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When you're being accused of distributing child pornography, I think this transcends the "there's no such thing as bad publicity" adage...

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I can see why you'd like to think that, but I'm not seeing anyone saying "and now I'm going to boycott pornhub", so my guess is it doesn't.

It would be interesting to know how many of these vehement anti-child-pornography activists people are secretly pedophiles themselves, just like it was shown to be true for homophobes.

Posing as an "anti-pedophile" would be a good way for a pedophile to deflect attention away from themselves, or as a way for them to project the negative feelings they receive outwards.

There have been cases where child rights advocates have been arrested for multiple counts of child rape. I don't think every activist is one, or even most. They probably genuinely feel for the victims, and their suffering.

This is Jung's "shadow". We despise that which we're afraid to acknowledge in ourselves.

I think there is much more hatred for "child" pornography because it is completely natural for humans to be attracted to post-pubescent humans, because biology. But they are also classified as "children" arbitrarily and this "wisdom" is widely accepted and hence the natural attraction shadowed. It is then projected on to celebrities or criminals when they are caught.

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