[robertpaulsen]

The same way that societal acceptance of Playboy led to the increased production and availability of extreme hardcore porn. Call it desensitization. Call it defining deviancy down.

If and when The Gay Love Tunnel reaches the shelves previously occupied by Playboy, I am expecting to see a increase in the production and availability of kiddie porn. And, as I said twice before, I expect it to start with 16 and 17-year-olds (not really kiddie porn, right?).

Hey, that's my opinion based on past history. You disagree and say it won't happen. Actually, I suppose you have to believe that, don't you?

[Long Cut]

Since Playboy has existed since the early '50s (and was preceeded by such "softer" stuff as Esquire), and no such thing as you fear has occurred even as society has gotten more frank with itself regarding sex, we can place that fear in the same trasheap as that one about CCW laws leading to "blood running in the streets".

"Hey, that's my opinion based on past history."

No, it's a fear based on a misreading of that history. But nice try selling it.