ElectricAardvark opened this issue on Apr 10, 2002 ยท 100 posts
Entropic posted Sat, 13 April 2002 at 1:27 AM
As an interesting aside, Chuck, in 1999, the Los Angeles Police Department funded a special unit to investigate links between sex crimes and pornography. The results were conclusive, and many studies since have backed it up from many different samplings. 83% of all cases involving the molestation of children, also involved child pornography, or photographs that pictured children either nude or lightly clothed. Interestingly enough, the LAPD conclusion was that use of child pornography/images of the nature involved lowered inhibitions and blurred the line of acceptibility in people, making them more likely to act on those impulses. Personally, I analyze the statistic and think, pedophiles are just very likely to obtain those images. I'm not going to say either way on this issue, but I DO think that Renderosity is allowed to set it's own standards, regardless of legal clarification. While a lot of people would no doubt get angry about the censorship involved, even more would get angry if an outside organization came in and began screaming and putting pressure on Bondware. Against the law or not, I personally would support Renderosity covering it's ass on this one. Regards, Paul