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My point was a subtle one. He deserves whatever he gets. He is as guilty for wanting and using the pornography as those who manufacture it. Pornography will always be around. But in this age of cyberspace, perverts have a better chance of leading double lives and to go undetected and so do the manufacturers. What is the effect of unrestricted pornography that is easily accessible? Sometime it leads to sex crimes beyond the ones inherent in the manufacture, and some times it leads to guy like this who is a time bomb that did not go off. But since such hardcore pornography has never been so easily accessible over a long period of time we do not know what all the effects will be. But my guess is that a lot more people will be leading double lives, and the fact that this guy knew how wrong what he was doing was, that he went to the lengths of using his ten year old's computer to hide his addiction from the rest of the family speaks volumes. Pornography has consequences. Pornography in an online age has such larger consequences that they seem to be out of the grasp of those whose responsibility it is to oversee such things. If the pornography police had as much zeal as the smoking police, then maybe we could not literally breath as easily, but children might be at a lot less risks to the dangers of filthy perverts. You read me wrong if you think that I was cutting the user some slack. I have never smoked a day in my life but the air pollution of a smoke filled room bothers me very little compared to the moral pollution of the internet by pernicious and clearly illegal pornography. I know of many who were addicted to tobacco and kicked it. I know of no one who was addicted to pornography and kicked it. Of course, the pornography addicts that I have known were so far in the closet as evidently this guy was, that they have not yet been outed. This level of pornography seems much more dangerous than tobacco, but what do I know, I am just blogger, blogging off a little steam.