I am somewhat in the middle somewhere. I personally feel sorry for pedophiles. Many people with philias don't even find the more 'normal' things interesting in that way, so to those that are discriminated against by the law in this way it would be like condemning the interest in women for a more 'normal' person. Those that go out and rape/molest children, I disagree with, this is comparable to rape for someone else, which isn't a good thing, and deservedly that's jail worthy. Child porn as photos or videos is iffy, that's not fair on the children involved, but to put someone straight into jail off the bat because of that is rather harsh. Something that's not real, such as something someone drew from imagination, or in this case custom 3D models and such, is, dare I say it, fine. This is me putting myself into their position. Do not think I am pro-pedophilia: The individuals involved are misunderstood, and they're not bad people. It's not like they have the choice of being pedophiles or not. You can't call any of this art either, but then, you can't call 'normal' porn or anything art either, so don't be biased from that viewpoint. Like Hobo said, pretend ones, not real ones, seems to be the best thing really remotely viable here.
Many other philias exist which are not unlawful, but the people who feel that way aren't better or worse people than pedophiles. Pedophiles just happen to be an unlucky group from our society's standing.
And before you ask, no, I am not a pedophile myself.
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