'Call for ban on child s%x robots'!!!!

[floo]

My stance entirely, wiggy - I was thinking of such images too. It could go either way, and I know I'm not qualified to know, though some others may be.

Two things I regard as fairly uncontroversial:

1. Sexual orientation isn't chosen;

2. Suppressing it or trying to do so frequently has unforeseen and generally negative consequences for someone somewhere.

Actively encouraging it could damage children, who are the most important. 

[wigginhall]

Good point, NS.  And I don't think paedophilia has one 'cause', or one characteristic pattern.

[Shaker]

Actively encouraging it could damage children, who are the most important.

It could but again, we don't know this.

[Nearly Sane]

But amongst all this rational discussion, can I just say once again yeeeuccch!

[wigginhall]

I think some paedos actually don't like young children but teens (hebephilia), and I think there is legal porn which caters for them, as there are 18 year old models who look very young.  But again, I don't know if this is a release for such people, or encourages them to act it out.  There have been proposals to ban child-like models, but this seems impossible to legislate for. 

[Shaker]

I think some paedos actually don't like young children but teens (hebephilia), and I think there is legal porn which caters for them, as there are 18 year old models who look very young. 

There's an American porn star (forget the name) who, despite being in her 20s at least, looks like a teenager and a young teenager at that. Apparently some hapless sap was hauled into court on a charge of possession of indecent imagery of a minor, only to have said ... actress turn up, documented up to the eyeballs - birth certificate, passport, driving license, you name it - proving that whatever she looks like, she's a fully grown woman with a thriving career in adult entertainment and leisure. End of trial.

[Aruntraveller]

But amongst all this rational discussion, can I just say once again yeeeuccch!