Ok. You were talking about cases of people with impulse control issues caused by damage to the prefrontal lobe. Now you're going off about the diversity of developmental issues caused by child abuse. Are you just regurgitating what you learned in order to establish yourself as an authority?.
Dude...I don't have to be an "authority" to simply know more about a subject than you do because I have an interest in it, and have actually studied it for years, both in and outside of college. But, I suppose I did forget to mention that childhood abuse/trauma directly affects brain development in children, particularly in the prefrontal lobe. Does that make more sense to you now? And yes, I meant non-neurotypical. It is after 3 am where I am.
If I have any hostility in my tone (I certainly don't FEEL "hostile", but okay), it's probably because--as I have already mentioned--I have seen all of this before. And I also know the statistics of violent crime, and that they have dropped considerably alongside our movies and videogames becoming more graphic, and pornography being more easily accessed. Rape, for example, has decreased by over 80% since 1979, in spite of the increased willingness of victims and others in reporting it. Now, if pornography escalated someone's desire to rape, you'd think it would be the other way around, yes? You'd think films like "I Spit on Your Grave" and "Last House on the Left" would be banned and forgotten--not remade decades later.
When it comes to grooming, it's about TRUST. Candy, an interest in model airplanes--literally anything can be used as a tool to groom children. Fan art and fanfiction is dominated by teenage girls and young women: They are the majority of the people producing and consuming fan content, including NSFW. Besides that, children are most at threat from someone close to their family, NOT some stranger online (the worst part is that, statistically, it's their own mothers that are the biggest offenders).
And buddy, are you honestly calling ANYWHERE on the internet a "safe space"? Are you fucking serious right now? If your main concern about the internet is drawings of cartoon characters, you are either really, REALLY fucking sheltered, or don't truly give a fuck about children, because there is WAY worse out there that is just as easy--if not moreso--to access.
Youtube has footage of live suicides (Budd Dwyer), car accident footage (every Red Asphault car safety video), footage of animal slaughter, autopsy footage.... Pornhub and Redtube? Anyone can access those without payment or age verification. Same with places like Bestgore. And have we forgotten the days of "shock sites", where people tricked their friends into seeing things like "goatse" and "tubgirl"? If you weren't aware, tumblr has ALWAYS allowed adult content, as long as it wasn't pornographic video (a lot of video takes up more space, making the site more expensive to host). They have no qualms with nudity or hardcore images--they just don't want to be used as hosting for pay sites.
And anyway, the internet is not a fucking babysitter. Anyone concerned with what their child might see should--at the very least--have parental filters enabled. If you wouldn't trust them walking around downtown on their own, they shouldn't be online on their own. That is 100% on the parents, and no one else. And tumblr's minimum age is 13, which is definitely NOT a "child". In fact, that's past that window of brain development I mentioned before, meaning that what they see as a teen has a lot less impact and influence than anything they'd see as small child. Not to mention that tumblr automatically had Safe Mode enabled for anyone under 18, NSFW blogs don't show up in searches, etc. And if we gon' talk Google, it tailors searches to your search habits, so unless someone's already been looking up suspect shit on that computer, they certainly aren't going to be inundated with piles of porn.
Like, idk how your ass is even on KF with that moral puritan bullshit attitude. You're on a much-hated forum commonly believed to be a den of bullies and trolls, yet coming at me sounding like some crusty ex-soccer mom WASP bitch that wants to talk to my manager. Get the fuck outta here with that.
I don’t get why you’re so mad about this.
My point was that it normalizes the idea of pedophilia to kids.
"Kids" who shouldn't be on the internet unsupervised or without filters in the first place, and who sure as fuck wouldn't be on tumblr, as the age limit there is 13, which is past the bulk of brain development, making them far less likely to be impacted by anything they see online.
Meanwhile, "Lolita" is considered a piece of "classic literature" (there've even been two different film adaptations), yet pedophilia is still so hated in our culture that pedos are usually killed when sent to prison, because even rapists, murderers, and drug dealers won't tolerate them. Ain't nothing gonna "normalize" that--a fucking NOVEL that is STILL IN PRINT didn't "normalize" it, so what the fuck makes you think Stacy's fan art with 5 notes is gonna do that?
Stop comparing teenage girls making dirty doodles of their anime OTP to real children being physically abused, degraded, and exploited, because that's honestly fucking offensive.
I am so sorry for shitting up this thread with so much text, but it's like 4 a.m., I can't sleep for shit, it's really difficult for me to be concise with my words, and I am just so goddamn tired of the same "fiction causes ______" shit that I've put up with for DECADES. Let's please just focus on the real pieces of shit physically assaulting and exploiting flesh and blood children instead of trying to make this about CARTOON CHARACTERS.