Thursday, June 20, 2013

I'm Not Going To Draw Anyone A Roadmap To The Pedophile Porn

When I wrote the post about what are obviously photographs and film clips of children being raped by adult men available on one of the biggest and most profitable - and therefore most respected - social media venues, the question of how easy I was going to make it for a reader to find that was inescapable.  Providing links would make me not much better than Tumblr, so would providing names of websites and dates when the images were posted.  So those are things I wouldn't do.  Anyone who has an interest in exposing and suppressing it, getting Tumblr to exercise sufficient control of its property to not be in the business of distributing those images can find it easily.   I originally went looking for clear examples of exploitation of adults, for pornography that advertised itself as being without condoms, depictions of rape, of sadism, of intentional domination and degradation, of misogynistic and gay hating content - it's remarkably there in gay porn of that kind, not to mention ubiquitous in straight porn - and came across those images mixed in with that.   Most of what I saw was on the disturbingly incest-themed  sites, those which sell images themed on "daddies" having sex with "sons", where those images are, unsurprisingly, found among those which convincingly do feature "models" who are believably over the age of 18.  Some customers as well as peddlers want the real and not merely simulated thing, eventually.   I would guess that the child prostitution industry is more than willing to go into that as a side line, not to mention "amateurs".

I have been at this long enough so I've heard every venue of denial by those who have more regard for the bromides of the free speech industry than they do the welfare of children raped and used and destroyed by the porn industry, not to mention adults who are coerced into being exposed to sexual violence and life threatening sex with men who have had many paid and unprotected sexual encounters with those within the porn industry.  I've heard every single smug, self-satisfied, even invertedly self-righteous declaration of the free speech absolutists recited to the benefit of the tranquility of those who are in no danger of being used and destroyed in such a manner and whose loved ones have little chance of being so used.  It's so easy to declare your fealty to the Bill of Rights when it costs someone else.  Such free speech absolutists are as responsible for that destruction of human beings as a mob lawyer who gets off serial killers to kill again are.  I have nothing but contempt for them.

We aren't talking about some dirty book made of nothing but ink on paper, we're talking about an industry that destroys real people, children, women, gay men and straight men, animals, in some cases.  Pretending that is not as clear a distinction as possible is, in this case, as irresponsible a lie as those lies the enablers of slavery told, on which its perpetuation depended.  The law, judges, make less obvious, less consequential distinctions with total confidence every single day.  Only when the issues surrounding the rape, abuse and destruction of people, even obviously minor children, can be framed in "free speech" everyone involved plays stupid, often to their profit.  That free speech is used in this case as obviously in the exact same manner as free association was used to support racial discrimination and segregation is also obvious.  The Bill of Rights is a sword that can be wielded by those with money and power to oppress those without it when those kinds of lying fudges are allowed, even without bothering to wink.   One of the means that is done by these days is to cite the "agency" of those who are coerced if not enslaved into the "work" that damages and destroys them.   That coal miners who get black lung and die from gas buildup, explosions or cave-ins "choose" to work in the mines is no less an act of agency than an adult who is destroyed by the porn industry.  Only, over time and with sufficient propaganda, that was seen by liberals as not being the same kind of "agency" as is now asserted for the destructive use of even minor children by the porn industry.   When you mix sex and the dishonestly deployed language of freedom into the mix, pseudo-liberals go all stupid and hypocritical over it.

2 comments:

  1. Not to take away from your central concern, but you raise an interesting issue that I was thinking about earlier.

    A magazine (can't remember any details now) did a "fashion spread" showing models in poses of famous women (writers, mostly, IIRC) in their acts of suicide: Sylvia Plath kneeling before an open oven door, Virginia Woolf in water with stones in her hands, etc. You get the idea.

    It provoked such a backlash (reasonably), that the magazine website pulled the photos and apologized profusely for the bad taste.

    Except you can find those photos all over the web, and easily; mostly at places like "Jezebel" which complain of the idea and want you to see exactly why they are complaining. I mean, I'm no web guru, but I've seen the photo spread at three different locations, and found several links to them.

    Which made me reconsider posting anything at my blog about it, because without the photos, it's not quite as offensive (the models are posed to display their clothing to maximum effect, but posed as corpses, in some cases). But the photos are so offensive, no one should look at them.

    Hmmmmm......

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  2. It's one of the problems of dealing with this topic. Added to that, I didn't download any of the images because I wasn't sure that wouldn't have been illegal, I'm not clear on whether I broke the law by going back to take notes on them. I was prepared to be disgusted at what I saw but when I came across images of men raping boys and girls who looked about ten to me and drawings of men raping even younger children, on a major, trendy social media venue it shocked me and I'm not easily shocked. I can't believe Tumblr doesn't know it's used that way, there was one cheeky note that one "daddy's" site had been taken down but that he had a new one and was, presumably, putting more of that stuff up, I believe they might take some of it down. If they've got the money that the recent deal they were involved in indicates, they have it within their power to take it all down soon after it's posted. That would still leave up the porn that degrades and abuses and endangers adults but that's not actually illegal to distribute.

    I don't see how any gay person or those who claim to be opposed to the expression of hatred to gay men couldn't also be opposed to the most massive venue of that hatred, gay porn. It's like alleged feminists who don't oppose the hatred of women in straight porn, complete hypocrisy.

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