Keep in mind I am not talking about whether we should legalize it, bit just discussing reasons why it is illegal.



>>Children are so impressionable and most people so ill informed about maintaining the sexual well being of a child that probably nothing can be produced that doesn't have a great deal of inherent emotional and physical risk. Weather the benefit from that risk will outweigh the good… hmmm…


Here you are merely presenting a dogma: it is wrong because it is wrong. But can anyone explain why sex is any different from other types of activity? This is the main issue here.

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>Second if child porn and children playing basketball present the same amount of danger, I'd say that instead of advocating for child porn I'd be against child basketball and cheerleading stars. All in all, child porn probably can't be an industry which is largely empathetic towards children.


The reason I mentioned that is not as an argument for legalizing something bu to explain the basic principle.
Our society has no problems with exploiting children and causing then serious physical and emotional damage.

I compare the sex industry with the sports industry, where the sports industry has very detrimental effects on the health of its participants up to the severely reduced lifespan. People are literally selling their bodies. But unlike sex industry, it is considered highly respectable.

Also speaking about child actors in general, typically they all end their lives very badly. Most of them end their carriers with a drug overdose, and the rest are left all forgotten working in some low-quality jobs.
The entertainment industry is extremely brutal for everyone. I would say it is way more brutal than porns simply because porn does not bring that much of money so there is way less pressure.

We can also mention child gymnastic, which is known to cause anorexia because coaches are pressuring children to stay on a strict diet and lose weight.

From this fact, we can make an obvious conclusion that society does not give a shit about well being of the safety of anyone as it claims to do. Because if that was an issue here, all those other forms of exploitation would be forbidden as well. But they are encouraged and even funded by the government.

So the argument about exploitation and safety does not apply here.