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That's basically how I feel. I'd much rather these kinds of people jack it to drawings and AI Generated images if the alternative is that they're going to go after real chidlren.
At some point the fake images won't do it for them and then they'd fix their attention to real kids. We don't want to wait for that to happen.
It's like using a drug with your threshold increasing each time you use, they're will be a time that your old limit will have no effect on your satisfaction level.
Is that proven or just bullshit speculation?
None of us are specialists here, so people saying it is and people saying it isn't harmless are both speculating
Seems like speculation, but personally I'd be amazed if it were completely incorrect.
If people who are attracted to children are constantly looking at CP, they are inevitably going to become more comfortable with it. Same with any other type of porn - do you think people who watch tons of torture porn dont become increasingly unaffected by it? It's also the same for any other illegal or shocking content. I spent enough time on 4chan 10+ years ago to vouch for this personally.
I'm not saying that everyone who looks at these AI images will act on their desire, but some people will absolutely end up wanting more after having open access to pictures of naked children.
Honestly it's a bit concerning how people are voting this down, why do we value the sexual gratification of pedos higher than the potential safety of children?
This is the War on Drugs argument all over again, except using porn instead of marijuana as a "gateway".
You're correct that there can be some crossover and some unstable people could have an addiction that gets out of control, but I don't think there's any proof that happens in high enough numbers.
By your logic, does everyone who's into bdsm have a sex dungeon in their bedroom?
Your comment reduces everyone to their base fetishes, as if that were the only thing enacting pressure on an individual to act, and I don't believe that's the case.
I'll come right out and say it, I'm into inflation.
The amount of times I've went out, bought a helium tank, and shoved a tube up anyone's ass is just about equal to the amount of times I've been the Republican Candidate for the US Presidency... and I'm not even 35 yet.
I think we all have weird kinks, it's a part of the human experience.
Heck imagine if we thought this way for EVERY sexual desire someone had.
"Porn for people who prefer blondes? I dunno, what if they get carried away and start dying random brown haired people? The consequences are too great!"
Sounds fucking ridiculous when you think of it that way.
Source: dude just trust me
Do you know how much porn there is of the My Little Pony characters? Tons
Do you know how much of an epidemic there is of cartoon watchers going out and fucking ponies? Somewhere between null and zilch... Maybe one or two extreme cases, but that's around the same amount of people who watch Super Hero movies and try to jump off the roof in order to fly.
This is a slippery slope fallacy if I ever saw it.
Heck, if anything we've seen that restrictions on porn actually leads to increased instances of sexual assault, in the same way a crackdown on drugs just leads to more deaths from overdoses.
If letting some sicko have fake images of pretend children saves even one real child from being viciously exploited, I think it's worth it.
It's not ideal and yeah, it makes the skin of any sane person crawl... Ideally we should be out curing pedophiles of their sexual urges entirely, but since we don't have a way to do that why let perfect be the enemy of good? I mean what other ideas do we have? Cause "To Catch A Predator" may have been good television, but even that had ethical concerns ending in lawsuits lost and suicides performed, and castrated everyone convicted isn't exactly 8th Amendment friendly... and even then that prevents repeat offenses, not initial offenses. (Prevention > Cure)
Now all this aside, we do need to look at this on a case by case basis. If real children are being used to model for the AI or fake images are used as a form of blackmail (Think "Revenge Porn", but way, way worse), then cuffs need to be slapped on people.