Oh but I know how to consent so I will just say no. Because I am over 13 and know how to tell people to fuck off. So we should ban holocaust pictures too right? So you only have sex with girls to show your friends on facebook, and if it was not for them you would not have sex? Because your argument is that people looking at child pornography leads to people having sex with kids. So you go out and have sex just to show your friends on facebook? I don't think that is typical behavior. Sure thing it is bad to rape murder or produce CP. Looking at pictures is not any of these things. You make an argument against production and pretend it applies to people viewing images. Find me a single case where somebody saw the number of hits on a server and decided that because the number was so high they ought to go out and rape kids. Good luck. Even if you find such a person it makes no difference anyway. If somebody decides to rape kids because the word "the" is used in English, are you going to campaign that we strike the word from the dictionary? It doesn't matter why somebody else decides to rape kids. The only exception to this is in cases where you pay them to rape kids. If you pay somebody to kill people you both go to prison. If you say you think that people should be killed and it leads somebody to kill people, only they go to prison. If you tell somebody to kill a certain person you both go to prison if they do. If you say that you wish a certain person was dead and it leads somebody to kill them, only they go to prison. This same logic applies to all criminal activity other than child pornography related offenses. If you pay somebody to molest kids you both go to prison. If you say that you think children should be molested (what you argue is happening when people view CP, and why it should be illegal), then in some cases you both go to prison. If you tell somebody to molest a certain person, you both go to prison if they do. If you say that you wish a certain person would get molested (by looking at CP featuring them, which you claim is essentially encouraging the person to be molested again), then you both go to prison. The only way you can be logically consistent is to either bring your stance on deviant pornography in line with every single other thing you have belief on, or to claim that people should not be allowed to say they think any crime should be committed and to claim that you should not be allowed to say that illegal things should be allowed to happen to anybody. If you were logically consistent you would be locking up the neo nazis who talk about how they wish the Jews would be subjected to genocide again, you would be locking up the KKK members who think that blacks should be lynched again, you would be locking up the Anarchists who say they think the government should be violently overthrown, you would be locking up the people who say they wish that somebody they hate would die, etc. But you are not so illogical to say these things are you? But in the case of deviant pornography you hold people to a totally different standard and you want to police their thoughts and their beliefs rather than their actions. You and the others who argue against me use so many logical fallacies that it is sad. You are begging the question: The war on CP viewers is like the war on drugs because in both cases the government and media are brainwashing people and the end result is to send millions of people to prison for profit. The war on CP viewing is a multi billion dollar industry in the USA alone. You smoking weed causes no more harm to others than someone looking at CP causes. If you want to say that somebody looking at CP causes demand that is then filled with supply, I could say that you smoking weed could fund violent Mexican cartels who kill innocent people. You will say but oh that is the fault of the Mexican cartels it is not my fault! And then I will say yes just like it is not the fault of somebody who views CP that somebody else rapes children. You cannot use this stretching of responsibility on CP users without doing it on yourself. Your demand for drugs leads to violence, there is no question about it, if there was not a demand for drugs a lot of people would be a lot less victimized in the world. Do you feel the responsibility for the deaths linked to the cartels is on your shoulders? Then why do you want to try to say the responsibility for child molestation is on the shoulders of people who do not molest children? Using double standard logic is one thing but in this case you are just being hypocritical.  Sure Encrypted Keyword Search is good. But even today the P2P network CP viewers come close to this, and they are the vast majority of those arrested for CP. They do not network with each other on forums or communicate with each other, they simply type search terms into P2P programs and obtain files from them. The only real difference is that in the case of the P2P traders it is theoretically possible for somebody to notice that a CP file was searched for and downloaded, Encrypted Keyword Search can remove even this possibility. Somebody uploads a file to a set of servers and it is essentially in a knowledge black hole, nobody knows where it is anymore or if it ever comes out again.