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From: Doc NP-f31
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Subject: What happens when the content goes away?
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:10:05 -0400
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Thank you all for your comments in the previous thread. This post also
went unnoticed in The Fort. Perhaps it will raise an eyebrow here...
I got a very impressive e-mail from a friend in the groups. He raised
some very valid points that have been on my mind. I asked if I might
share his thoughts with those here and he agreed. I will present his
thoughts and then add my own later.
Dear Doc,
In the list you provide for people, you bind an unenforceable
agreement that the reciever will not touch boys by accepting access to
the material in the groups. While I have ascribed to this doctrine
long before I knew of your existence, your statement reenforced the
concept within my moral framework. A lot of people would argue that
the aformentioned material in itself is extremely harmful to boys (as
is reflected in the law), but the arguments to support that case are
very dubious. Hhaving access to such materialcan make relationships
with young friends pressure free and peaceful. Of course, like any man
I have sexual desire, and like any BL I have desire specifically for
the boys I know, but knowing that I have an outlet for that desire
elsewhere has allowed me to explore and fulfill emotional and
intellectual aspects of our relationships without the constant looming
threat of emotional trauma and destruction. I know I am not alone in
this situation, but this is something that the authorities will never
seem to understand, that having freely available access to this
material helps prevent abuse. Whatever mental gymnastics law makers
use to condemn posession one fact remains undisputable, looking at a
picture is not the same as actual touching. The real potential harm
from one totally eclipses the metaphysical harm waves that come from
the other. But enough preaching to the choir.
This leads me to the current state of the groups. Fortunately, during
the last few years, retention has exploded to over a thousand days.
This means that material that at one time vanished within 3 months now
remains for years, and it means newcomers and old timers alike have
access to a much larger pool than ever before. And even though the
posters began to start using encryption, their passwords and keys were
freely propogated by generous people and accessible by any lurker
willing to put in the minimum amount of effort in discovery. It seems
to me that this era is coming to an end. For whatever reason, groups
of posters have closed up shop to outsiders and no longer find it
worthwile to share what they are posting. I cannot blame them for that
decision whatsoever, as posters risk great personal safety in order to
provide material, so any security measures they take are de facto very
reasonable and perhaps necessary.
My fear is that the push underground is going to not only increase the
danger to users but to the boys they are around as well. This
manifests itself in a couple of ways. One, this drying up of material
may push people to much more dangerous modes of transfer like p2p or
irc, which increases their likelihood of being caught and their and
their young friend's lives destroyed. Two, in desperation to gain
access to groups BL's will start self-producing material and trading
it. These are activities that I have never even considered
participating in, but I have evidence that this is
exactly the measures many take to fulfill their desires. None of these
circumstances are good. It results in more people in prison, more boys
abused, more lives destroyed.
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Your opinions are solicited,
Stay Safe,
Doc
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