Children are easy targets, easy victims. They assure a "conquest" to a predatory male. Unfortunately, this harms the female child, and her sense of self esteem, but I suppose we are not supposed to consider that, are we, Hawkeye? After all, men will be men, it's in their genes, and all that rot. Is this your idea of an acceptable norm, Hawkeye? Is this why you see child pornography as harmless?
Child pornography
Child pornography refers to images or films (also known as child abuse images and in some cases writings depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child; as such, child pornography is a record of child sexual abuse. Abuse of the child occurs during the sexual acts which are recorded in the production of child pornography, and the effects of the abuse on the child (and continuing into maturity) are compounded by the wide distribution and lasting availability of photographs of the abuse.
Child pornography is viewed and collected by pedophiles for a variety of purposes, ranging from private sexual uses, trading with other pedophiles, preparing children for sexual abuse as part of the process known as "child grooming", or enticement leading to entrapment for sexual exploitation such as production of new child pornography or child prostitution.
Terminology
Recently, the term "child abuse images" has been increasingly adopted by both scholars and law enforcement personnel because the term "pornography" can carry the inaccurate implication of consent and create distance from the abusive nature of the material and refer to the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in pornography. This is to reflect the seriousness of the phenomenon and to emphasize that pornographic images of children are in fact records of a crime being committed." [29]
Child sexual abuse in production and distribution
Children of all ages, including infants,[30] are abused in the production of pornography.The United States Department of Justice estimates that pornographers have recorded the abuse of more than one million children in the United States alone.[20] There is an increasing trend towards younger victims and greater brutality; according to Flint Waters, an investigator with the federal Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, "These guys are raping infants and toddlers. You can hear the child crying, pleading for help in the video. It is horrendous."[31] According to the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, "While impossible to obtain accurate data, a perusal of the child pornography readily available on the international market indicates that a significant number of children are being sexually exploited through this medium."[32]
The United Kingdom Children's charity NCH have stated that demand for child pornography on the internet has led to an increase in sex abuse cases, due to an increase in the number of children abused in the production process.[33] In a study analyzing men arrested for child pornography possession in the United States over a one year period from 2000 to 2001, most had pornographic images of prepubescent children (83%) and images graphically depicting sexual penetration (80%). Approximately 1 in 5 (21%) had images depicting violence such as bondage, rape, or torture and most of those involved images of children who were gagged, bound, blindfolded, or otherwise enduring sadistic sex. More than 1 in 3 (39%) had child-pornography videos with motion and sound. 79% also had what might be termed softcore images of nude or semi-nude children, but only 1% possessed such images alone. Law enforcement found about half (48%) had more than 100 graphic still images, and 14% had 1,000 or more graphic images. Forty percent (40%) were "dual offenders," who sexually victimized children and possessed child pornography.[34]
A recent study in Ireland, undertaken by the Garda Síochána, revealed the most serious content in a sample of over 100 cases involving indecent images of children. In 44% of cases, the most serious images depicted nudity or erotic posing, in 7% they depicted sexual activity between children, in 7% they depicted non-penetrative sexual activity between adults and children, in 37% they depicted penetrative sexual activity between adults and children, and in 5% they depicted sadism or bestiality.[8]
Masha Allen, who was adopted at age 8 from the former Soviet Union by an American man who sexually abused her for five years and posted the pictures on the Internet testified before the United States Congress about the anguish she has suffered at the continuing circulation of the pictures of her abuse, to "put a face" on a "sad, abstract, and faceless statistic," and to help pass a law named for her.[35] "Masha's Law," included in the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act passed in 2006, includes a provision which allows young people 18 and over to sue in civil court those who download pornographic images taken of them when they were children. "Downloading" includes viewing without actual download, many successful prosecutions are completed through using residual images left on the viewers computer.[36]
Relation to child molestation and abuse
Main article: Relationship between child pornography and child sexual abuse
Experts differ over any causal link, with some experts saying that use of child porn reduces the risk of offending,[37] and others arguing that it increases the risk.[38] A 2008 American review of the use of Internet communication to lure children outlines the possible links to actual behaviour regarding the effects of Internet child pornography.[39]
According to the Mayo Clinic of the U.S.A., studies and case reports indicate that 30% to 80% of individuals who viewed child pornography and 76% of individuals who were arrested for Internet child pornography had molested a child, however they note that it is difficult to know how many people progress from computerized child pornography to physical acts against children and how many would have progressed to physical acts without the computer being involved
BTW- I understand the the BDSM crowd is twisted, but I have talked to women who said that they had fantasies of being raped by an adult man as early as the age of 7,
So I'm not without sympathy or empathy for the people who are dealing with these urges.
