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In reply to the discussion: Why the "My bad sex wasn't rape" editorial is so utterly, utterly vile. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)or adult gay sex with pedophilia.
It's ludicrous, but that doesn't stop would-be moral crusaders with an agenda from trying to conflate them.
They're totally different things, and it's an obvious, flailing act of desperation on the part of the people who can't string together a coherent moral argument against the consenting adult stuff beyond "we don't like it"
(or, more often than not, "I told my husband 3 times to stop looking at it and yet I keep finding it on the computer" ... )
Anything involving anyone under 18 is very illegal, and rightfully so. But the assertion that the 95% or so of humans who, at one time or another, like to look at pictures or films other adults either naked or having sex, are somehow dancing down the yellow brick road towards child abuse- it's absurd, and it's not borne out by any actual evidence. Instead, the places where we have seen entrenched communities and enabling of things like child abuse are places like the Vatican--- Hardly adult porn central.