This just gets worse and worse. I'm agreeing with "atthisstage" again. I can think of few arguments more spurious than "proponents argue that fictional portrayals of elicit sexual activity encourages further activity by enticing pedophiles to stalk and molest children". Why should "fictional portrayals" of this particular topic be any different from fictional portrayals of any other illegal or immoral act. Since childhood, I have been bombarded by fictional portrayals of the most henious acts. I have seen John Wayne kill hundreds of Native Americans, and had (as a child) been given the instruments of performing such actions in play, but have never felt that this "encouraged" me to perform such acts in real life as an adult. I have felt no "encouragement" from seeing Elmur Fudd blow Daffy Duck's face off with a shotgun, several times in a 3 minute period, nor from watching the coyote attempt to crush the roadrunner with boulders and anvils. From my teen years, I've seen realistic movie portrails of organized crime, disorganized crime, psycopathinc crime against people, animals, property, and sometimes the whole world, and I have never felt "encouraged" to do any of this. So, to accept these "encouragement" arguments is to accept the censorship of all literature that does not depict the living of healthy, virtuous lives. And we've seen what happens when a government tries such restriction. Things like students, tanks, and Tiennemen square.