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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@snark.imsi.com> "Jim Sewell" says:
Unfortunately, newsgroups like alt.sex.bestiality and erotica picture groups make this point hard to defend against. Alt.sex.bestiality is full of jokes about bestiality, not real suggestions about it. There are no newsgroups devoted to pedophillia, nor are pedophiles a visible presense in the erotic pictures newsgroups.
I used to systematically read the pictures groups, including alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.children, and never once was an actual picture of a child posted. In fact, there was only one picture in
Can't you hear "them" saying, "Well, those heathen pagan computer worshiping nerds are looking at pictures of women defiling themselves with carnal relations with animals. Can't you just imagine what they do in private with their little computer thingeys." It, in a typical person's mind, is a trivial line between child porn and animal porn. To be identified as part of a group of people that routinely pass pictures of women having sex with animals makes us so much more easily identified as part of a group of people that secretly pass kiddie porn... why else would we be so involved in encryption... just look what we send back and forth in public! Guilt by association is unfair, but very prevalent especially with the news media's influence. Jim -- Tantalus Inc. Jim Sewell Amateur Radio: KD4CKQ P.O. Box 2310 Programmer Internet: jims@mpgn.com Key West, FL 33045 C-Unix-PC Compu$erve: 71061,1027 (305)293-8100 PGP via email on request. 1K-bit Fingerprint: 8E 14 68 90 37 87 EF B3 C4 CF CD 9A 3E F9 4A 73