Matthew's Journal

I'm another person who wants to quibble with your terminology.

I think if fiction really was *glorifying* child abuse, I'd like it to be banned. But simly having child abuse in a story, or a child-abuser, or rape scenes, is not glorifying child abuse.

Quibbles aside, not-having-pedal-reflectors may potentially be harmful to others if you cycle on dark streets and have no lights and wear black, or something. Chid abuse *is* harmful to the child. This is where I feel that the cases differ.

(I might note that there are some sorts of sex with older and younger participants which even if they were illegal, I woudln't consider chld abuse, but that's kinda a different matter)