Is Reddit a magnet for pedophiles?

Right now there seems to be little evidence in either direction. Of course people who like loli claim that it makes users less likely to offend, but I’ve yet to see any of them offer concrete proof of that hypothesis.

Bother, I totally forgot that if I put like 20 links, I’d hit moderation hell. Anyone know how to embed images? Wait no don’t answer that, then I’ll do it XD

Cassandra: Of course! I’m not going to argue that. You can avoid anyone you like for any reason or no reason.

…I kind of don’t want to get into this argument because I’m afraid it’s going to end up Ozy, Defender of Child Porn, and that has GOT to be bad for my rep.

I think that’s just the idea of things that are at a remove are things that you’re not personally responsible for, as outlined above. It’s a ridiculous and ethically untenable argument, obviously, but it’s one that people often make when talking about things that on some level they know that they should feel guilty about.

It is fairly hard to pin down that sort of thing, which is why I get annoyed when people claim that they know for sure that the existence of CP in drawn/animated form reduces the likelihood of people abusing children IRL. If you’re going to make that kind of claim you need actual evidence.

Is that mixed into the dough, or one as the dough and the other as a frosting?

I understood it to be honey flavor cupcakes with pb frosting, which is a good combo, and, as I noted before, especially good if you sprinkle the cakes with a little mead before frosting.

Yay for cooking derails! (Especially after this horrible week.)

Devonshire Cider Cake

1/4 cup caster sugar or brown sugar
4 oz (1/2 stick) of butter
2 eggs
1 cup self-raising flour (essentially flour with added baking powder)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 pint apple cider or hard apple cider

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an eight inch round cake pan. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale in color. Stir in the eggs, cinnamon, and half the flour. Gradually add the cider to the bowl. When all the cider has been added, add the remaining flour and mix well. Pour into the pan and bake for 45 minutes, or until firm to the touch and golden.

I have a cake pan that looks like a giant sunflower, and this cake works really well in the pan. The cake is moist enough that it doesn’t need frosting, so all the little details of the pan come through nicely.

I wonder if people are influenced by ease of access. When getting CP is no more difficult or awkward than getting porn with consenting adults (except for people capable of shame), it seems less illegal, even to people who know that it’s against the law. I doubt they really believe the judge is beating off to pictures of kids half a dozen times every weekend, but if you don’t really experience the difference between obtaining CP and obtaining normal porn, it’s easier to feel the former can’t be much worse than the latter.

Puella:

The thing that bothers me most about these discussions is the persistent conflation of normalcy and ethical acceptability.

Well … where only adults are involved, normalcy is a large part of the legal standard (which is also not the same as ethics, but it’s conceptually closer) — under the Miller test for obscenity, “everyone does it” is literally a defense, as “contemporary community standards.”

Cassandra:

The thing is, all those other things can be acted out with a fully consenting adult partner. Loli (and shota) cannot.

Isn’t that what ageplay is?

(Cue angry ageplayers saying they’re not like those people. I’m sure you, personally, are not, but I believe it of all ageplayers about as much as I believe the BDSM community is self-policing.)

Ozy:

I kind of don’t want to get into this argument because I’m afraid it’s going to end up Ozy, Defender of Child Porn, and that has GOT to be bad for my rep.

I redacted something from this very comment to avoid sounding like I was defending CP.

Ok, that didn’t work.

In before an MRA says, “OMG I would LOVE it if someone put films of me picking my nose and crapping online! Think of all the ATTENTION I would get! You’re a bunch of whiny entitled bitches for thinking that wouldn’t be awesome!”

Cassandra, I play that parakeet video on a daily basis because it makes my parakeet flip out. But the cutest YouTube bird is Marnie the Indian ringneck parrot:

I am with ozy on lolicon, not everyone who enjoys lolicon/shotacon wants to molest kids or commit statutory rape, or thinks that molesting kids or committing statutory rape is okay.

And BDSM/rape fantasies are not, in their fantasy form, always about consensual scenes. The issue is knowing the difference between fantasy and reality.

There is a difference between a rape fantasy and actually having an urge to rape someone, there is a difference between watching lolicon and actually having an urge to molest a kid.

This is also how we can enjoy violent action or horror movies and not think murder is okay or feel a particular urge to actually go murder.

So many baking recipes (well, ok, there’s two, but that’s cool by me.)

At library today I found a recipe for Croque Monsieur…gosh, it looks delicious, and I’ve never even had one in my life! But I SO want to make it before I go about posting the full recipe…it may be good or bad.