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offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 14:41 [#01079154]
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**Note: although this is off topic and controversial i am
being serious with what i say and intend for open
discussion**

This i will never get. Although i make jokes about it to be
funny and offensive with my friends at times, people
actually have a hobby of collecting such materials.

Would this be considered a mental disorder? To be sexually
interested in children is quite odd. I mean what makes a 5
year old girl attractive? That makes no sense to me. Why not
wait another 13 years for the body to develop and the
legality of the situation.

Why exploit children to such horrible things?

Is there anyone who took a psych class that could share
theories and thoughs.


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-18 14:41 [#01079155]
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I think it's a mental disorder too.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-02-18 14:43 [#01079159]
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Most likely childhood abuse/molestation.

Listen to loveline (adam corolla, dr. drew). All your
problems are related to what happened in your childhood.
But really, they've been doing that show for so long, it's
pretty amazing how well they can figure out what's wrong
with someone.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 14:46 [#01079165]
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what defines childhood abuse or molestation? Any sexual
activity in childhood or would that be forced?


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2004-02-18 14:47 [#01079167]
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what is a disorder?

why do people take ideas, and just because it doesn't
conform to a general consensus, it becomes taboo... it
becomes disgusting. it becomes a "disorder"

why do people think someone of the same sex is attractive?
why do people find fucking animations sexier than real
people? who knows... but its a fact that it happens.



 

offline Sido Dyas from a computer on 2004-02-18 14:47 [#01079169]
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Maybe its a perverted reaction to the peophiles insecurity
on older women/men.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 14:49 [#01079172]
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I find anything that isnt normal to me to be something that
is unnatural. I consider myself to be slightly normal.

I was wondering if it was. I mean when is the last time you
went to the playground and got an erection?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-02-18 14:51 [#01079176]
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15 years ago


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-18 14:52 [#01079178]
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BLEH!


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 14:52 [#01079179]
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hahahha! Shush it you! :D

:p


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2004-02-18 14:53 [#01079181]
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i also question the validity of a "hot" 6 year old, and yes
i'm not saying its "normal" however, i'm not saying its a
disorder...

if you say that, than you could attribute anything that
isn't dictated to us through society as a "norm" or a
"disorder"




 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-18 14:53 [#01079182]
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there's no such thing as a sexual attraction that isn't
natural... to call it a disorder is not really the right
word... it's simply another sexual orientation... i'm not
saying that people should be permitted to fuck 7 year
olds... but if a man wants to watch little children playing
on the playground with a telescope... i don't see how he is
harming anyone in any way...


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2004-02-18 14:54 [#01079183]
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*as a disorder


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2004-02-18 14:54 [#01079184]
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i heard that the only unnatural sexual attraction is NOT
having one.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 14:54 [#01079185]
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i also question the validity of a "hot" 6 year old

meaning what exactly? i dont follow. I think sexually
attractive when i say hot. As in fuckable. You can think a 6
year old child is cute or adorable while keeping sexual
feelings out of the situation


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2004-02-18 14:56 [#01079189]
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man, why are you picking at what i'm saying... alls i'm
saying is that it may be possible for someone to find a 6
year old attractive, however I do not.


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2004-02-18 14:58 [#01079192]
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are we differentiating "attractive" from "fuckable" ?

we're talking semantics.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 14:59 [#01079195]
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no no, dont misunderstand. I typed the words "i dont follow"
meaning that i didnt think i clearly understood what you
typed.

The worst things about Message Boards is the inability to
convey emotion. Darn!

I never meant to come across as an asshole sorry! :)


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-18 15:02 [#01079199]
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it's terrible when you sense that there's some sort of
misunderstanding and then the other person is no longer
around to read/reply...


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 15:04 [#01079202]
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I know!

*for future note. I am not judging anyone here or anything
but i for one dont understand it.*

On the other hand i guess if said paedophile was looking at
girls 16-18 (still illegal) i wouldnt really care


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-18 15:06 [#01079206]
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I don't know, perhaps it's the mental aspect of the
children, children are more trusting and less cynical than
adults. Perhaps that naiveity and innocence is what they
find attractive?

I think the view of kiddie fiddlers as weirdos who are
unable to interact/mate with people their own age is a
dangerous and innaccurate one. A lot of paedophiles who get
busted are "successful" career men, many with wives and
children of their own.

Part of the problem is that it doesn't appear to be a
mental disorder, or at least not a curable one...
Approaching it from the "lets make them find women their own
age attractive" approach is as likely to fail as trying to
make a gay man straight.

