[pp.int.general] Some info required about Jörg Tauss.

[Reinier Bakels]

As I said before: I believe that allowing "virtual" child pornography 
reduces the likelihood of ("actual") children to be sexually harrassed. And 
it is a major benefit that fighting child pornography is no longer an 
argument for human rights( freedom of speech) erosion for anybody.

> The prohibition of "child pornography" is dishonest because it applies
> to people who are sexually mature, and of an age at which it is normal
> for people to have sex.
>
> The public thinks that only perverts will be punished for "child
> pornography", but this is false because the law twists the meaning of
> the word "child".  In the US, the law that supposedly prohibits "child
> pornography" applies to adolescents 17 years old.  These people can
> legally have sex and even marry, in some states; but if they take
> pictures of themselves having sex, they can be (and sometimes have
> been) convicted of "child pornography".
>
> Normal men are not attracted sexually to children, but they are surely
> attracted to the sexually mature teenagers whom this law labels as
> "children".  The perverted criteria of this law define all normal
> males as "perverts".
>
> I don't know whether such laws in Europe apply to the same age range.
> Perhaps they are more sensible.
>
> Aside from this, it is clear that laws against "child pornography",
> even if they cover only children and not sexually mature teenagers,
> provide a great excuse for censorship.  We have seen in countries such
> as Denmark and Australia that this censorship is frequently extended
> to other things once it established.
>
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