Is it wrong to view child pornography?

child pornography is bad because in my opinion children don't choose
to be in them. but someone somewhere forced them to be

As far as I'm concerned, they can lock you up and throw away the key.

There is no harmless way to view kiddie porn. It's stomach churning for the SVU detectives who have to see this vile abomination.

The guy who started this thread is a sick man.

The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophile and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age of consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors,and campaigns for the release of all men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve coercion.

In 1993, the International Lesbian and Gay Association achieved United Nations consultative status. NAMBLA's membership in ILGA drew heavy criticism and caused the suspension of ILGA... Republican Senator Jesse Helms proposed a bill to withhold $119 million in UN contributions...The bill was unanimously approved by Congress and signed into law by Clinton in April 1994....

In 1994, ILGA expelled NAMBLA and two other groups (MARTIJN and Project Truth) because they were judged to be "groups whose predominant aim is to support or promote pedophilia."

In 1994 the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) adopted a "Position Statement Regarding NAMBLA" saying GLAAD "deplores the North American Man Boy Love Association's (NAMBLA) goals, which include advocacy for sex between adult men and boys and the removal of legal protections for children. These goals constitute a form of child abuse and are repugnant to GLAAD."

What other bits of the reality of the universe is it illegal to look at? That is some very strange thinking on the part of those people came up with this nonsense.

The US laws, at least, define any picture that have any possible sexual elements in it of a person up to the age limit of 18 as child porn and it does not even matter if the producer is also the only subject of the material.

The people like glitterbag....

Love the idea that two teens can legally have sex but if they have sexual pictures of each other they should come under the child porn laws and be locked up for years.

It is absolutely wrong

The consequences to the child , psychologically , is life long and destructive , to that child .

Anna Merlan at Jezebel has uncovered a rash of old-school victim-blaming that's cropped up around a nude photo scandal at Liberty High School in Liberty, Missouri. Eight high school boys have received suspensions of two to 10 days for distributing nude photos of their female classmates around school and online. The girls received a lecture about keeping their pants on. All in all, it's about the best outcome you can expect from a conservative small-town school, in that the school's response was focused on the issue of consent.

But no good deed goes unpunished, and people in the town, stoked by provocative news coverage from the local Fox affiliate, are furious that the girls aren't getting punished alongside the boys.

Fox 4 fired up the controversy by posting a poll asking, among other things, if the decision was correct or if the girls should have been suspended, too. Eighty percent of the thousands who responded said that the girls should have been suspended. Fox 4 then doubled down, with a choice quote from Liberty-based lawyer Eric Vernon: “I think if a young woman was to take a picture of herself, and then send it, that arguably, that’s a worse crime than what the young man did in just receiving it, because she’s the one that produced it, and she’s the one that distributed it, and those things are fairly serious felonies.”

This is missing the point entirely, since the pictures only came to light because the boys shared them. The problem with sexting isn't that women and teen girls are sexual and want use modern technology to share their sexuality (privately). The issue here is, once more with feeling, consent, and why you shouldn't share pictures like this without it.

It's time for a nationwide reckoning on sexting. It's clearly not a temporary fad but, like oral sex and Rule 34, a permanent part of modern American sexuality. We need to move onto the second phase, which should involve educating people—especially young people—on how to sext responsibly. While some risk reduction should be taught (only sext with people you trust, consider keeping your face out of pictures), the bulk of this education should be focused on respect and consent. While so many adults who should know better are ranting and raving about these girls and their phone pictures, at least Liberty High School is, however imperfectly, modeling the way that adults should address the issue with young people.

north wrote:

It is absolutely wrong

The consequences to the child , psychologically , is life long and destructive , to that child .

The child is not usually aware, so it has no effect on the child, it cant.

Bill: The US laws, at least, define any picture that have any possible sexual elements in it of a person up to the age limit of 18 as child porn and it does not even matter if the producer is also the only subject of the material.

Hawkeye: In other words the standard is "any pic that agents of the state imagine would give a perv a hard-on" is illegal. That is one hell of a way to run a government. And the elite wonder why they have lost the people! Idiots

The child is aware , but says nothing

how have I hurt the kids in the pics? None of those kids even know that I looked at them.

Hawkeye you are behind the times as the state when it come across someone that is a known victim in a collection will notify that person and or his or her lawyers so they will be able to take civil actions against the collector.

I have seen child porn (real stuff) on the internet a few dozen times over the years, stumbled onto accidently.

I remember once taking my computer in for service for something I did not feel like doing myself and when the demand for a password came up at boot up the tech ask me what the hell that was and my reply is that is an encrypted AES container with all the materials that I do not wish to share with you such as my tax info and my music collection and my porn collection.

You forgot one.