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You are the visionary that I am not: [T]hose who seek to limit our free speech will not begin by attacking our channels of advocacy and abstract discourse, like VirPed and BoyChat. They will seek targets less likely to be comfortably defended either by our potential allies or by ourselves. Digitally created representations of sexual behavior by and with boys are rapidly reaching a point at which the untrained observer will find it difficult to distinguish them from photographic documentations of actual boys. As this dividing line blurs, there will be increasing pressure to permit prosecution of anything that looks too real, whether any actual child was involved in its production or not. To obtain the requisite permission, the authorities will naturally choose to begin by prosecuting work involving what is already a major theme of digitally created child erotica – nonconsensual sex. Naturally, because they know segments of even our own community will feel deeply uncomfortable defending this material. 1:| I believe you overstated the importance of our opinion – and, consequently, our power – for the authorities. 2:| Can we, here and now, declare the political death of VirPed? After more than 8 years since your post dropped, nobody, I think, REALLY cares what they say. That was certainly not the case before Covid. 3:| How the whole damn continent can live with no «u» in «behavior», and «labor», and «color»??? «Why are you crying?» «I had a dream in which you hugged me» —Crucifixus— ![]() |