[MAdnRisKy]

here's a point. Is the having of child porn, a means for release for otherwise paedophiles?

Case in point, the "schizophrenic" (don't get me started on that diagnosis...) who had a large collection of gun magazines but no weapons (and innocent pictures of kids, framed). It was thought he was obsessing over them by his community mental health team, the magazines were removed... So he bought an actual gun illegally.

Then he killed a lot of kids with it. It was only later they found out that he was using the magazines to construct elaborate fantasies. Once this form of release was taken away he had to seek another...