"We're not so different, you and me
'Cause we both share our share of obscenities.
And everybody's got some freaky tendencies,
Hidden or admitted, 'cause we all got needs.
And I make no apology."
"Phonography" - Britney Spears
The Internet is a beautiful place. Everything one has to keep in secret in the outside world is possibly exposable without major consequences on the Net, giving every human a chance to express the rarest of their feelings, making a place for every thought, strange or not, to bloom up and find others who share it, creating communities, friendships, relationships, marriages, around those thoughts.
However, the diversity of these
thoughts troubles some. It's easy to find certain parts of the
Internet easily marked as "sick," "ill" or
"disgusting." I'm talking about every kind of thought, and
every kind of content one can find in and out of the Internet comes
from thoughts. Don't get me wrong, not every action is acceptable,
but the existence and accessibility of every kind of content is.
One of the most common responses I get
when speaking out about this is the case for pedophilia. Must there
be content (assuming: sexual content) for pedophiles out there? Yes,
absolutely. For the protection of children, people who can't help
feeling sexual attraction to them must have a way to relieve sexually
without involving a real child, that should be the logical thought of
every person who wants to keep child molesting from happening. If,
then, accessing that kind of content is criminalized, the debate
regarding unavoidable sexual preference as a crime must be taken into
account: should people who prefer having sexual interaction with
people from their same sex be treated as criminals for having sexual
likes they can't avoid?
The point is using wit. One does
not need to involve an existing entity with certain characteristics
in any way to satisfy a fetish, philia or paraphilia regarding those
characteristics. That's been proven. There are tons of content of the
kind featuring fictional characters and objects that can be emulated
with unthinkable realism and fidelity. As referring to the previous
example, I am not attracted to people under my age; contrarily,
people I'm attracted to easily double my age as the x-year-old
person I am while I write this, so it is hard for me to refer to
examples of it to prove my last point, but I can think of uncountable
examples of content of the kind suitable for people with likes like
mine without involving any existing, disconforming or not, entity.
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| ♥ See what I mean? ♥ [Art by Grisser; safe version] |
After I've made this clear, there's a
question I want to throw to anyone reading this. Can sexual likes, or
any kind of individual interest, be harmful? Can sexuality be a form
of perversion? Why? My answer is no, they can't. It can't. Sexuality
itself, with our sexual likes, fetishes, philias, is the best thing
we have. It can make us enjoy ourselves in a way nothing else can.
And if someone [over/at the age of consent and in their full capacity
of reason and agreement, by the way] agrees, making it real for one
another is simply beautiful. People can say it's gross, pitiful,
disgusting, but, what do those people have to do with it? Each and
every single human being must be able to enjoy their sex, regardless
of what that implies.