But Jesus God in HEAVEN - any sane person can't be a part of feeding these urges or this addiction.
There was no attempt to place the data collection within any specific time-frame or time period. It was decided that a sample of two hundred stories would provide adequate data for a content analysis. As such, the PI began data collection at a conven ient time during the semester. Once the project was begun, all stories which were copied to the alt.sex.stories group on the news server (the server location is not being disclosed for reasons of confidentiality) were downloaded and analyzed for content until the sample size had been reached. The data collection took approximately two weeks, giving approximately one hundred usable postings per week to the newsgroup. Four postings were deemed unusable (incomplete or duplicates) leaving 196 postings for final analysis.
Results
The results of this analysis were quite interesting in several respects (see table I). The most prevalent thematic element dealt with non-consent. This element was present in 40.8% of the stories. The non-consent element consists of stories of rape, child molestation, forced slavery, mind control, and other similar themes.
Table 1: Percentages by Category Category Percent of Stories
Totals exceed 100% due to multiple categorizations.
Nonconsent 40.8
Homosexual acts 36.7
Bondage 24
Discipline 23.5
Pain 21.9
Pedophilia 19.4
Torture 11.7
Group Sex 8.2
Furry 5.1
Mind Control 5.1
Incest 4.6
Bestiality 1
Totals exceed 100% due to multiple categorizations.
I guess we are crazy then..
In the United States, child pornography is prohibited under 18 U.S.C. Chapter 110, Sexual Exploitation and Other Abuse of Children. While this law defines child pornography as “depictions of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct,” the actual definition of what is a pornographic image is somewhat more subjective. Many court cases now use “Dost factors” (named after the U.S. v. Dost case in 1986) to determine whether an image is pornographic: these factors ask whether the focal point of the visual depiction is the child’s genital region; whether the setting of the image is sexually suggestive; whether the child is posed unnaturally or in inappropriate attire; whether the child is nude, semi-clothed or fully clothed; whether the picture indicates the child’s willingness to engage in sexual activity; and whether the image is intended to elicit a sexual response in its consumer or viewer. Notwithstanding the popularity of these factors, the U.S. Supreme Court has also stated that fully clothed images may constitute child pornography.
The centerpiece of the forum was a talk given by Adler in which she explored the possibility that the expansion of child pornography law in certain areas may unwittingly reinforce the very problem it fights: the sexualization of children in our culture. She asked how we can better combat child pornography and protect children without creating unintended consequences that paradoxically undermine the law’s goals.
Adler focused on two cases. United States v. Dost (1986), a case decided by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, established a six-factor “Dost test” to determine whether something qualifies as pornography, including consideration of whether a child appears sexually coy, whether the child’s genitals are the focus of the image, and whether the material is designed to elicit a sexual response. The Dost test has been adopted by virtually all jurisdictions. The second case, United States v. Knox (1994), decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, held that a picture can constitute child pornography even if the child depicted is fully clothed.
Such methods of defining child pornography, Adler said, increasingly require us to examine images based on their potential appeal to pedophiles. In doing so, they have caused us to adopt unintentionally what she calls “the pedophilic gaze”: “What does it do to children to protect them by looking at them as a pedophile would, to linger over depictions of their genitals, and what does it to do us as adults to ask these questions when we look at pictures of children?" Said Adler, "As everything becomes child pornography in the eyes of the law"clothed children, coy children, children in settings where children are found"perhaps children themselves become pornographic.”
Who's we?
Rape fantasies can be either erotic or aversive. In erotic fantasies, the woman thinks: "I'm being forced and I enjoy it." In aversive fantasies, she thinks: "I'm being forced and I hate it." Forty-five-percent of the women in the recent survey had fantasies that were entirely erotic. Nine percent were entirely aversive. And 46 percent were mixed.
