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We can't go banning things just because they can, potentially, be used for "child fetishization".

Movies can be used for that purpose, and certainly Hollywood knows that. Books. TV. Any form of media.

Not to mention, rape and torture "simulators" (do you by change mean media?) are integral to our understanding of those things. What if rape survivors could not speak it, for it is too shameful?

And, the elephant in the room, sex is alone on this pedestal. Sex, alone, is uniquely stigmatized to a degree that nothing even comes close. Violence, no matter how gruesome and vile, does not reach even 1/1000th the scorn of even modest sex.

This is a purity game, plain and simple. The shame around sex and the extreme desire to control it comes from the patriarchy and religious ideals. These should not be humored.



> Violence, no matter how gruesome and vile, does not reach even 1/1000th the scorn of even modest sex.

Ehh in the US yes. In most of Europe not so much (the UK and maybe Hungary as the most notable exceptions)




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