A Debate As Old As The Internet Itself

From my feature for the August issue of X Biz World Magazine:

Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media, is at the head of the parade where efforts to mingle kiddie porn with mainstream porn are concerned. Peters tells XBIZ that he believes there is “growing evidence that ‘adult’ pornography on the Internet is transforming essentially ‘normal adults’ into child sex predators.”

What begins as an interest in pornography that does not depict children, Peters fervently believes, “progresses to an interest in ‘teen porn’ and/or child porn, and culminates in a desire to have sex with children.”

First Amendment Attorney Joe Obenberger scoffs at the notion that teen-themed porn indoctrinates users into the dark side.

“If you had a nickel for every auto accident that happened because some guy was craning his neck to get a look at a 16-year-old girl in a tube top, you’d have a stack of nickels that would go from the Empire State Building to the Golden Gate Bridge,” he tells XBIZ.

Those who make the leap from mainstream-produced 18-year-old flesh epics to the dark side of child pornography, Obenberger believes, are freakish anomalies and not the norm.

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