situation to be happy with the pictures being in public circulation.
