“Crime writer John Grisham has said America is unjustly jailing too many citizens for viewing child pornography. In an interview with The Telegraph, Grisham, who earned $17 million last year and tied for 6th place in Forbes’ ranking of top-earning authors, attacked the widespread incarceration of those who watch child porn.
“We have prisons now filled with guys my age. Sixty-year-old white men in prison who’ve never harmed anybody, would never touch a child,” he told The Telegraph’s Peter Foster in an interview to promote his latest novel, Gray Mountain.” *
John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) break it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here from http://www.forbes.com/sites/natalierobehmed/2014/10/16/millionair-author-john-grisham-says-not-all-men-who-watch-child-porn-are-pedophiles/
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Comments
I think we have a definition problem here. 16 should be age of consent in my opinion,
because it’s just the reality today,
and, yes, 16-year old are already sexually active human beings.
Calling this pedophilia would criminalize thousands of 16-year old kids,
and actually does a service to actual pedophiles
because it trivializes real pedophilia, which is a completely different category.
There is some context to the ‘white’ comment, it came after this –
“Mr Grisham, 59, argued America’s judges had “gone crazy” over the past 30 years, locking up far too many people, from white collar criminals like the businesswoman Martha Stewart, to black teenagers on minor drugs charges and – he added – those who had viewed child porn online.”
and further –
““Some things have not changed. We see it all the time. It begins with the investigation and the treatment of suspects. A black suspect is simply treated differently from a white suspect,” Grisham says. “Then they are tried in a system populated by white prosecutors and white judges and all-white juries. And that’s not much different from the trial 75 years ago of Tom Robinson.””
If you shop at Wal-mart, you’re supporting Wal-mart.
If you shop at McDonald’s, you’re supporting McDonald’s.
If you buy local, you’re supporting local.
If you watch child pornography, you’re supporting an industry that films the abuse of children.
I’ll say the same thing I said in the members area:
I have many things to say about the John Grisham story. I’m sure I’ll get some hate, but here we go! Lol.
First, if you watch child pornography, you’re still a pedophile. You’re not a predator or what not, but you’re still a pedophile.
I suppose you can say people that watch child pornography are sort of bad, but they’re definitely not as bad as those who go out and have sex with kids. Really, it’s just something in their brain that makes them like it. They can’t help it. But at least they’re not going out and doing it. It’s like if there was a person who had the urge to murder someone all the time. Instead of killing, they watched snuff films. Just an analogy. They’re both sort of bad, but one is worse than the other.
With that said, it’d probably be okay if they made video games or animated films to help pedophiles and the like deal with their problem. That way there aren’t real people being harmed anywhere in the world in those movies.
Also, Grisham said he had a buddy who watched 16 year old porn online and got busted. That’s totally different. Yes, it was stupid of him to download that stuff when he knew what was ahead, but you definitely can’t compare 16 year olds to pre-pubescent children. 16 years old is the legal age in some states, and many 16 year olds around the country and world have sex at that age with a sound mind / consent. I don’t know if it’s okay to call that person a pervert. A huge majority of men go for younger women. Many will still go for 18. There’s not a huge difference between 16 and 18. If we make real mental maturity a legal age, the mid 20s should be a true legal age.
Lastly, if you’re watching a 16 year old having sex, you’re not a pedophile, you’re a Ephebophile. Nobody ever uses Ephebophilia and Hebephilia. It’s always Pedophilia, which only applies to PRE-PUBESCENT children.