<p>You’re both right. </p>
<p>Still I’ll not back off my last statement an inch … EXCEPT I should have differentiated … pornography vs. CHILD pornography. But as you’ve both noted, and society does the precisely same thing, we somehow think these are vastly different phenomena. In fact, they’re 1st cousins.</p>
<p>But in one case, the one that most certainly applies to a great man MidshipMEN, it’s “boys being boys…heck ol’ dad has his Playboys, right? No victims here.” </p>
<p>And in this latter practice, the victims are simply less obvious. But they are there and they are plentiful. </p>
<p>btw, I fully concur 69er and AF. The victims in both of these most certainly embrace the families, the perps, and far beyond. But for the perp, it may be cultural indoctrination, poor judgement, and absolutely poor choices that he (and it’s nearly always a he … little diversity issue here) thought he wasn’t doing anything “wrong.” After all he didn’t take those photos, right?</p>
<p>But if you think my summation and generalization are off target, I’d encourage some genuine research into this one. Sadly, I’m so on target, and even more sadly, families, children and women are victims of pornography, be it minor children or adults.</p>
<p>And I’ll be the 1st to offer that this is one of those most nauseating notions that I’d like to join so many others in not considering about our boys of honor as there is nothing honorable or true in any of this. Might we agree on that?</p>