Is sexual perversion a thing?

"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.

♥ 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.