There’s actually a movement trying to spearhead decriminalizing it.
Their logic is, by supplying such images and videos to pedophiles, they won’t “act out” on their urges.
Color me more than skeptical.
Exactly the opposite is true.
The more exposure to pornography, the more likely someone is to act out on their urges,
to “up the ante”.
The same way teaching sex to first graders has given us less child sex in our schools?
As I understand it, computer-generated child porn images are legal. No actual children were harmed.
With libertarianism, the argument is, “When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.”
That quote is from Mary J. Ruwart, PhD “(born October 16, 1949) is a research scientist and libertarian speaker, writer, and activist. She was a leading candidate for the 2008 Libertarian Party presidential nomination and is the author of the award-winning international bestseller Healing Our World.”
Ruwart was the Libertarian Party of Texas’s nominee for U.S. Senate in 2000. Ruwart has served on the Libertarian National Committee, and was a keynote speaker at the 2004 Libertarian National Convention. In 2002, libertarians launched an unsuccessful lobbying campaign to get Dr. Ruwart appointed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner. Additionally, Ruwart has served on the boards of the International Society for Individual Liberty, the Fully Informed Jury Association, and the Michigan chapter of the Heartland Institute. Ruwart is a longtime supporter of the Free State Project and officially endorsed it on May 17, 2008 while on-air on Free Talk Live.
Ruwart unsuccessfully ran for Texas Comptroller in 2010 against incumbent Republican Susan Combs.