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hlthe2b

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1. One of these days I'm going to have to take a deep dive into the psych literature on this...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed May 20, 2026, 08:30 PM

15 hrs ago

because I have always been totally unable to understand what is behind men's urge to own and view child pornography--even if they never act on it.

I don't care to understand to defend them in any way, but just to understand the pathology (or at least that is how I term it) behind it. I had a neighbor who was the nation's leading psychiatric expert on adult attention deficit disorder and we had some great discussions on that and other adjacent issues, but obviously the former issue is way too far afield for social debate.

At any rate I'm glad he was caught, but how many more like him?

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One of these days I'm going to have to take a deep dive into the psych literature on this... hlthe2b 15 hrs ago #1

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