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John Grisham's twisted views

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Stressing · 16/10/2014 12:36

So fuming about John Grisham airing his twisted views on child porn. /www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/10624453/John-Grisham-child-porn-argument-wrong

Especially this part, whilst referring to his friend who had the book thrown at him apparently: "So he went there (to the site), downloaded some stuff - it was 16 year old girls who looked 30.

"He shouldn't have done it. It was stupid, but it wasn't 10-year-old boys."

WTF? So it's okay apparently to get pissed and wank off over images of young teenagers who may or may not be around the age of consent, so long as they look 30. And, more importantly, it's okay to do this so long as they are not male.

The fact that we live in a world where there is any kind of grey area surrounding child porn depresses me. How the male need to be sexually gratified is SOOOO important that it presides over the innocence and well-being of a child makes me utterly sick to my stomach.

JG has the arrogance and self importance to put the US justice system on trial due to his version of what he thinks is acceptable and not acceptable - of who is worthy of law enforcement based on age and gender.

You can bet your life that his mate didn't just view a site depicting consenting age females. He went there because he was drawn to the borderline element of the site, obviously, and probably went elsewhere - which is why he had the FBI knocking on his door.

But, according to JG, the fact he wasn't looking at boys means he wasn't really doing anything wrong.

It incenses me.

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BrightonB83 · 16/10/2014 21:42

I think that there is such a thing as child porn, people know exactly what is meant by the phrase even if it isn't very technical.

I don't agree that more jail is the answer.

CrotchMaven · 16/10/2014 21:39

Middle aged wealthy white male patriarchy

CrotchMaven · 16/10/2014 21:38

No such thing as child porn.

His comments are a perfect storm of middle aged white male patriarchy. His enemy couldn't have come up with better.

YonicScrewdriver · 16/10/2014 21:37

Thought you were off for the night, Brighton?

This report indicates that is partly because many viewers of child abuse images also practice abuse and in cases where a viewer is deemed to have a high chance of recidivism, harsh sentences may be used.

www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/news/congressional-testimony-and-reports/sex-offense-topics/199606-rtc-sex-crimes-against-children/199606_RtC_SCAC.pdf

scallopsrgreat · 16/10/2014 21:35

Yes Puffins so was I. It was vile.

scallopsrgreat · 16/10/2014 21:34

He doesn't have a point at all Brighton. The answer is to increase the sentences for abusing children not lower the sentences for viewing sexual abuse.

Sabrinnnnnnnna · 16/10/2014 21:30

That is a very good article puffins - there is no such thing as child porn. The correct term is images of child abuse, or indecent images of children.

They depict a real child being abused. The more men that search around the internet and drunkenly wank off to these pictures of children being abused, the more images are made, the more real children are abused.

PuffinsAreFicticious · 16/10/2014 21:25

Scallops, I was nearly sick when I read what he'd said, honestly, anyone who tries to justify what he's saying needs to go and give their heads a wobble.

BrightonB83 · 16/10/2014 21:21

When the sentences are harsher for viewing pictures than actually abusing a child - he has a point. The US put a lot of people in prison comparatively.

scallopsrgreat · 16/10/2014 21:17

Yes Puffins, that post is great. He such a fucking wankbadger. 'Friend' my arse.

PuffinsAreFicticious · 16/10/2014 21:00

This explains what I was trying to say much more clearly

PuffinsAreFicticious · 16/10/2014 20:42

JG has shown that he really shouldn't be allowed to speak without an interpreter handy.

Anyone who thinks that white collar crime or viewing images of child abuse (sorry, it's not child porn, it is always abuse) is victimless needs to be kept away from society for their own protection.