Children in pornographic films .. How does the West violate childhood?

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“Sometimes I can remember the comfortable feel of the leather seats worn from years of 132 children kidnapped away from their families, mostly boys younger than 8. From the carriage to the basement of the country house 60 miles off the highway, the world's largest child pornography network has been revived. In Pennsylvania with an endless repertoire of “actors and actresses.” At least that's what they called us: actors and actresses. That's how Larry told me to help him hunt children and lure his victims, I would offer the kids tempting offers to be world stars. And then I was my age Only eight years"[1].

This was the introduction of American citizen Ben Ashland to his book The Filthy Mattress: The True Story and Memoir of My Escape From a Child Porn Ring, in which he tells his tragic story that began with his kidnapping. - He is eight years old - by "Larry" and then imprisoned in an inhuman basement and filmed dozens and hundreds of times in pornographic situations and practices he and dozens of other children, to provide a child pornographic product amounting to about 7,500 hours of recorded video!

This network was not the only one of its kind, as it consisted of only two people and was stationed in only one state of the United States of America and its events took place in 1990. Since then, the networks have been in constant development and increase. The painful truth is that the Western world until this moment is filled with such videos and unauthorized networks. Legal, but unfortunately it is rarely highlighted in the media due to the sensitivity of its subject, so some large news sites such as the New York Times and ABC rarely talk about these issues, and sometimes even delete them. What you publish on these issues of news and reports.

How much child pornography is actually available?

There is no consistent statistic on the amount of child pornography circulating on the Internet, but the amount of material adjusted to each individual network is quite frightening.

“In fact, very few get arrested and thrown in jail. There are thousands of active members on child porn forums and millions of pedophiles in the world, yet when only two people are arrested, the media portrays it as if a president has been arrested. Mafia".

(pseudonym: The Godfather, a consumer of child pornography)[2]

There is no consistent statistic on the extent of child pornography circulating on the Internet, as tracking such illegal material is very difficult and difficult to access, but the number and volume of material seized with each individual network is very frightening.

Many child porn networks are located in the United States of America, for example, in 2016, a network of 40 men was arrested, and distributed child pornography, totaling 36,000 videos and photos[3]. In the same year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation "FBI" was able to control "one of the largest child pornography sites" and tracked through the site 215,000 active registrants consuming child pornography, and trading 23,000 child pornography[4].

In 2002, the scandal known in the media as "Spotlight" appeared, which revealed sexual exploitation by priests of the Roman Catholic Church for minors. The beginning was in the United States of America, where dozens of priests who sexually exploited children were revealed, and then the snowball continued to include countries such as Australia, which 4,444 children were sexually abused by priests[5], the Netherlands, in which one investigative committee revealed 800 abuser priests as a result of receiving 1,795 reports of sexual abuse in the church[6], in addition to countries such as Ireland, Austria, Spain and Switzerland.

Poster for the movie "Spotlight", which was released in 2015, and deals with the story of the journalistic investigation that sparked the storm of scandals of the Roman Catholic Church in several Western countries.

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But the largest child pornography network ever caught was in Norway, where the Norwegian police launched Operation Dark Room and arrested an international Norwegian network that traded in child pornography, and the Norwegian police confiscated the largest child porn content in human history, as the volume of material reached Confiscation of about 150 terabytes, or 150,000 gigabytes of child pornography![7].

Despite the enormity of the material, its number was very small, as the network consisted of only 50 men, most of whom were Norwegian. However, it is remarkable that the members of the network were not from the marginalized classes, but were from the educated and educated classes, as they included politicians, businessmen, teachers, and lawyers.

The network has extended to Denmark and Sweden as well.

The shock was not only related to the amount of material published by this network, but it was also in the nauseating content of it as well. According to the head of the operations room in the Norwegian police, photos and videos seized with this network show “adult sex with young children who can barely walk, and with Children being handcuffed and crippled, with children being forced to have sex with animals, in addition to clips of children having sex with children like themselves”[8].

The police added that one of the defendants confessed to them that he was waiting for the birth of his child from his girlfriend because he had agreed with her to sexually exploit the child from the moment he was born!

The question here is: Why do such networks abound?

What are the incentives for its continuation?

What drives people to such brutal practices with children who do not show signs of sexual attraction in the first place?

(A television competition in which a group of -7-year-olds participated, wearing lingerie clothes and performing seductive movements, all in front of the audience greeting and applauding them)

Media and Child Gender

According to the American Sexology Association, sexualization occurs when “individuals are viewed as sexual objects, and are evaluated according to their physical characteristics and sexual attractiveness” [9].

