Professor Milton Diamond has suggested that legalising child pornography could reduce child sex abuse.

From here:

Could making child pornography legal lead to lower rates of child sex abuse? It could well do, according to a new study by Milton Diamond, from the University of Hawaii, and colleagues.

Results from the Czech Republic showed, as seen everywhere else studied (Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sweden, USA), that rape and other sex crimes have not increased following the legalization and wide availability of pornography. And most significantly, the incidence of child sex abuse has fallen considerably since 1989, when child pornography became readily accessible – a phenomenon also seen in Denmark and Japan. Their findings are published online today in Springer’s journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.

The theory appears to be that sexually abusing children, photographing the abuse and distributing the photographs for perusal by potential abusers, could lead to an overall reduction in child abuse – even though a few children have to be sacrificed as collateral damage in the process .

Could anyone other than a mad scientist completely devoid of any moral insight whatsoever, have come up with such a perniciously evil idea?