The Web-Porn Patrol

Re:Keeping kids safe…
OK… I guess drinking doesn’t lead to becoming an alcoholic, right? Somehow I fail to see that one can become an alcoholic without drinking!!

That said, it’s not universal, and in some cases, sexual offenders have more a a violent motive than sexual, but here’s a quote that I think says it well…

“Sexual addiction has progressive features. Whereas some sex addicts may not progress beyond self-destructive behavior, i.e. compulsive masturbation, hustling, cruising, or the extensive use of pornography or phone and computer sex services, others may escalate to victimizing activities such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, obscene phone calls, child molestation, or rape. For some, sexual dependency may lead to more risky, intense, and exploitative acts. The lack of appropriate assessment and treatment of sexual addiction in its early stages may lead to failure to prevent more assaultive sexual acts.”

from: http://www.sexualrecovery.com/resources/articles/s exoffending.php

MORE LINKS… you’ll have to judge whether any of them are “authoritative”!!

http://www.medlina.com/pornography.htm

From this site: http://www.ktk.ru/~cm/stat2.htm –>

Does Pornography Promote Abuse?

Dr. William Marshall (1983)

87% of girl child molesters and 77% of boy child molesters studied admitted to regular use of hard core adult pornography. The obscene material was used by these sex offenders for three reasons:

(1) to stimulate themselves;

(2) to destroy the consciences and lower the inhibitions and resistance to sexual activity in their intended child victims; and

(3) as teaching tools for the child to imitate or model in their real life sexual encounter with the adult.

John Rabun, Exploited and Missing Children Unit of Louisville, KY

“The Police/Social work team of the Exploited and Missing Child Unit (EMCU) of Louisville, KY investigated 1,400 cases of children suspected of being victims of sexual exploitation. Over 40 major cases involved the successful prosecution of adults involved with over 12 children each. One case involved 320 children. At the time of the arrest of and/or service of search warrants, all 40 of these adult predators were found with various forms of adult pornography, and in most cases child nudes and/or child pornography were also found.

“Over four years, the EMCU team learned to expect to always find adult pornography since it was used for:

(1) the offender’s own arousal;

(2) self-validation of their own sex deviations;

(3) extortion of child victims or other adults; and

(4) deliberate and planned lowering of inhibitions of child victims.

The Badgley Report (1984)

The report found that almost 60% of both male and female juvenile prostitutes had been asked to be the subject of sexually explicit films or photographs; 12% of the girls and 20% of the boys had actually been used in making pornography; juvenile prostitutes are a high-risk group in regard to being exploited by pornographers.

Two smaller American studies (Burgess: 755 of youth hustlers had participated in pornography;

John Rabun: 37% had participated) emphatically confirm this finding.

Silbert and Pines (1984)

A detailed content analysis of 193 cases of rape and of 178 cases of juvenile sexual abuse revealed a clear relationship between violent pornography and sexual abuse.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder 111-R

Pedophiles who act on their urges with children commonly develop excuses or rationalizations about their illegal sexual activities toward the children:

1) that they have “educational value” for the child

2) that the child derives “sexual pleasure” from them

3) that the child was “sexually provocative” toward them — led them on.

These three rationalizations are “themes that are also common in pedophillic pornography.” p.284. In other words, pornography teaches three myths that pedophiles believe, and act on, when they molest children.

Southern California Child Exploitation Task Force (1988)

“One of the men we prosecuted had 50,000 photographs of noncommercial child pornography in a storage locker. He admitted molesting several hundred children following his release from a state hospital for a child molestation conviction. He even maintained a ledger listing those molestations. He taught swimming and tennis to youngsters, some of whom became his victims.”

http://www.ilppp.virginia.edu/Publications_and_Rep orts/UndJuvSexOff.html

http://www.fradical.com/Importance_of_COPA.htm