Milton Diamond, a researcher at the University of Hawaii, says that making child porn legal could help to reduce sex crimes against children. Diamond cites findings from other countries showing that if child porn is legal, molestation drops precipitously. In countries where child porn was once legal and has now been banned, child sexual abuse has increased as offenders have a … different outlet for their desires. Despite …
… this, Diamond says he is not condoning using real children to make child porn, but says that this porn can be made artificially and be electronically simulated.
I don’t quite know what the motivation for publishing this is, but child porn is just not okay, no matter how you slice it. Whatever simulated porn may be (and I’m sure it won’t really be that realistic), it’s isn’t right to promote an atmosphere that involves sex with children. Ever. The countries that do allow child porn may think they are solving a problem by lessening the accusations of molestation, but the children that appear in these films and photographs will have psychological scars for the rest of their lives and may turn to destructive behaviors to deal with their emotional issues. Even if this legal child porn is simulated, it is tacitly saying that underage, illegal sex is permissible. The idea that allowing porn will eliminate sexual abuse is a lie, because since children in these films can’t consent – they are being abused.