That sales of both *are* restricted actually was my point! So yes, I think we definitely are agreeing on most of this! :)
Knife sales are indeed currently restricted to a particular age group. It is agreed that they are not appropriate for children, but nobody is arguing that in order to prevent children from getting hold of knives we should stop making them entirely.
Sale of Porn is also restricted to a particular age group. The folks who make it agree that they don't want kids to get hold of it. Yet the answer being proposed by a fairly significant part of society (including the authors of both articles I linked to) is 'Therefore, don't make any porn at all, ever' - or to restrict its content to only what is deemed appropriately 'educational'. That's like only being allowed to manufacture or own butter knives!
The copyright angle was my own suggestion, and I wondered whether anyone had any better ideas. So far, despite a few folks telling me that one is bad, I've got nuthin'! You make a very fair point about parental responsibility though, too.
Knowing a number of folks who actually make porn I'm going to have to disagree with you on the 'specious' bit, though. Full length edits turn up on file sharing sites all of the time, as well as free samples that are not behind a 'proof of age wall' and it's a bane of their existence. And sites like xhamster, motherless and heavyr, (just to run a few off the top of my head) intended for 'user-created' videos require no login, no credit card, and usually not even an 'I am of legal age' click-through to view [almost always copyright infringing] material that has occasionally managed to shock even me.
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Date: 2015-04-10 10:44 am (UTC)Knife sales are indeed currently restricted to a particular age group. It is agreed that they are not appropriate for children, but nobody is arguing that in order to prevent children from getting hold of knives we should stop making them entirely.
Sale of Porn is also restricted to a particular age group. The folks who make it agree that they don't want kids to get hold of it. Yet the answer being proposed by a fairly significant part of society (including the authors of both articles I linked to) is 'Therefore, don't make any porn at all, ever' - or to restrict its content to only what is deemed appropriately 'educational'. That's like only being allowed to manufacture or own butter knives!
The copyright angle was my own suggestion, and I wondered whether anyone had any better ideas. So far, despite a few folks telling me that one is bad, I've got nuthin'! You make a very fair point about parental responsibility though, too.
Knowing a number of folks who actually make porn I'm going to have to disagree with you on the 'specious' bit, though. Full length edits turn up on file sharing sites all of the time, as well as free samples that are not behind a 'proof of age wall' and it's a bane of their existence. And sites like xhamster, motherless and heavyr, (just to run a few off the top of my head) intended for 'user-created' videos require no login, no credit card, and usually not even an 'I am of legal age' click-through to view [almost always copyright infringing] material that has occasionally managed to shock even me.