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Ursprungligen postat av brtkrbzhnv
Vad är det som skall vara förbjudet att framställa? Din andra formulering tyder ju på att det inte är barnpornografi som sådan.
Jag tar mig friheten att klippa in ett inlägg jag skrev på engelska FB under min exil från detta forum.
I believe there is a strong case for the de-criminalization of certain types of child pornography, and even a complete legalization of other kinds of child pornography.
1. Pornography reduces the amount of sex crimes. Japan, where faked rape-videos are widely available (and extremely popular), has 2.4 reported rapes per 100,000 people, compared to 34.5 per 100,000 in the US. The same goes for sex crimes against children. In Japan, there are plenty of mangas (comics) and erotic animations (hentai) involving children, or women who look like children. There is even a whole genre called lolicon, which deals especially with very young children. Child pornography was completely legal in Japan until 1999, and nude images of minors are still somewhat legal (it’s a grey area, because nude images of children are perfectly legal as long as they are not deemed “obscene”). Japan has one of the lowest rates of sex crimes against children in the world.
The same goes for other countries. Sweden, where adult pornography is easily available, has a much lower number of reported rapes than countries that have banned porn, like Singapore. When Denmark legalized pornography in 1965, sex crimes did not rise, and in many cases declined. Child pornography was legalized at the same time, and sex crimes against children decreased by 80%, according to
Berl Kutchinsky, one of the leading experts on pornography and the effects of pornography on society.
When the pedophile has access to material that he can use for sexual gratification, there simply is no need for him or her to sexually abuse children.
2. Nudity is natural and should not be reserved for pornography. I therefore see nothing inherently wrong with nude images of minors. That some people will use the images for sexual purposes is not an argument to forbid it – before the internet (and still today) many pedophiles masturbated to images of children in underwear, taken from mail order catalogues. That does not mean that the children are being molested, nor are the images in the catalogue pornographic. Other pedophiles who want to stay legal masturbate to pictures and videos from beauty pageants for children. That does not mean that beauty pageants should be considered pornographic.
We don’t see anything wrong with nude pictures of infants – they are just “cute” and aren’t sexual objects in our minds. But when it comes to children, and especially adolescents, the line between cute and sexy becomes blurry. Even non-pedophiles often find images of children arousing. In a study published in Child Abuse and Neglect and Journal of Research in Personality,
John Briere at
The University of Southern California Medical School found that from a sample group of 193 men who answered anonymously, 21% had some kind of attraction to children. 9% had sexual fantasies involving children and half of these men masturbated to such fantasies. Yet only about 4% of the population are pedophiles.*
Most people respond sexually not only to images of their primary sexual focus. It is possible to measure the sexual response, ranging from 0 to 100%, and thereby create a scale that shows how much a person is sexually aroused by different stimuli.
Kurt Freund at the
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, found in a study using a penile plethysmograph (an instrument that measures the blood flow to the penis) that heterosexual men attracted to women
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“showed arousal to pubescent girls that was 57% of their response to women, and arousal to 9 to 11 year old girls that was 34% of their arousal level to women.”
These men were not pedophiles, but their bodies had a more or less involuntary sexual response when subjected to stimuli in the form of images of young girls. He further found that
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“homosexual men attracted to men showed an average arousal response to pubescent boys that was 62% of their response to men, and arousal response to 9 to 11 year old boys that was 19% of their arousal level to men.”
This is why nude images of children and adolescents are so taboo in our society – even people who are not attracted to children or adolescents often find such images arousing. This undoubtedly scares a lot of people, because they might think that they are the monsters, the pedophiles. That is probably why images of children in their underwear have almost completely disappeared from mail order catalogues. We – not the pedophiles – have sexualized the image of a naked or semi-naked child to the point where we are so afraid that a pedophile might masturbate to a completely innocent picture that we will no longer print it.
* Rättade en siffra.
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Kurt Freund, Assessment of pedophilia:
http://www.mhamic.org/sources/freund.htm
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Briere, J., and Runtz, M., "University Males' Sexual Interest in Children: Predicting Potential Indices of "Pedophilia" in a Nonforensic Sample," Child Abuse and Neglect, 1989, 13, 65-75.
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