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> The justification for banning possession of child pornography was that you could draw a straight line from the images to an act of exploitation

This was always transparently moronic. It has never been illegal to possess a picture of a murder, no matter how brutal.

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However, I take it almost no murders have ever been committed for the purpose of distributing pictures of them.

But I take it that most statutory rape happens less for economic reasons than most authorities/politicians would like us to believe. Most people that abuse/rape children do so because it has happened to them, not because they find it to be a way to make quick money.

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