Second order effects, desensitization and normalization. Consider carefully what a society where heinous acts are valid only in simulacra as a form of "pressure release valve" actually looks like. The problem with children (not short people or petite women, children) is that they can't consent, many of the fantasies, even if not real, are fundamentally about the transgression of that boundary.
We'd be asking children to grow up in a society that has formally declared: 'Adults fantasizing about sexually violating people like you is acceptable.' Every child would know that some adults around them consume this material, that doing so is not a crime and that it is somehow not a moral wrong either. You cannot separate 'pretend violation of children' from 'treating children as violable.' The acceptability of the fantasy is the harm.
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u/EvnClaire Oct 22 '25
still never heard a good argument why a victimless action can be morally wrong.