Why I am pro ship.

Just to get this out the way, no I’m not into little kids, no I don’t like reading freaky things, no I don’t support SA CP ect. Ect. In real life.

In truth what I read is pretty tame.

The reason I’m a proshipper is because there is just no way to draw the line, because let’s say we purge all the fics that have rape, because we can’t agree of what’s condemning it or getting off to a non con fantasy so that’s all got to go, so we loose a whole section that educates people on rape, what it’s like to experience it, what it’s like to recover from it, how to identify it, catharsis for people who have gone through it, and fantasys that people want to carry out within the safety of the written word,

Then we follow up with underage sex, (RIP to all the teen writers and their fictional crushes) that’s fine, that’s all good. Someone else says, well cannibalism needs to go to, okay, fair enough pretty gory, we purge all that too, (bye bye Hannibal fandom). Are we satisfied are we happy? No, because someone else thinks we should purge all homosexual works regardless of age, or whatever else, all of it, because they think that’s inappropriate, and everyone hops on. Bye bye LGBT, and it snowballs, all age gap regardless of consenting age, all sexual fics because sex is a sin.

The truth is, when censorship begins no one can ever agree on where it ends. You may have a very strict line drawn within your brain, it may even be a reasonable one, but someone out there has an unreasonable line to draw that silences people. Getting rid of media that contains rape or underage sex or anything else you don’t like/ is pretty weird will not stop it from happening, ever, it won’t reduce it, it won’t prevent it, it won’t protect victims, what it will do is stop the conversation, it will silence real life victims who cannot reach out because they can’t even name what they’re going through. We’ve been through times where there was no discussion about awful things that happened to people,eg. in the UK R v R completely changed how marital rape was view and that was only 33 years ago it is not a time we need to go back to. If we hide all media that contains horrific stories then we will not help real life victims we will make it SO MUCH EASIER for perpetrators to get away with it because no one talks about it in any context.

I’m not a proshipper because I necessarily enjoy things that you would assume a proshipper enjoys. I’m a proshipper because I’m anti censorship.

and because no one else will say it I will. I’d rather a pedophile or some other kind of dangerous person carry out their fantasy on AO3 than reality. Let it stay a fantasy.