I definitely think you are misinterpreting the community. It's not my favorite community on the site but it doesn't break any rules, everyone posted id 18+ and it a post is even remotely questionable it's removed.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You should add a rule against fake pedo porn.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Besides the gross factor, why? If it's preventing actual CSAM from being consumed, that's a good thing.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From a sex workers standpoint how fucked up is it to be told YOUR adult body is so obscene no one should ever desire to see it.

If all the pedos want to congregate I believe it just makes it easier to track those fuckers, otherwise I feel that particular space is uncomfortable and just avoid it but I think it's incredibly fucked up to tell any adult they aren't a sexual creature like everyone else and that they should be ashamed.

I do hope it is monitored closely though, slippery slope as it is

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I mean, I get people's disgust with it. It's not just small women, it's small women whose hair, make-up, and clothing is chosen with the purpose of making them look like children. I personally find the content gross, so I don't consume it.

But the people making it are consenting adults, and that's all that should matter to the decision of whether it's banned or not.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Making porn doesn't reduce demand for porn, it increases it. The community will likely make more pedophiles

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I bet you also think violent video games make people violent.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Grail is a known contrarian, that is their whole shtick: being strange and contrarian.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 9 hours ago

By this point I feel like I kinda am too, so this should be interesting.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 0 points 10 hours ago

Studies show playing video games raises short term aggression. But we have no hard data on the long term causative relationship between video games and violence, because it's very difficult to cause patients to play video games for many years. I sure hope people are learning some of their moral values around violence from video games. I hope Wolfenstein makes people more violent towards neo-Nazis. I hope Horizon makes people more violent towards tech CEOs. I hope Subnautica makes people want to protect nature.

Now I'm going to cite Humm et al., (2020)'s insights into the psychology of first-time CSAM offenders. Most first-time CSAM offenders are unaware that what they're doing is a crime, and they have doubts about the harmfulness of what they're doing. In other words, they're exactly the kind of people who tend to use the fauxbait community, and in fact they have a lot in common with people in this thread such as yourself.

Nonetheless, as a factor motivating onset, such exposure, or ‘opportunity’, is thought to have a ‘greater impact’ on an individual’s likelihood of viewing CEM than pathological motivations or drivers such as overpowering sexual urges

In other words, if you see this kind of porn by accident and you don't think it's that bad, you're more likely to go on to become an online-only child sex offender.