Mason opened this issue on Jun 26, 2002 ยท 32 posts
FyreSpiryt posted Wed, 26 June 2002 at 6:29 PM
I wrote a letter to my congressmen (and also Senators) explaining my view as a digital artist, with a copy of the article that was printed on Reuter's, and a Poser image I'd made of the Mil Preschooler, in clothes, so I could point out some of the flawed assumptions behind the bill. Whether it'll do any good, I don't know, but at least I tried. On thing that is often forgotten: Pedophilia is a neurological disease that neither needs nor utilizes a "trigger". No one is going to see a piece of computer generated child porn and become a pedophile. After all, does a normal person need to see an issue of Playboy (or Playgirl), or does just seeing a cute member of the opposite sex IRL suffice? It's also a disease that has no cure, so no legislation is going to decrease the demand. Given that, if a pedophile's going to get child-porn images one way or another, I rather they be made with a computer mesh than with someone's son or daughter.