Also made a petition
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I just going to repeat what I said once here. That’s why there is almost no research on topics related to pedophilia, because if the results don’t create a negative image of pedophilia, the researchers’ careers will be at risk.
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Them; I might not like what you say, but I’ll defend to the death the right for you to say it.
Also them; Get these type of people fired! Silence them all! Waaah!
It’s just awful that people get rewarded for being hypocrites!
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Yes for some reason the right only defends freedom of speech when the person being canceled is a racists, sexists, homophobe or transphobe.
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People are saying that Allyn Walker advocates for the use of actual child pornography because he believes such materials will help reduce rates of offenses.
I haven’t had time to go through all of Walker’s writings yet, but I have a high suspicion that this is either a miscommunication or a flat-out lie, considering that CSAM cannot exist unless an actual child was abused or exploited sexually, on camera, in order for it to exist, and allowing such material to exist would contradict any CSA prevention motifs in play here.
@terminus @elliot have either of you had time to review Walker’s work? Can you possibly tell me what the reality of the situation here is?
If they are advocating for the dissemination of CSAM, then supporting Walker may be problematic.
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That claim is based on their PhD thesis. I’ll admit I haven’t had a chance to go through the entire thing, but I did a ctrl+f search for “child pornography” and out of 45 results, the closest they came to advocating for it was saying that some MAPs use it as a way to avoid offending. They later went on to say that one of the shortcomings of support for MAPs is that those who do view CSAM don’t have sufficient help to stop viewing it.
There was also a point where they referred to “engrossing and high-quality child pornography,” but they were quoting directly from another source so those aren’t Professor Walkers’ words.
They also don’t differentiate between actual CSAM and drawings (they refer to everything as “child pornography”) so that could also help explain some of their statements.
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We need to ensure that this point is made more clear.
I’ll defend Walker’s work, but on the condition that it does not support or condone the use of actual children in the creation of sexually-explicit or pornographic material.
This could be a problem. People only care about such things if real children are involved, and not differentiating between the two is EXTREMELY problematic.
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True, but I’m guessing it was just because there weren’t any widespread terms to make a distinction between the two at the time of writing (hence not using CSAM rather than child pornography)
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@terminus I think it’d be in the Prostasia Foundation’s best interest if a copy of Walker’s book “Long Dark Shadow” on-hand, if one hasn’t been acquired already.
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Dark-Shadow-Minor-Attracted-Pursuit/dp/0520306368
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I would like a clear definition of what child porn actually is. If a MAP views an image of a real child and is sexually aroused by it is it defacto child porn? What if I’m viewing ads for a clothing brand and I see a child modeling the outfits and I get aroused and start to masturbate? Is it wrong because a real child is involved even though it’s a mainstream ad that would exist whether or not I ever looked at it?
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It shouldn’t be so, but unfortunately that is the way that extremists are trying to define it. The Dost test is a legal test of CP in U.S. law that basically defines it in terms of whether it is something that could arouse a pedophile, instead of being something that harms a child. It’s an example of how so much child protection policy is really just anti-pedophilia policy. Same with the sex doll bans. You’re quite right, that just as a teleiophile can feel sexual attraction to a fully clothed adult, a MAP can feel attraction to a fully clothed child, and there’s nothing that society can (or should) do about it. People are just going to have to learn to sit with their queasy feelings about what goes on in other people’s heads.
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A lot of people would consider that “child porn” though. Im honestly surprised it hasn’t been taken down. A lot people who are currently attacking allyn walker were also demanding Netflix take down the movie “Cuties” claiming that it is “child porn.”
So if I’m going to have a discussion about child porn with someone I need a clear definition of what they mean otherwise we aren’t even arguing on the same page.
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I don’t discuss child “porn.” I find it an offensive as well as overly broad and useless term with too many different definitions and connotations. I discuss child sexual abuse/exploitation material, and pornographic art depicting fictional children.
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Dude, everything that you do in your imagination, which I personally include things you do alone that don’t affect anyone else, anyway, those kinda things, are neither bad nor good. They are just personal stuff that is nobody else business. The reason for that is, being bad or good is always about opinions. And personal stuff like that should be placed outside the realm of other people’s opinions.
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I think something should be said about how society can create harm by how they react to such depictions. Do you think the girls in cuties would be negatively effected as much if people congratulated the girls for their performance instead of being outraged and calling it disgusting child porn?
If you tell a girl “this is disgusting. This is wrong. This is exploitation!” Then they will internalize that and start to feel guilty and bad about it.
Imagine if you were raised in a vegan home and your parents told you that eating meat is wrong and eating meat is murder. You would probably feel a lot of guilt about eating a hamburger because you were told it was immoral so many times by your parents, whereas a child who was not raised to believe that will eat a mcdonalds happy meal everyday and not feel an ounce of guilt.
You can even see this unfold in real time. A muslim girl raised in a strict religious household will feel more guilt about dressing in a short skirt than a girl raised in a non-religious liberal household where women are not told what to wear.
I’m not trying to make “pro-contact” positions here by the way. I do realize that there is sexual exploitation that exists outside of social constructs. But to completely deny that social attitudes play any role in our perceptions of the sexual exploitation of minors would be intellectually dishonest at best and would show a lack of understanding about how social norms are created by society.
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The university caved
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Unfortunate but also unsurprising
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This is very upsetting to me personally, because I want to see more work by Walker.
I want to see more progress by people like Walker.
I just purchased a copy of their book and have been reading it. A great deal of it is just information that I already know, but what I didn’t was very encouraging.
I hope Walker is able to continue their research.
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