Do Teen sites promote pedophilia?
 

The news today is filled with so many stories of abuse to kids. From the priests molesting boys, to the murdered little girls (Van Dam and Runion), and now to the big child porn ring they just busted up. Its a sick world.

Almost every site has a "teen" section. One of the selling points for these sites is "we have the youngest girls!". Fortunately, the models usually appear in their twenties and the only thing that makes them appear young is their outfit and ponytails. Business must be good for them because teen sites are all over the place.

Do you think teen sites promote pedophilia and lead to an increase in child molestation? Or, do you think that people who have the "pigtails and catholic school girl" fantasy are simply able to keep their fantasies imaginary and never seek to act on it?

Where is the moral issue drawn? ( ie who cares what she looks like as long as her ID says she's 18)

In my opinion it is praying on the paedophile nature in some online perverts...but fuck it I am a capitalist and one persons money is as good as anothers.

Sorry.:(

I'm a believer that the Internet in general leads to pedophilia. Easier access for all those freaks that used to sit home frustrated. Now they can share files and sit in teen chat rooms luring in unsuspecting youth.

I doubt teen content has much to do with it at all...

Ugh. You people should really get your terms straight.
Someone who digs children, i.e. preteens, is a paedophile, whereas someone who digs teens is... a normal man. Men have had sex with 14 year old teens for the past 100000000 years, and have been attracted to them for just as long. Now, over the past few hundred years it has been outlawed. So does that mean men are suddenly wired differently, not digging chicks under 18 anymore? I think not.

Now, porn with chicks under 18 is illegal, so instead we make porn with chicks that are over 18 but look younger, like Tawnee Stone. Now, does that encourage paedophilia? No, it simply caters to a very normal and healthy desire - the desire for young and attractive chicks.

sorry had a thought and then changed it. :)

Jak

I don't think teensites provoke pedophilia any more than bondage sites provoke kidnapping and torture.
How much is that? Up to you to decide, not much imho.

I don't think that teen site are bad - Imagine how many sick people could be outside "hunting" but instead they sit in front of their PC jurking off...

Same thing with hookers. Our world would be full of rapists if the prostitutes dissapear.

That argument has always made me uncomfortable.

I personally have never used the services provided by a prostitute, and even at my darkest hour... when there was no sex in sight, I never contemplated rape.

Guys who pay for pussy are horny nasty bastards. That being said, rape is a violent crime... a power issue. A desire that no prostitute is going to be able to fulfill. So even if you did kill off all the hookers in the world, the little old guys who like to get hummers in parking lots by tranny hookers are not going to turn to rape because they cant get their man-pussy for the week.

A rapist is gonna rape whether teen porn and prostitutes are available or not.

Teen porn appeals to every mans little pedophilic fantasies. And I am not talking about 10 year olds... but everyone knows that every guy on the planet wants to pork his little 16 year old neighbor. I dont think that makes you fucked up, I think that makes you human.

I totaly agree. But if the prostitutes prevented ONE just one guy from doing something stupid then it is worth it...

Bingo. There's hope for you yet. Yes, fantasies should be fed and nurtured, not censored and hidden from view. When material that fuels people's fantasies becomes unavailable, it is <i>then</i> that more predators crawl out of the woodwork than we already have.

do granny sites promote necrophelia????

I hate to be picky, but did you mean to ask whether they promote pedophilia or child molestation/abuse? I mean - who cares if Joe Surfer is a pedophile as long as he doesn't abuse/molest (or cause it to happen to) kids?

Pedophilia is the biggest fetish there is. Teen sites are just trying to capitalise on it :)

Whew! I thought I was going to be the only one who gets off driving by the highschool.

I was about to say, it's a big jump from an 18 year old to a 12 year old or a 12 month old.

