In fact, the reason I am in favor of anti-contact laws is because, despite what some of you believe, the laws actually do work as deterrents.

Need I point you to our previous debates on death penalty? (Of course you know I can't, because the search is broken, but I can google it all over again) You used to be against death penalty because it is not a deterrent, do you remember that? It is not a belief, it is a fact. Proven time and again in every country where it has been studied. And you perfectly know it, because you argue it at me when I defend death penalty.

I assume you will next argue that child sex is unlike every other act of lawbreaking and doesn't obey everything that we know about every other act of lawbreaking. Facts still aren't on your side. There has been a constant increase in acts punished and escalation in penalties given for all child sex crimes since ca. 1980. And yet, all child sex crimes have been on the rise all of this time. Antis argue that this is just due to higher reporting, but higher reporting can only go so far. 35 sustained years of increase cannot be explained away only by higher reporting. Child molestation is increasing. So much for deterrence.