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This guest blog, which describes the actual content of criminalized images and videos of minors, was written by an anonymous source. I have not personally verified any of its claims, and for obvious reasons this article contains no visual illustrations nor assistance in locating criminalized content. I have also done my absolute best to remove any text that is unnecessarily titillating, much to the chagrin of the author.
This essay serves as a counter to the lies of those who profit from child sex hysteria, not as a means to get off. The profiteers cannot be allowed to have the only narrative.
Contains written descriptions of child porn videos for informative purposes
FairBlueLove wrote: Thu Jul 30, 2026 10:13 pm
This is a good article. Although I'm wondering: Wouldn't the antis dismiss it by saying that all these kids were 'victims of grooming'?
I wonder what definition antis would give to the word "grooming". They would probably say that it means the child is being coerced or forced, or made to think that what they are being "forced" to do is normal. But much of the evidence online similar to what the article details, shows that none of that is true. Do antis really believe that every girl or boy that makes videos pleasuring themselves, or showing off their bodies, are forced to do it by some unseen adult off-camera? I know if I had grown up in the age of cellphones and webcams, I would definitely have been making videos of myself, because I was very horny as a youth. Antis' bias will always prevent them from seeing the obvious, from accepting the evidence that clearly contradicts their hysterical beliefs.
It is a good article but I think we sometimes misunderstand the views of non-maps on these subjects.
It seems to me there are two different, even conflicting arguments made against this stuff.
The first is that young people are not sexual. This is the weakest argument and is made by people who either have never been around kids in any capacity or people who are just highly gullible into believing nonsense. When I was a kid, I was horny a lot and spent far too much time trying to get laid with very little success. It wasn't for a lack of trying or sneaking peaks at my dads hidden porn collection. It wasn't just me, my friends were always trying to get laid to, were sharing magazines they'd found, we were just a normal horny bunch of people. It wasn't just the boys, I knew which girls wouldn't be interested and which girls might and which girls were out of my league because they were only interested in banging older guys with their cars and money. I was around 7 when I first touched a girl down there but had no idea what I was doing, but I was enjoying it and knew enough that it was horny. By 11 I knew girls who had boyfriends as old as 17 and there were always some guys at school who were getting success with girls, and girls with their reputations.
As a parent I've had to deal with that. My first daughter would masturbate all the time pretty much from the age of a baby, but by the age of 4 we were really worried so sought help from parent groups, only to be told it's normal, don't worry, kids masturbate. After that I read in the same parenting forums from other parents feaking out about the same thing. As my kids grew slowly through the years, they'd tell us about life at school, and how such and such is a slut or that guys is always chasing girls. It hasn't changed from when I was a kid. Recently, a woman we know who's never had kids was telling us how she read about some teacher who had sex with a student and got busted and she proceeded to lecture about how terrible it is because no child even knows about sex, she couldn't possibly have wanted it, people aren't sexual until they're grown up and she couldn't have even known what sex was. So the one person lecturing about how kids are not sexual is the only older person I know who's never had kids or been around them, but she's convinced she's an expert on the subject.
The second which I think is even more common than the first argument is that kids are sexual but they need protecting from themselves. My wife has made the same argument and it's a more rational argument. Kids are horny, left to themselves they'll be shagging anything that moves and not focusing on studies and other necessary things. This is a view I think most parents have and it's why they watch their kids so closely. It isn't that they're thinking about strangers out there so much as their kids shagging around and getting pregnant or getting into trouble. Many parents are easier on sons because they kind of accept that they might be out there trying to shag about but they can't get pregnant, it's just a lads thing, while daughters can get pregnant and have to deal with that long term. There's a reason kids are lectured about not uploading naked selfies, why sex education is taught in schools, why young people get access to contraception, why we tell our daughters to roll their skirts down and not go out advertising it too much. We know kids are sexual, the worry is that they think with their hormones first and take risks.
Sex education helps but I think when we think about how to engage with the wider population, we shouldn't be just hung up on those who think kids aren't sexual because I don't think they're even the majority. It's about whether kids should be allowed to have the sexual experiences they pursue and if they do, how is that done safely. People want kids to be safe and happy, they don't care about maps. I think these are separate issues. MAP rights is one issue, an important one, but that's distinct to child sexual activity rights, that's about how to ensure kids are not deceived or pressed into sexual experiences they don't want and if they do want such experiences, how is it done in a safe and fun way that brings benefit beyond feeling good. I mean eating chocolate feels good, bunking off school to play with friends feels good, but how is sexual experience and growth presented and built as something beneficial and advantageous to young people?
