You might be surprised, just comments here and there and freepmails saying its not such a bad thing or that 13 year olds aren’t kids and are mature enough to decide.... libertarian thinking I guess.
I count myself as lucky that I have never seen that sort of argument. I really don’t know how I would respond to that.
First, the issue of punishment. If the law on the books for possession of kiddie porn is ten years' jail time, then if the prisoner completes his ten years, he has served his time and is entitled to be released. I have a major problem with additional, unofficial confinement based on psychological evaluations or anything else other than recidivism. Want 'em to do life without parole?? Then the American way is to change the law.
Second, my definition of child pornography is material which depicts the sexual exploitation of actual human beings below the age of consent. A novel that describes sex with children, or artwork portraying what is purported to be sex with children, are distasteful in the extreme, but if no actual child was involved, it's not child pornography.