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Gemstone said:
If someone watched child porn and got off on that wouldn't you feel this person was sick even if he never had sex with a child?

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Yes! I would think that person was sick. I am absolutely in agreement with banning child pornography. All my references to porn here are only to the type of porn that is legal in the United States. Child porn is non-consensual by definition. Anyone making it should be locked up. Anyone watching it is already mentally sick.

But in reference to adult fantasies, I don't think people who have rape fantasies are sick. I don't have rape fantasies myself, but I would guess that it's a reaction to power differentials. I was profoundly affected by watching the power relationship between teacher / student as a child. I don't know why -- it just affected me sexually. The result was that I'm aroused by domination / submission scenarios and occasionally look for that in adult porn. I was particularly aroused by corporal punishment as a child (I know, way too much information!) and that affected my sexuality as an adult (it's also the reason I'm vehemently opposed to corporal punishment). So many things can affect a person's sexuality that it's impossible to tell what causes what. But something as simple as watching a teacher tell a child what to do and realizing that the child can't say no (because of his/her lack of power in life) can lead to finding domination/submission scenes sexually appealing as an adult (it did for me). So I think rape fantasies probably come out of some equally innocent life encounter and are not an indication that the person having them is sick. I think exploring one's fantasies and realizing why you have them is an important thing to do in life.

But in all cases I am referring only to adult legal activity!

Sidony