Interesting - Necrobabes now has this as disclaimer
fuschia, 03 Sep 2005 17:05:09
These sites deal with very politically incorrect fantasies. If you do not
have these sorts of fantasies, you will likely find them shocking, if not
offensive -- our sites are not for you, please go away.
Among those who are offended, there are those who would wish us censored.
Their assertion is that these web sites inflame the lusts of the viewers,
'normalize' the idea of violence, and thereby drive the viewer to commit acts of
violence mimicking what they view on these sites. It is the same sort of
theory that drives the forces of censorship everywhere, for all manner of things
that people would censor. Yet there is no evidence for such a link between
those who commit acts of rape and violence and their consumption of pornography
other than the fact that many people who commit acts of violence also consume
pornography. Many dentists also consume pornography. Does pornography also
lead to dentistry? If the logic applies to one, the same logic must apply to
the other. The vast preponderance of people who consume pornography never
commit any crime at all.
The material we produce is fanciful, even cartoonish in many regards; there
is nothing realistic about it. Our viewers know this. Far from normalizing
violence, it relegates it squarely into the realm of fantasy.
Time and time again we harp to our members that as long as you don't harm
anyone, as long as you keep things safely in the realm of fantasy, that you use
the fiction and imagery found on these sites as a mere virutal realization
of a fantasy, you are fine. Harm no one, keep it in fantasy, and you are okay,
you are a decent human being.
Unfortunately, there are people in this world, in all walks of life, who
value their own pleasure more than they value the well being of other people.
Such monstrous individuals will do monstrous things and so, thankfully, are an
infinitesimal minority within any gathering of human beings. A person who
has these violent fantasies, however, and yet does NOT value their own pleasure
more than the life and well being of other people, such a person will NOT
harm another person. It is not the absence or presence of such fantasies that
drives people to acts of violence or not, it is the absence or presence of a
conscience.
In any community of thousands, there are going to be those sorts of people
who lack a conscience. It is unfortunate that the actions of those few among
us who lack conscience would cause the censors to wish us all harm. I would
however ask those who would be tempted to censor to please stop for a moment
and think again.
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