Downloading porn is making it

[TehUser]

If you lack enough morals and conscience to download and watch child pornograhy, you might as well go to jail for creating it. Scum.

Thanks for that totally irrational comment.  It's people like you that make these forums so much better with your relentless emotional appeals and lack of logic.  I'd give you a medal if I had one to give.

[quasi-modo]

but to some extent he is right. It is not normal to get off to the stuff and something needs to happen to the people who do it besids a slap on the wrist IMHO. As for the law in question, I do not agree that they should be tried for producing it (as i've said, I was not argueing for this law in particular), but I definately wouldn't be against an ammendment to possession laws in affect currently that would impose some sourt of manditory counseling on top of any fines and or prison time. You don't want the person to go out and act apon his fantasies once he is out of prison.

[MyndFyre]

It is not normal to get off to the stuff

[devil's-advocate]
What about people who are 12 or 13?  Sure, a college girl is damn fine, but I remember the girls in high school looking a LOT better than they do now.  I'm pretty sure it's not because the overall population has gotten uglier.  What if a 12- or 13-year-old downloads child pornography?
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[quasi-modo]

we can't very well try them as adults though, now can we? If a 12 year old looks at pictures of another 12 year old I would assume it would be treated as two 12 year olds having consentual sex (though I assume they would still look for the source of the materials). But on the other hand if an 18 year old were to look at a 15 year old, in the state of florida, he would probably get in trouble because the consentual age in florida is 16 (I believe anyone up to 22 can have sex with a concentual partner as young as 16, but past 22 the parnet must be 18).

But still, we are looking at it always on a case by case basis with a judge and jury. I don't think the 12 or 18 year old would do time (but if the 18 year old had a lot of pictures of 5 year olds that would be a bit different).