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“I don’t want to read this” is totally valid.
“This is disgusting to me” is totally valid.
“I don’t want to read this because it is disgusting to me” is totally valid.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
okay. then i am authoritarian on this issue. you are not going to convince me that i am evil for believing that we should draw the line somewhere. there should be real consequences for writing fictional child porn.
i don’t mean fiction that deals with topics of child abuse and exploitation. i certainly don’t mean retellings of an abuse survivor. i don’t even mean stories that take an ambiguous perspective or choose to show the perpetrator’s side. i don’t mean a sex scene between consenting teens in a romance novel. i mean content intended solely to titillate that features prepubescent characters.
i think so much attention on this issue is given to the stuff that is ambiguous: romanticized abuse, noncon fantasies, teacher-student age gaps. when the topic of child sexual abuse comes up, focus is given to literary examples like lolita, which is from the perspective of a pedophile. these are things that are easy to apply the don’t like; don’t read mindset to, or argue that they serve a societal purpose to explore differing perspectives and dark, taboo subjects.
notably absent from these conversations is any acknowledgement of the fact that written and illustrated pornographic material of children as young as two years old is posted, encouraged, and shared on public websites with no consequence to the authors or the hosts of this content. it is not content written by silenced survivors, it is stuff with author’s notes about how sexy a fictional child’s behavior is and comments joyfully agreeing that they would “molest” a young character.
this is not acceptable and should not be ignored or excused. this content should not be hosted online. people should not be provided space to congregate over shared love of children, fictional or not.
“I don’t think anyone should be allowed to read or write this because it is disgusting to me” is authoritarian.
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