# Should the New Pornographers change their name ASAP?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 18, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-new-pornographers-change-their-name-asap/1017181 "2025-04-18T18:06:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-the-new-pornographers-change-their-name-asap/1017181/25 "2025-04-20T14:56:19Z")

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> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> What you’re missing is that, no, the group as a whole is _not_ into kiddie porn. They’ve had that name for close to 30 years, and only right now, when their drummer (who was a relative newcomer to the band, only joining in 2014) was arrested for child pornography, is that even a topic.

The drummer has been with them for 10 years, how many gigs in how many cities did he indulge in consuming child sexual abuse material and not a single person suspected him?

The band could be guilty by association of minimizing the serious issue of perpetrating sexual advances on children by people in their organization. You just don’t know. And further minimizing the seriousness of sexual abuse on children by carelessly calling it “ kiddie porn” as if it was an acceptable genre of adult pornographic tastes. This should be in the pit not cafe society as if it were a highbrow topic

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