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Eric:

--- Quote from: Dario Western on March 08, 2010, 10:36:52 pm ---Sadly there are still many people out there who think that videos featuring innocent child and teenage nudity such as the enature ones and the FKK ones are child pornography.
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Er, while they might not be in the strictest sense, I point to what you go on to say:


--- Quote ---It all comes down to one single word: *INTENT*. 
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If their web site is a fair sampling, then they produce videos that predominantly follow around naked pubescent and pre-pubescent children, and mostly girls at that.

Why would a genuine nudist want one of these videos, let alone be willing to shell out a fairly large sum of money for one? It's nothing that we don't see at a typical resort, and we also know that the average nudist is a lot older and male-er than the average nudist in those videos. They have all the appeal of flipping through a stranger's family's photo albums. At best, only a voyeur could be interested.

Why would someone interested in the lifestyle want one? They're not particularly informational. They don't offer an honest representation of nudist what a nudist resort is like - which, again, aren't dominated by young naked girls. They don't answer any questions that the curious might have. And why would anyone merely curious about the lifestyle opt to buy rather expensive DVD's from Russia as their main information source?

Simply, I cannot fathom any potential audience for this material save for pedophiles, and the intent of both producers and consumers is fairly clear - they're using nudism to get as close as they can to child pornography and stay legal. So yeah, while I don't think that we should concede the argument that they're not pornographic, I don't think we should endorse the stuff either.

Personally, I'm loathe to prosecute anyone for thoughtcrime. The only images outside the bounds of free speech ought to be those that depict actual molestation - and we should prosecute those vigorously. Everything else we should just acknowledge are legal and not try to read other people's minds as to their intent.

Though let me also say this - I don't believe in witch hunts. I think it must absolutely suck to be a pedophile. You're left with urges you know are morally wrong to pursue, you're completely demonized and painted as the worst thing ever by society, and you have virtually no resources or community to reach out to for support. If we as a society managed to actually make the distinction between molesters and pedophiles, and showed a little more sympathy and support towards the latter, maybe fewer of them would wind up becoming the former.

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