This related directly to your beliefs, pickle. You claim
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that possessing, buying or selling kiddie porn doesn't hurt anyone and shouldn't be against the law.
This was an instance of a book with at least soft-core kiddie porn with a forward by an outspoken advocate of legalizing pedophilia that was for sale on Amazon.
The book initially received some positive reviews on the both sides of the Atlantic, including from the Los Angeles Times, which called the photographs “beautiful... graceful, charming, and elegant.”
The pedophile advocate shares your beliefs that kiddie porn doesn't hurt anyone. Others disagree. Amazon had no issue selling it until others who disagreed complained. Perhaps they didn't want the customer backlash and bad publicity... or perhaps they didn't want to deal with any potential legal ramifications.
Those are all political issues.
Aside from the nude child photos, the German edition contains a foreword by disgraced psychologist Helmut Kentler, whose name was at the center of a child abuse scandal that Berlin is still reeling from.
Kentler was an open advocate of pedophilia, and spent much of his career arguing for the normalization of sex between adults and children, claiming it could have a “very positive effect on a boy’s personality development.”
In the introduction, Kentler wrote that “if such relationships are not discriminated against by the environment, then the more the older person feels responsible for the younger one, the more likely they are to have positive consequences for personal development.” Back in 2014, the text by Kentler was described by German reporter Stephan Hebel as an “open call for pedophilia.”
The same psychologist, who argued against people alerting law enforcement if they become aware of children involved in involuntary sexual contact with adults, has now been revealed to have run an “experimental program” in Berlin to place foster children into the care of known pedophiles. The city authorities supported the scheme throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
If Kentler's views are correct, that pedophilia doesn't necessarily harm children, and can in fact be good for them, do you think "intergenerational love" should be legal along with kiddie porn?