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Originally Posted by GoNative
My main issue Nyororin is that this genre is there as pornography. Sure any pervert can go the beach in summer and get his rocks off staring at kids in swimwear but to actually make a commercial industry out of it is in my opinion crossing the line. We shouldn't be using our children as sexual objects. There is harm in that as far as I'm concerned.
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I don`t see it as much different than women being seen as sexual objects.
I don`t like pornography. I find it generally distasteful that anyone is being seen or used as something sexual. But there is little difference to me whether the non-pornographic model is 20 or 10.
As long as there is a market selling these things, there is less of an incentive for children to be forced into it and directly harmed. There is less incentive to covertly photograph children without permission. There is less incentive for someone to actually sit around at the beach ogling the kids (where even if he doesn`t actually act on it, someone could stumble on him and be traumatized.)
With most of the child models, there is a strong culture of protectiveness around them. It is a weird world, but one that involves a lot of protectiveness rather than overt lust. The guys who obsess over these girls tend to want to be some sort of protective entity to them and to raise them to the beautiful (and sexual) woman their childhood appearance suggests. The guys tend to dish out cash more than anything to be an early sponsor for a girl they see having the potential to be an idol - it`s a huge status symbol in those circles to have been one of the sponsors for a popular idol from the very start... You will often hear them speaking of these girls with an almost father/brother-like pride at their success.
It really is a different world than one of actual pornography.