Ban Child Avatars Being Used for Sexual Purposes

SO technically, it's fantasizing about an adult pretending to be a child, not fantasizing about a child.

If you're going to make a blanket statement like "Being a furry leads to bestiality" or something, then I would expect more research than an HBO show.

Crimes require, or at least should require, a victim. It is an important line and not one I would like people to so casually give up; even to protect children. It is the way we punish people for what they do and not what they think.

It is more important to guarantee people are free to think than to guarantee they are free from having been molested.

Still, the only sexual fantasy we're discussing with any real attention involves an adult roleplaying a child and an adult roleplaying either another child or an adult.

SO technically, it's fantasizing about an adult pretending to be a child, not fantasizing about a child.

So, not pedophilia.

If you're going to make a blanket statement like "Being a furry leads to bestiality" or something, then I would expect more research than an HBO show.

What makes you think they are not a minor? There have always been minors on the grid, with several people of note just turning 18 within the past few months after the teengrid and were never forced over there. There are children on the grid. Are they playing with child avies? We can't be sure, but it is not possible that everyone on the main grid is over 18, it has never been the case in the history of the grid.

The only people responsible are their parents. I'm a parent myself and a damn good one, and will learn enough about what my son does that I can ensure his mental health. It's not our fault if most parents can't be arsed to do that.

If ya wear a deer costume where people are hunting, you're gonna get shot. If you can't keep your kids out of the costume, YOU should be shot. same principle.

Is Vanity Fair a better source?

I can tell you that in SL, and even other virtual venues, I have participated sexually in things that would disgust me to even consider IRL. I have no desire whatsoever to express them IRL.

But hell, why have morals in SL?

For someone so concerned about pedophilia, why is a link to someone on this forum who claimed to be a pedophile so difficult to extract?

So, if your parents don't care about you to protect you, it is ok for you to be abused. Nice.

Gee... I don't know... I mean... all pedophiles fess up freely to the charge, right?

ped·o·phil·i·a (pd-fl-, pd-)
n.
The act or fantasy on the part of an adult of engaging in sexual activity with a child or children.

(The Free Dictionary)

The American Psychiatric Association defines Pedophilia:

A pedophile is a person who over at least a 6 month period has recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (age 13 years or younger).


Definition

Pedophilia is a paraphilia that involves an abnormal interest in children. A paraphilia is a disorder that is characterized by recurrent intense sexual urges and sexually arousing fantasies generally involving: nonhuman objects; the suffering or humiliation of oneself or one's partner (not merely simulated); or animals, children, or other nonconsenting persons. Pedophilia is also a psychosexual disorder in which the fantasy or actual act of engaging in sexual activity with prepubertal children is the preferred or exclusive means of achieving sexual excitement and gratification. It may be directed toward children of the same sex or children of the other sex. Some pedophiles are attracted to both boys and girls. Some are attracted only to children, while others are attracted to adults as well as to children.

Pedophilia is defined by mental health professionals as a mental disorder, but the American legal system defines acting on a pedophilic urge as a criminal act.
(Minddisorder.com)

Definition of Pedophilia

Pedophilia: People with pedophilia have fantasies, urges or behaviors that involve illegal sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger).

(Medterms.com)

So by definition, anyone fantasizing about sex with a person 13 or under (child avatars) is a pedophile.

Pretend you are something else but the definitions are the same no matter where you look... Calling it "age play" or not, if it includes sexual fantasy and a child, it is pedophilia.

My guess is you were fooling around, not obsessing with the behavior.

I thought she said being a fury leads to boning people in animal costumes as seen on HBO.

No. Sensationalism is sensationalism, no matter where it appears. Consenting adults engage in all kinds of rolepay in SL and in RL. Do you assume that all people who engage in infantilism in RL want to have sex with infants? Or that couples who engage in rape fantasies will actually rape someone? I could come up with dozens of other examples but I'll spare you. People roleplay specifically for the opportunity to act out fantasies that they would never actually do in real life. That's the whole point. It matters not if you find those fantasies tasteless, frightening, or bizarre. Undoubtedly there are people who can't separate fantasy from reality but you can't define the majority by the fringes, nor curtail people's freedom based on the worst case scenario.

Actually, I think that people who do ageplay in RL are probably less likely to be pedophiles than those doing it in SL... the reason being the visual nature of SL and RL... in RL, the person having sex with an adult dressed and acting as a child just looks like an adult behaving like a freak... but in SL, the person pretending to be a child, looks just like a child so in watching an adult avatar anally rape a little boy avatar is more akin to true child rape.

I think RL ageplay is completely different than SL ageplay for that reason... put a 45 year old man in a diaper and he's a 45 year old man in a diaper no matter how you look at it.