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05-12-2007 11:29 AM |
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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
(Post 12250555)
You guys know damn well that the men searching around for "teens" most likely get off on underage girls and might even be pedophiles.
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Quite the opposite. No paedophile is going to expect to find underage girls on "regular" porn sites, regardless of whether or not they are using the word teen.
Similarly, the surfers turned on by girls with pigtails, braces, plaid skirts, etc are not paedophiles. No different than maids, teachers and the rest, it is a dressing-up fetish, hence the appeal of similarly dressed girls, clearly well into their twenties and sometimes beyond.
As to the girls often said to be naturally young looking or enhanced to be so, it isn't at all unlikely their appeal is that they actually look like their age. A heck of a lot of the girls out there who may really be 18 and 19, are dressed, made up, manicured and hair-styled to be virtually indistinguishable from older girls. And that's before we starting passing off girls aged anywhere between 20 and 23 as still in their teens.
When a card processor or anyone we are forced to work with, prohibits how we classify what we offer, we may have no choice but to comply. There are things such as labelling our sites, which we should do voluntarily to pre-empt reasonable complaints about our practises. But we are wasting our time attempting to placate those who are against porn in any shape or form: fix one issue and they will simply move on to the next. Pandering to them is very close to admitting we are doing something which, if not illegal, should be. If we cannot refer to a teen as a teen, how much of a leap is it to saying that we should not be showing her at all?
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