Thanks to all that responded to my honest curiosity on this subject. I hope I'm not coming across as holier-than-thou.
TL;DR : Is the CP viewer to blame for what they enjoy? If our favorite entertainment became similarly abhorrent to society, could we stop enjoying it?
IIRC, in American porn there was at least for a time some level of censorship, perhaps self-imposed perhaps regulated, where you couldn't dress up an actress to look like a child or teen. Not sure about all the details, but perhaps this was around the time of the Max Hardcore scandal. So, there is some precedence for even the idea of portraying sex with a minor in a movie used for sexual entertainment being against moral standards.
I don't have any personal puritanical leanings when it comes to sexual matters, so I don't think there should be a thought police of any sort, however, for my own growth and understanding of what I might be capable of, I want to know if I and my peers think we could or should change our habits if it turned out that what we engaged in was demonstrably bad for society.
If it turns out that we could not turn off our desire to watch whatever particular fetish we have that currently is in no way illegal and certainly never would be considered so in the future, turned out to be an extremely negative influence on society ( humor my hypothetical example please ). And this fetish was now felt to be as bad as CP is now, would you be able to stop? Would you stop enjoying it if you saw it?
So, while I certainly don't condone the creation of real CP, what does it say about our condemnation of those that enjoy watching it, if it takes to the point where they couldn't stop enjoying the idea of it unless they went through something like psychological conversion of their sexual desires? I like a nice ass and I just can't imagine ever NOT liking a nice ass! What if in a hypothetical bizarro world society Nice Big Ass videos became as taboo, frowned upon, and as illegal as CP? How in the world could you turn off that mental faucet? It's like being gay, is it not? For those that have a strong sexual attraction to whatever they are attracted to, there is no realistic way they can be expected to turn off how their brain processes that stimulation, right?
Thanks again, for the earlier responses. I figure this isn't a topic you can bring up safely in our disturbingly politically correct society, so I am asking my brethren here for their insights.
Respectfully,