Posted: May 25, 2016 5:34 am
laklak wrote:What about the inevitable CGI or even VR child porn? OK or not OK? Particularly when VR becomes more...immersive. No one is harmed in the production, it's all just pixels, or perhaps later direct neural stimulation. Would this make pedos want the real thing, or keep them from doing it IRL?
Yeah, this is the problem: We don't know. There's not even enough data to make an informed decision because who the hell wants to study that? The methodology will be garbage because no research group is gonna go "Well, we created all these pedophilic images, distributed them to randomly selected pedophiles around the country, and later check to see how many raped kids over a 20 year period, all while protecting their identities. Comparing their rates to the rates of the control, we found that the control group offended x% more with a p value of tell my husband and kids I love them I can't believe I've done this."
Alternatively, we can check whether people that are into other paraphilias, like coprophilia, are satisfied by niche porn or if they really want to smear shit on themselves/others instead. That's obviously imperfect because, while pretty fuckin' weird, being into swap.avi or 2 Girls 1 Cup is harmless.