I think part of the problem (although I'm certainly not
defending their actions) is that if you genuinely did find
children as attractive as you currently find hot women,
would you be able to resist?
I think the only workable and humane "cure" for it would be
to incarcerate them for life somewhere isolated with no
children, but where they could work etc. and otherwise
function normally. Perhaps like the leper colonies of olden
times?

Deltoid: An MP3 player can be attractive. Doesn't mean "it's
fuckable".


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-18 15:11 [#01079214]
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i agree that for some i'm sure the appeal can be
sociopsychological... where just the fact that it is taboo
in a particular manner might be enough for some to be drawn
to it sexually...


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-02-18 15:12 [#01079217]
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some people are just uncontrollably horny i guess, and are
seriously messed up in the head. it's no excuse at all. i
mean, they might have those feelings towards a child, but
there must be an additional major immorality in their head
if they think that acting on those feelings isn't wrong, or
that the basic rules of right and wrong don't apply to
them.
however, right and wrong is not the same to everyone, and
maybe in their fucked-up mindset they don't see that what
they are doing as wrong. in that case they really should not
be let to roam free in society by any means, if they cannot
think about what they are doing, and apply that to
themselves, by asking the question, "how would i feel if i
had to undergo this?"
it says a bit about the society and mindset of people as a
whole. most don't really consider how their actions affect
other individuals and the world. many of these people are
just living for entirely selfish reasons, and want to obtain
pleasure by any means necessary, no matter how warped their
perception, or method of obtaining it is.
in general, we might not really have the power to actually
or entirely see how our actions hurt those around us,
besides faint expressions, what is said, and our
imagination's fake portrayal of how it might have felt, but
that is nothing compared to actual experience. if someone
had the same things they are doing happen to them as a child
continually, their perception or idea of love is warped.
that may contribute to their blocking out of their
conscience and thoughts, because as a child they had to do
the same, they had to either block out in their mind to what
had happened to them, and try to forget, or in a way, accept
it as the first and maybe only form of (sexual)
"affection" they ever experienced. they may
acknowledge that what happened to them was entirely wrong,
but they cant forget the fact that it was their probably
their first sexual experience. if the abuse was caused by a
parent or a loved one it might set into the child's mind


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-02-18 15:13 [#01079220]
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if the abuse was caused by a parent or a loved one it might
set into the child's mind that they could still love or be
loved by someone, but also be abused and violated by them.
even if a paedophile had past sexual abuse as a child, it
doesn't at all justify their actions, but it can make it a
little more understandable. i think a lot of this is a
cyclic, and being abused as a child could really ruin
someone's life and sexuality, but it can never justify any
actions that harm another person just for their own
gratification.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 15:13 [#01079221]
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to deadeight and Ceri:

I completely agree with your post ceri. I mean think about
it. If you are a paedophile you get treated like an outcast
and or a monster. The media portrays it as "preying on small
children".

Does anyone stop to ask them why? Or talk to them about it.
Gosh in todays society you'd have balls to bring that one
up.


 

offline epohs from )C: on 2004-02-18 15:14 [#01079222]
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there's groups of people who get turned on by anything you
can possibly think of. puke, piss, dead people, little
kids, big tits, small tits, other dudes, money, ect...

everything.

i think this is more of a question of what do you label a
"dissorder", and what just falls into the 'different strokes
for different folks' category.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-02-18 15:17 [#01079225]
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i'd say it's only a disorder if them acting on their
feelings hurts or is harmful to another person or animal.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-18 15:18 [#01079226]
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we should distinguish between child rapist and paedophile...
i don't think anyone would defend the actions of a child
rapist anymore than they would defend the actions of a
murderer... there is a clear breach of another person's
rights in that case... but someone who just has a collection
of pictures or something...someone who doesn't act on those
feelings beyond voyeuristic tendencies... i don't see why
they should be persecuted...


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-02-18 15:22 [#01079229]
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well, creating the pornography was harmful to a child
somewhere. why should that not be considered wrong because
multiple people are getting off because of it?
in my mind people who collect those images aren't much less
evil than those who took the pictures. they are creating a
demand for it, and paying and rewarding people for doing it,
or are possibly helping the spread of it on the internet.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-18 15:27 [#01079241]
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by that logic you could send us all to jail for the horrible
abuses which we incur to children in third world countries
for many many products that we consume...


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-18 15:27 [#01079242]
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Unfortunately, it's Taboo to even discuss it, so there's
unlikely to be sensible political debate on the matter. :/

Epohs: Yes, I was doing about child porn in law a couple of
weeks back, fortunately, the court recognises that you need
to exercise control and not treat the population as a whole
as deviants. For example, foot fetishes are relativley
common, but that doesn't mean we should make shoe catalogues
18-rated or ban foot painting in infant schools.

