Whitney Cummings once said, “Porn isn’t bad. Men watching porn is like women watching The Food Network: we’re both watching things we’re never going to freaking do.” Feminists led the efforts to ban child pornography in the late 1970s, and will continue trying to demonize men for indulging their curiosity in, or getting aroused by, “deviant” forms of sexuality, and for exploiting women, even as women (especially feminist women, who often are excited by rape fantasies — not that there’s anything wrong with that) indulge in their own violent, sadomasochistic pornography by reading Fifty Shades of Grey. It’s hypocritical and a double standard.

Feminists have even gotten porn involving 17-year-old girls declared “child pornography,” despite the fact that these girls would, until very recently, have been considered nubile (i.e. of marriageable age), rather than children. It is just another way of shaming men for having normal sexual desires. Young women are at the peak of their fertile years, so it is natural for men to want to have sex with them, and understandable that some men would resort to pornography as a more easily obtainable substitute.

In a way, it shouldn’t be all that surprising that some men want to have sex even with girls who haven’t reached puberty. There are, after all, men who will have sex with women (e.g. the wife they’ve been married to for 30 years) who are so old as to be infertile, so why wouldn’t there be men who would have sex with girls who are too young to be fertile? It’s been theorized that sex serves a number of purposes besides reproduction (for example, giving couples another reason to stay together to raise their children). It doesn’t seem all that farfetched that, in the race among men to be the first to get the youngest and freshest girls as they come on the market, some men would end up going so far as to go for prepubescent girls, erring on the side of too young rather than too old.

There’s also Rule 34, “If it exists, there’s porn of it”; for whatever reason, the human mind seems to have a limitless ability to fetishize anything. “Normal” people download videos of bukkake and Roman showers, yet somehow child porn is deviant? These distinctions are political, not scientific. As Darian Meacham’s Medicine and Society, New Perspectives in Continental Philosophy notes, “Immediately after the APA board’s decision to delete homosexuality from their manual, Irving Bieber publicly asked Spitzer whether he would consider deleting other sexual deviations from DSM, too. Spitzer answered: ‘I haven’t given much thought to [these problems] and perhaps that is because the voyeurs and the fetishists have not yet organized themselves and forced us to do that’.”

It also shouldn’t be too surprising that some men are attracted to young boys. According to the Super Gay Uncles Theory, one reason for homosexuality’s existence might be so that there are extra men around to provide nurturance to children in their extended families. Wouldn’t pedophilic desires for boys tend to create an incentive to provide even more nurturance, as a form of child grooming (which some pederasts have likened to heterosexual dating, in which the wealthier older man pays for the dates)? This is the basic thrust of the classic essay, The Descent of Chester.