Anonymous asked: Saying 'abusers use a lot of tools so we might as well allow pedophilia porn in fanfiction' is like saying 'people will always steal stuff, we migh as well make theft legal'. I'm not saying you're wrong on this issue, but your rhetorical means are really dishonest.
That’s… really not what I’m saying. My argument is that, just as existence of shiny valuables doesn’t magically turn someone into a thief, the existence of fanworks featuring child abuse doesn’t magically turn people into abusers, either. I’m not saying, “oh well, crimes happen so morality is relative” - I’m saying that the vast majority of pearl-clutching about the content of fanworks fundamentally misunderstands how human sexuality works, not because I’m meh about paedophilia or rape or other dark themes IRL, but because sexual fantasies do not always overlap perfectly or even at all with actual sexual preferences.
This is a basic truth of human sexuality, and it’s something that a lot of people cannot and will not get their heads around, even though it’s integral to the discussion. The disconnect between our sexual fantasies and sexual preferences is why, to pick just a few examples, there are ace folks who write and read porn, but don’t want to have sex themselves; why there are straight women who write and read gay porn, but don’t actually want to be gay or a man themselves; and, yes, why there are people of all genders, ages and sexualities who read or write about various forms of abuse without wanting to be abused or condoning abuse themselves. I understand why a lot of people are repulsed by particular types of content, but that doesn’t give them the right to police how and why other people choose to engage with it, and especially not when they’re doing so from a place of ignorance.
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