Molesting a 17 year old girl is statutory rape, not pedophilia. Pedophilia is an interest in pre-teens. There is a difference between raping a defenseless 8 year old and and having sex with a 17 year old. The 17 year old is judged under the law to be not competent to decide to have sex. The law has to draw a line somewhere in the code, and that line is at 18. Of course, just as there are 25 year olds who really aren't in fact competent to decide when to have sex, there probably are some pretty sharp 15 and 16 year olds who are, but the law has to draw a line and that line is at 18. At least, that makes it easy for everyone involved. Otherwise, the courts would be involved in competency hearings all the time, and the courts are overburdened already.

The interest in "teens," I think, has for many to do with beauty and a love of perfection. Basically, I don't think a girl will ever be as flawless as she is in the general 18-22 or so age range. After this, things start to show signs of aging, they sag, stretch, wrinkle, etc. I'm not saying a 30 year old woman can't be beautiful. Actually, she can be fabulously beautiful, but her beauty is generally not based on her flawlessness.

The cynic will say that an interest in teens has to do with their naivete, which is "a power thing." Sure, for some guys. But I work with mostly sub-20 year olds, and I can tell you that a lot of them are college girls and are not dummies. I know a lot of other guys work with teens from the dregs of society, but that is not always the case. Four of the girls I've worked with are Reed College students, which means they are VERY smart girls. Probably near or at genius level. If I'm taking advantage of anything, it's their rebelliousness, not their naivete. However, if you remember your own teen years, you'll know that at 18, you didn't want people making your decisions for you, and so I don't. There are certainly much more predatory people (and photographers) around than me: I don't try to have sex with them, and I let them know who the bad guys are as much as I can. After that, they get to make their own decisions.

Of course, there are probably guys whose interest in teens IS not so pure. But, what can we do about that? Do TV shows about burglars promote murder? (Remember: the question wasn't whether teen porn promotes an interest in more teen porn, but whether it promotes an interest in something much worse: illegal child porn, which is why the analogy I chose was burglary>murder.)

Well, I'm a believer in human freedom and responsibility. I don't think people are sheep or automatons. Whatever someone does is something he decides to do on his own. And if he makes a bad choice, HE and not someone else is responsible for that choice.

If I open up a stand to sell hookahs, I'm selling hookahs. No one has a gun to their head to USE a hookah, and if they bought the hookah for that purpose, it was on their mind before I sold it to them right?

Why is it that people take leave of their senses whenever the topic is CP or has CP implications?

Be careful! As Bill Maher has said, "When they come to take your rights away, they'll do so in the name of protecting the children."

This is why I havent watched TV in months.

No offense to you but fuck Bill Maher.

No one with a TV show has anything worth saying.

Mostly, I agree with you, but on the topic of Bill Maher, we'll have to disagree. He's the one major TV figure who got canned for actually being interested enough in relevancy to speak his mind, and so he lost his show.

That's a good point: Perhaps we should also arrest people who think about burglary or mentally machine-gun their boss.

When the topic is CP, suddenly for a lot of people Thought Police sounds like a pretty good idea.

I dreamed about going over the speed limit last night, and wanted to kick my daughter's dog when I visited her. Maybe somebody should arrest me.

This society is so schizoid it's ridiculous. On the one hand, it mouths a concern about an impure interest in teens, while on the other you go to a high school sporting event and you get to see a bunch of nubile 16 and 17 year old girls in short skirts jumping in the air while doing the splits, cartwheeling to show their panties (and we're all hoping to see a crotch strap rip, or see something poke out more than it should, right?). And what does this have to do with football or basketball, anyway?

WTF?

following your logic, should CP be availiable on the net ?

Bertrand Russell once gave an example that went basically, if we covered people's eyes every time a train went by, if we forbade talking about and especially showing an interest in trains, the result would be a morbid interest in trains. The attempt to stop CP probably functions just to make interest in it worse, just as forbidding smoking just makes teens more interested in doing it.

I myself am not saying that CP should be legal, but I AM saying that the "cure" probably will always be a fuel for the disease.