Rape or near-rape fantasies are central to romance novels, one of the perennial best-selling categories in fiction. These books are often called "bodice-rippers" and have titles like Love's Sweet Savage Fury, which imply at least some degree of force. In them, a handsome cad becomes so overwhelmed by his attraction to the heroine that he loses all control and must have her, even if she refuses--which she does initially, but then eventually melts into submission, desire, and ultimately fulfillment.
Romance novels are often called "porn for women." Porn is all about sexual fantasies. In porn for men, the fantasy is sexual abundance--eager women who can't get enough and have no interest in a relationship. In porn for women as depicted in romance novels, the fantasy is to be desired so much that the man loses all control, though he never actually hurts the woman, and in the end, marries her
What it tells me is that we need to go back to the drawing board and see if we can come up with some societal regulations for sexual activity that conform to who we are, because what we are doing now is fantasy driven
No, what we are doing now is protecting the rights of vulnerable women and children.
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Share Comments 473 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. " The family of an Illinois National Guard soldier said Friday that he's been charged with possession of child pornography in Afghanistan over innocent snapshots of a 4-year-old relative in a swimsuit.
The U.S. Army has charged Spec. Billy Miller of Galesburg, Ill., with possession of child pornography and a related charge of failure to obey an order that troops in Afghanistan not possess pornography.
Army spokesman Lt. Mary J. Pekas declined to discuss details of the case or evidence against Miller. She said the charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison
If so much of this erotica deals with sexual situations that are illegal (sex with children, animals and rape scenarios with adult women) does that not clue you into the fact that the primary readership of that erotica is probably comprised of people who cannot or do not fulfill their actual urges physically on a regular basis - in this case - because they CAN'T without risking arrest?
And if this erotica in print or images is to STIMULATE desire for something that is deemed inappropriate and illegal - that goes back to my point that to view pictures of children in abusive and pornographic situations- could (and I think would) lead to dangerous situations if those people who were viewing these pictures and having their sexual desires toward children stimulated came into contact with actual real, live children.
Why would you stimulate something with no hope of satiation or satisfaction? That just seems torturous and invitation to trouble
I say imagining, because I've never been raped. But having been approached sexually by men in whom I've had absolutely no interest- I can tell you - these rape scenes in which the women just melts into submission to some stranger are the fevered imaginings of some twisted male ego
Quote:I hate to be the one to break it to you, but a big part of sex for guys is the conquest part, the ravishing the female part. I know the feminists have this fantasy about doing away with this but it is coded in our genes, you all best find a way to work around it.It's all about power and control.
The U.S. Army has charged Spec. Billy Miller of Galesburg, Ill., .
Speak for yourself
I work in a prison. I know that the majority of people (men, at least) who are in prison have either mental illness, addictive tendencies or both. Prisons are the new mental institutions - they're also where drug users are sent for enforced rehab- without medical or psychiatric support.
... any sane person can't be a part of feeding these urges or this addiction.
what makes you so sure that jacking off to a picture of a cute young girl does not satisfy the itch? at the very least we need to do some research and find out.
According to the Mayo Clinic of the U.S.A., studies and case reports indicate that 30% to 80% of individuals who viewed child pornography and 76% of individuals who were arrested for Internet child pornography had molested a child, however they note that it is difficult to know how many people progress from computerized child pornography to physical acts against children and how many would have progressed to physical acts without the computer being involved
I work in a prison. I know that the majority of people (men, at least) who are in prison have either mental illness, addictive tendencies or both. Prisons are the new mental institutions - they're also where drug users are sent for enforced rehab- without medical or psychiatric support.
And this is a good thing?
Both alcoholics and pedophiles may claim they are driven by compulsions, but both are also obligated to seek treatment for their problems rather than break the law.
You got it. I Have no use for perverts but by the same token I have no use for laws against thought crimes of things which don't rise more than a half a step above thought crime.
Aside from that there are simply too many ways some computer virus could load a computer up with banned images while the owner was off fishing or at work.
