RE: A witchhunt or a misunderstanding? The bottom line on Steemit censorship
The fusion of "innocent" child-like material and adult content disturbs me too. One reason I don't call that porn is because that shit is everywhere, not just the porn industry. The music industry, fashion industry, everywhere you look children are having their innocence exploited. And it's become so normal people don't see it anymore.
A photo doesn't have to be intended to stimulate sexual arousal in order for it to do so. People have their own ways of sexualising something non-sexual. That's another reason I don't call it porn. The posts themselves did appear to be condoning paedophilia, but even at that, as said by @edb1984, paedophilia actually means being attracted to children pre-puberty or in other words adolescence, not the "legal age" to partake in sexual activity.
So paedophile might even be a strong word to use on the shitbird himself! Though pervert is not, and I still agree with flagging him for what he seemed to be condoning. The main reason I didn't like to see what the upvoters were being accused of is because I actually know people who have been through real sexual child abuse (adults now). It was not child porn as far as I know but having heard the horror stories of what they went through many years ago, to use the same language to describe the two, one being serious child abuse, that is not something anybody should be accused of without sufficient evidence of what is actually being described.
Good point re: the glitter industry (fashion/media/music) exploiting children and blurring the lines of accepted decency.
I remember in the early 90s sneering at some of the ads which were pushing the boundaries ; but I wasn't outraged at the time. what do you expect from Hollyweird freaks?
It is ironic(?) that I discounted the "slippery slope" argument against that direction in such ads, while at the same time using the same argument in my discourse on the evil of gun control.
And since then we have seen documentaries about the prevalence of child abuse in Hollyweird; we also can't forget that Hollywierd still celebrates Polanski as a "hero"
A second point, we have had a different tradition in our country from the rest of the world about the age we agree that a girl becomes a woman.
I think we are right, and I think the welfare rolls bear us out on the concept. But I do understand that many will still look to young girl-women for their own impulses.
This describes the entire child pageantry contests too. I don't particularly like that they exist, but they are not child porn/pedophilia. In other words I agree with you here and thing your response was well thought out and well written. I didn't catch this as it was happening, but I do check out @stevescoins posts from time to time.