In this context, Jill Danes, an American professor of sociology, points out that Western culture is full of stimuli that increase the sexualization of children in several ways, saying: "Today we live in an environment that bombards us daily with dozens of images that shape our awareness and taste, these images form what we call it." Image-based culture, "a term for a society in which spoken and written words as means of communication have been replaced by visual images"[10].

On the basis of this image-based culture, many companies and individuals adopt advertisements based on the sexualization of children, their physical aspects and their sexual attractiveness, and this culture extends from ordinary advertisements and traditional media materials to famous stars in Western culture.

A poster hangs in the FootStore in Florida above children's shoes, showing children who have been dressed up to appear sexually attractive.

For example, the famous American artist Miley Cyrus - known as Hannah Montana - made a pictorial show with the fashion magazine "Vanity Fair" in 2008, to show Miley, a girl of only 15 years, on the cover of the magazine with a completely exposed back without any covering, with a sexually suggestive look from Miley herself [11].

The problem was not limited to this erotic portrayal of a girl, but in the thousands and millions of children who follow Miley and imitate her and this type of culture.

In the same context, we see the American series "Toddlers and Tiaras", which presents the daily and family life of children who participate in beauty contests, in which the producers beautify the children's image in an inhuman way, as thick cosmetics are placed on the children's faces, with the use of "Spray tan" to appear Their bodies are more attractive, as well as wigs, false eyelashes, false teeth, seductive outfits, and more.

A picture of one of the "heroines" of the series "Toddlers and Tiaras", showing the large amount of cosmetics used on the girl!

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Such images normalize the perception of children as pedophiles, leading some abusers to consume child pornography online and search for it in the porn world.

On the other hand, what is the status of the world of pornography towards children?!

What is the truth about banning sexual images of children on the Internet?!

Imitating children in porn

"In 2009 I was conducting a psychological treatment session for child rapists in a prison. Most of them told me about the role of pornographic films in their crimes, explaining that normal pornography for them had become boring and unstimulating, so they resorted to looking for a more exciting and more intimate option, and they found what they wanted in the rape of a child." .

(Jill Danes) [12].

The Internet began to appear and spread in the late nineties, at that time, there was no censorship on the Internet or laws regulating its work as is the case now, and then child abusers had greater freedom to circulate ideas and clips on the Internet.

For example, in 1998, several Western countries coordinated with each other to arrest several accused of child rape, 103 suspects were detained and 750,000 child pornography materials were found with them[13].

At the beginning of the 2000s, Western countries began enacting legislation to criminalize the circulation of child pornography that shows children under 18 in an explicit sexual form. These laws greatly reduced the amount of material circulated on the Internet, but despite that there are still some pornographic sites that circumvent this law In one way or another, some porn sites on the Internet are classified as "psudeo-Child Pornography" and most of them use the word "Teen" to denote the site's content and the nature of the simulation that it conducts to children within its clips and images.

On these sites, according to Gil Danes, "it has become a habit to see a pornographic actress wearing a school shirt, or cuddling a small teddy bear, in her scenes"[14], which is considered a deception and an approximation of the actress's image as a child, until the viewer is persuaded that he is watching a child, not a woman extreme.

The differences between adults and children are also being "removed, by using many factors such as lollipops and puppets to portray pornographic actresses as children"[15].

The demand for these fake sites that come with titles and use many phrases and terms all trying to simulate the childish dictionary with words of the type (innocent - child - lost - small - sweetie - cute - petite) comes to merging the scenes with the childish atmosphere in the porn clip.

All of this causes a high rate of child rape and consumption of child pornography, as Diana Russell states: “A person does not suddenly abuse children, but rather goes through a transition process that passes through three stages, the first is the consumption of normal pornography, then the consumption of false child pornography, And then by consuming child pornography, until it reaches the step of actual child abuse.”

(The secret of little Ted Bundy.. an interview with a defendant who raped and murdered more than 30 underage girls and women who confesses that he found none of his colleagues in the ward of child rapists except that he was addicted to pornographic films)

This is confirmed by Danes in one of her writings, saying: “In 2009 I was conducting a psychological treatment session for child rapists in a prison. Most of them told me about the role of pornography in their crimes, explaining that normal pornography for them had become boring and unstimulating, so they resorted to looking for a more exciting option. and more intimate, and they found what they wanted in the rape of a child”[16].

This is how Western culture created the problem itself and was unable to provide solutions to it. It is a culture full of substances that make normal people sick and naturally obsessed. From commercial advertisements to concerts to fake child porn sites, the Western citizen consumes all these images and gradually changes his inclinations and tastes until he becomes an aggressor. And already raping or at least consuming child pornography, so that the phenomenon of child pornography - unfortunately - is not solvable in the short term.