There’s an interesting discussion to be had around stuff like the fauxbait community. But if you approach it in such bad faith as screaming “CP!! CP!!!” it just comes across as ragebaiting to try to invoke the same sort of “but think of the children!” misdirection that we’ve seen so much of in governments recently.
Look, that sort of content isn’t to my taste but I will defend its right to exist. It’s legal. The people posted there are adults. There has always been a thriving category of “barely legal” content - look at reddit’s “legalteens” or pornhub’s constant barrage of “18 year old does this” and “barely legal loses V” etc. Same product, different name. It sounds like the only objection is the relabelling of 18 year olds as “fauxbait” instead of “legal teen”, which I agree is distasteful but that doesn’t make it CP. You can look elsewhere if it’s not to your taste but you can’t deny that it’s legal content.
I agree with the others about needing a clear distinction between what is legal and what isn’t, and we can debate all day about whether 18 is the correct line to draw, but for now you can’t call posting 18 year olds and 21 year olds “child porn” just because they have small bodies or are close-ish to the legal boundary. That is approaching the discussion in bad faith.
There’s an interesting discussion to be had around stuff like the fauxbait community. But if you approach it in such bad faith as screaming “CP!! CP!!!” it just comes across as ragebaiting to try to invoke the same sort of “but think of the children!” misdirection that we’ve seen so much of in governments recently.
Look, that sort of content isn’t to my taste but I will defend its right to exist. It’s legal. The people posted there are adults. There has always been a thriving category of “barely legal” content - look at reddit’s “legalteens” or pornhub’s constant barrage of “18 year old does this” and “barely legal loses V” etc. Same product, different name. It sounds like the only objection is the relabelling of 18 year olds as “fauxbait” instead of “legal teen”, which I agree is distasteful but that doesn’t make it CP. You can look elsewhere if it’s not to your taste but you can’t deny that it’s legal content.
I agree with the others about needing a clear distinction between what is legal and what isn’t, and we can debate all day about whether 18 is the correct line to draw, but for now you can’t call posting 18 year olds and 21 year olds “child porn” just because they have small bodies or are close-ish to the legal boundary. That is approaching the discussion in bad faith.