My personal view, is that at least some of the "attraction"
to what can reasonably be consider deviant behaviour (scat,
rape fantasy, etc.) is the very fact it is forbidden. It's
the being naughty, going against society, etc. which
provides at least some of the thrill.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-18 15:29 [#01079247]
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The courts in almost all countries, take the same view-
creating (be it drawing/rendering photo-realistic depictions
of children in sexual acts or taking pictures) is far more
serious an offence than consumption.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 15:34 [#01079258]
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This is a very tough topic to me. I know personally a number
of people that are going out with underage girls. I am 21
and a number of my friends are either that or 20. But if
they see a 16 year old that is illegal to an extent.

Hard debate. I know with them that they arent seeking
underage sexual partners but i recently met a number of
girls that are 16, 17 that are quite awesome girls. These
gentlemen would be considered criminals for that. It's not
like that.

hmm i miss my silly pointless threads


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-18 15:38 [#01079273]
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as far as going out with someone a few years younger who
happens to be underage... well it really varies from case to
case... there's no line you can draw, where after a certain
age you can be certain that someone is sexually mature...
there are 16 year olds who are more well suited for going
out with 21 year olds than 21 year olds who go out with 26
year olds...


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-02-18 15:46 [#01079293]
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It still stands; if you are 21 going out with a 16 year old;
you suck.

'a number of 16-17 year olds who are pretty awesome'? Damn.
I'd say that is a 1 in 10,000 chance to meet just one.
Girls should be seperated from society from age 13-18. They
are so fucking dumb and annoying. /rant


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-18 15:47 [#01079296]
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I know the age of consent differs from country to country,
but here we have three "bands".

The one everyone knows about is 16+ for consensual, straight
sex.

However: 18+ for homosexual activity between men (amusingly,
thanks to Queen victoria, lesbianity isn't recognised under
UK law! A bit like female instigated rape isn't...) or if
you're in a position of trust with an individual of the
opposite sex (e.g. a teacher, scout leader, religious leader
etc.).

Also, under 13s are far more serious (in terms of
sentencing) an offence than under 16s, particularly if the
adult is over 21. There's talk of changing this as some
paedophiles cynically exploit this and make a point of
targetting girls just as they turn 13.

There's also two more criteria, but I can't remember whether
these are law or if it was just proposed, so don't quote
me:

21+ for consensual homosexuality between a man and another
man, one of whom is in a position of trust to the other, eg
a lecturer, etc.

18+ for consensual anal intercourse, between a straight
couple.

Fun Fact: The legal age of consent in each country
has no reflection on when the average citizen loses their
virginity. In Spain for example, the age of consent is
comparatively low (is it 12/14? I can't remember...), yet
the average age for loss of virginity is 18/19. Whereas, in
Britain, where the age of consent is higher, the average age
of virginity loss is considerably lower.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-18 15:51 [#01079299]
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thank you for that fun fact


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 15:58 [#01079309]
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I do know that there are many countries that differ from the
US. I like getting different view points on such topics!
Thanks for taking the time to type that out! :)


 

offline giginger from Milky Beans (United Kingdom) on 2004-02-18 16:00 [#01079311]
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You have to compare the two societies though and their
different values on such things.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-02-18 16:00 [#01079312]
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well then, why don't we all go to jail for just knowing that
there are children starving in those countries? one is
probably dieing right now as you read this. at least by
buying a product made by them they might be getting a few
cents, maybe enough to barely live off of.
i don't know how many products that i use daily are from
actual slave labour.. and i don't really see what
that has to do with a child pornography-a child most likely
being forcibly photographed nude or in sexual pose/situation
in order for the photographer to make money, or to have it
spread among many people who enjoy that type of thing. would
you think that a nude picture of you as a child floating
around the internet could cause no more harm to you?.. is it
just the initial flash of the shutter that causes the pain?
i know that it's horrible what happens to children in the
sweatshops and such, but it's beyond the control of our
country's laws. we cannot circumvent the ways of other
nations, other than by giving up our own commodities.
I'd think that if one of us was in the position of a
third-world country's child you would do the same as those
children. You'd do the work and get paid your daily nickel,
because it is all you can have.
the corporations are just taking advantage of the labour of
people who would be dying anyway. if you want a better life
for those dying children, the only thing you can do is give
your money to a charity and hope that it reaches
them, or fly your own ass to their country and give it to
them yourself.
unless you organise a total complete boycott of the products
that are manufactured by children in third-world countries,
it will do next to nothing. if you and 1000 friends around
the world stop supporting wal-mart it would probably just
make the prices end up becoming lower and lower in a ploy to
get more poor or cheap people to shop there. as a result the
wages paid to the children would just get paid less and
less.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-18 16:06 [#01079317]
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What, like in some states in America age of consent is 21,
whilst in others you can get married at 12? :P


