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We are told that one of the reasons child pornography is illegal is that viewing or watching child porn re-victimizes/harms the child depicted in the images or videos. Why then does this argument not apply to footage of children being physically beaten or assaulted?

Somehow a child is harmed when someone views/watches CP but not when someone watches a video of child being physically assaulted?

Another question is why the does re-victimization argument not apply when LEAs, Judges, Lawyers,or organizations like NCMEC, IWF etc view child porn images and videos?

Are we to believe that children are only harmed when a regular person views/watches child porn but not when when LEAs, Judges, Lawyers etc watch/view it?

because they're all hypocrites, hope this helps

The honest answer is that people who push re-victimization arguments just haven't actually thought about it. It's not likely to be something they genuinely believe in beyond serving as an excuse to criminalize porn they don't like.

SavannahApe wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 6:06 am Another question is why the does re-victimization argument not apply when LEAs, Judges, Lawyers, or organizations like NCMEC, IWF etc view child porn images and videos?

Before I continue, I'd like to mention that by victim, I don't mean consensual MAP/AAM relationships, I mean non-consensual and unethical production, as I understand that there is a difference between MAPs and people who only care for profit
I agree with everything else, but this is likely because they aren't viewing for pleasure (most of the time), and for the victims own good if it's actual trafficking/abuse, and the victim would like the perpetrator to receive punishment.
For the re-victimization argument, I agree that it's very hypocritical to punish people for consensual pornography but not genuine abuse just because one is sexual and one is "discipline".
Another thing I'd like to add, I wish they'd spend the time they waste on consensual relationships with AAMs on adults who were forced into pornography, they care more about age rather than being ethical.

Because most people are not getting sexual gratification from it is the honest no bullshit answer. We already know that society considers sex to be the absolute WORST thing a person can do to someone under societies current world view....

GRAPHIC WARNING The above said we just for whatever reason as a society put sex in this weird ass category I cannot quite put my finger on. On one hand sex is good because well, mostly all of us are here because of it. On the other anyone under 18 having sex with someone with too much of an "age gap" is somehow the most traumatic thing a person can go through even without any actual rape involved.

IMO our big ass frontal lobes has made us smart...true, but also made us rather idiotic as well especially with all the moral gaslighting we do in terms of "this is okayish but SEX oh god SEX is the most FUCKED UP THING EVER....BUT ONLY for CERTAIN demographics of people!". I battled with truly understanding how humans reason with things especially like this ever since i was a "MiNoR" myself. Honestly I do think a LOT of it is group think and people just follow whatever is the "correct" way to think but overall people are far FARRR more disgusted over a SA of a minor than a minor literally getting turned to mince meat and tortured.




I swear to god humans are the most retarded creatures on the planet in so many ways and again I must state how I just, do not understand our collective thought process and it physically hurts my brain trying to. Anyway you guys get the gist of what I'm trying to say so I'll stop my rant.

Theendoftheline wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 5:08 am The above said we just for whatever reason as a society put sex in this weird ass category I cannot quite put my finger on. On one hand sex is good because well, mostly all of us are here because of it. On the other anyone under 18 having sex with someone with too much of an "age gap" is somehow the most traumatic thing a person can go through even without any actual rape involved.

I love this paragraph, since it's exactly what I think about this topic. Like for some reason it seems sex is some magical thing that can have absurdly AWFUL consequences just because our brain has a stupid ass button that activates when it detects sex. No matter if that has actually had no impact whatsoever in one's physical health or long term effects of any kind or even if one enjoyed it, one will be traumatized by it's own "magical" nature. It's fairly stupid tbh.

(For context, I'm just being critic with this idea, not that I actually believe sex works this way, I think it's pretty obvious by the way I talk but it could be misunderstood, so ig I'll make this disclaimer)