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[–]Nemesis 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Porn isn't a substitute for therapy or psychological intervention. If someone fantasizes about rape or pedophilia, the answer isn't to give them the means to live out their fantasy in private. Eventually the fantasy loses novelty and can no longer substitute for the real thing. The answer is to intervene, help them understand why they experience this compulsion, and give them strategies to control and avoid impulses. Science has yet to identify a pedo or rapist gene, it's clearly nurture/psychological in origin, therefore treatment should be a priority, not just having society throwing up their collective hands and saying "haha they're just born this way, we just need to give them enough porn to satisfy their immutable sexual identity".