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The problem is, and not swerving this topic off course, that people conflate this and some sacred notion that any material portraying the depiction of sex between children is Wrong and should be illegal. The most healthy thing to do would be to legalize purely fictitious child porn such as erotic literature, art and animation. Certainly these things are gross and repungant and because of that, we want to make the argument that they in some way act as a gateway drug to real child porn or even child rape, but the weight of evidence swings decidedly against that.
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It's a simple double standard, really. Fictional games and movies where people are being slaughtered and murdered by the masses are being sold on every street corner. Yet fictional child pornography should remain illegal because it presumably encourages pedophiles to do the real thing.
Granted some people believe violent games make you violent (same idiots in the British government if memory serves) but normal thinking people know that's not the case. So then the question becomes; why is it okay to entertain yourself with one fictional crime and not the other?