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-02-18 16:13 [#01079322]
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Age of consent can be 16 or 17> It depends on the state. In
my state anything under 16 is a Class C felony.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-18 16:17 [#01079328]
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I thought age of consent was 18 (at least I was pretty sure
it was 21 in others) in some states. I saw a documentary a
couple of years ago and the age you could get married (so,
presumably, have sex as well) was 12! They were showing some
class where these girls were learning "housewife skills"
like knitting, child care and cooking, etc.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-18 16:20 [#01079332]
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As an aside, I think age of consent will be standardised in
law all around the "civilised" world in the not too distant
future. I mean, can you imagine a married 16/17 year old
couple (yes, they do exist) go to another state or country
and find they're not allowed to sleep together there?


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2004-02-18 16:30 [#01079345]
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I'm offended! :O


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2004-02-18 16:35 [#01079358]
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-i'm not denying the futility of boycotting wal-mart... what
i'm saying is that it's being rather selective to punish
someone for having pictures which financially support the
propagation of child pornography, but not to punish someone
for having a financial hand in similar atrocities against
humanity that is attached to something more normal in
society... furthermore one is presupposing that one actually
paid for said pornography, when i'm sure that it's possible
to acquire such materials without paying (if you can find
beastiality porn on kazaa, i'm certain you can find
anything)...
-not that i want to get into it... but i think you're view
of how child labor and the industries to which it is
attached is rather skewed... these countries have had
poverty-creating conditions imposed on them by the
multinational corporations into their communities... you
can't consider yourself as somehow saving these children by
supporting the companies that abuse their labor... (not to
mention the fact that i'm also referring to the indirect
crime that we are involved in which has led to death: for
example gas companies with their own private militaries to
defend their resources, etc.)


 

offline Neto from Ecatepec (Mexico) on 2004-02-18 16:56 [#01079382]
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r@ygold style anyone?


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2004-02-18 17:06 [#01079396]
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There's evidence to suggest that the prevalence of easily
available child pornography on things like kazaa means that
people look out of "morbid curiosity", get hooked (or
discover they're a paedophile, depending on your point of
view) and then turn to "pay for" sites and even
abusing kids themselves. The number of paedophiles is rising
and sadly, it's not just a case of more of them being
caught.

I think the issue of third world poverty is a seperate one
and bringing it up here merely clouds the issue. There is
exploitation (which happens in all society) and then there
is robbing a child of their innocence and mentally damaging
them for life. They're not the same things...


 

offline big from lsg on 2004-02-18 17:25 [#01079412]
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i guess it's just what you call a fetish, so a strange
preference, but since it's bad for children one shouldnt
give in to it. (period) so that's period when they say
they're up for it (because they're developing still and cant
judge wether it'll be bad for them). also you shouldnt watch
it, just watch barely legals, or shaven teens or boobless
chicks and small dicked boys: use your imagination


 

offline wimp on 2004-02-18 18:15 [#01079469]
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Unlike the Dirty Sanchez, a certain "fetish" where hopefully
both participants are mutually consensual, pedophilia is
extremely dangerous and harmful to a child. Unlike adult
relationships, where both parties have an understanding of
their sexual identity and values, an adult-child
relationship consists of a party bereft of any sort of
sexual concept.

A friend of mine becaume sexually active at a young age
(early teens), and the outcome of which greatly affected her
self-esteem and self-respect. She wanted her older friends
to like her, and because of the immature experience with
sexual intimacy, she associated being "liked" with being
"desired". Of course, this concept led to the sort of
"bedfellows" who only viewed her as a sexual object. Her
past experiences have left her emotionally scarred and
frail, with a distorted sense of self-respect and dignity.

From this, I can only imagine the consequences of pedophilia
worsen with the younger age of the child and severity of the
sexual abuse.

Child pornography is extremely harmful, period. Child
pornography which depicts children being sexually molested
or abused is obviously vile and illegal. Child pornography
which features children in a "provocative" context is
similarly harmful to a child in the sense that they being
transformed into sexual objects. This type of pornography
creates an atmosphere for the pedophile that these
feelings/acts/desires are socially acceptible, which they
most definitely are not.


 


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