I have defended child pornography in class on the following grounds: if kids can get permission from their parents to engage in other activities for money, why not let parents attest to the emotion maturity of their children so the children can perform sex for money in front of a camera. Surely some children have the maturity to make this decision freely (much as some are mature enough to commit adult crimes) and who is better to judge their maturity than their parents? I hope you can see the problem with this logic, namely, there are somethings that are wrong in and of themselves, and thus cannot be justly consented to (slavery is another example). But apparently depicting 12-year-olds getting raped is now "edgy" and "art." And the 12-year-old swears her sexuality was not exploited.
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