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The first point I'd make is, there's absolutely no point to possessing rights we don't feel free to avail ourselves of. If the govt coerces us all into censoring ourselves, then it basically amounts to de facto state censorship... and of course, this is exactly what the govt has accomplished in the case of adult industry, which stringently avoids references to rape, incest, or anything else that might attract unwanted attention. Those things aren't prohibited by law, but what difference does it make?

Secondly, our culture isn't sexualizing minors. It's pedomorphizing adults. In the midst of our national hysteria over pedophiles and kiddy porn ( not to mention have2cit's ), which has been fueled by a news media happy to pander to the public's basest appetites ( see JonBenet ), we've forgotten that a few generations ago, many American "women" were married by their mid-teens. The age of consent is higher in the US than almost every other country on the planet. And there's strong public pressure to push back the legal age for things like drinking, smoking, and driving ( almost everything except voting and dying for your country ). Of course most of this is simply the byproduct of living in a wealthy nation, with progressively longer life expectancy, which has afforded us the luxury of delaying adulthood. So in this context, is it surprising that we view the image of a sexualized 16 or 17 yr old with shock and disgust? Yet, at the same time, the majority of product churned out by the adult industry caters to youth fantasies, with most girls encouraged to list their age as 18, 19, or otherwise "barely legal"... while anyone over the age 25 is quickly relegated to "milf" status. This, in the face of all our conspicuous paranoia about "protecting families", just smacks of massive collective hypocrisy and/or denial. I call bullshit.
[ but I'm a sexual predator, so... ya know, take all that with a grain of salt ]

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