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Child Abuse and Porn

Child sexual abuse can be defined as “any form of sexual activity with a child. It may include showing a child pornographic materials, placing the child’s hand on another person’s genitals, touching a child’s genitals and to the more extreme form of penetration.” (Kali Munro) It is essential to understand what child abuse through pornography is, what it can do to a child and why this kind of abuse continues. Someone who knows what pornography can do to a child is a thirty-one year old, mother of two named Bonnie. Bonnie spoke to the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography about her experience with pornography and child abuse. Both of Bonnie’s husbands’ were into pornography and abused her and her two daughters, Michelle and Debbie. The account of the abuse that took place between Bonnie’s second husband, Paul and her daughters are as follows:

He seemed to enjoy showing them pornographic material. The girls remember specifically a time when Paul showed them a picture of a ‘naked lady dressed in the bottom of a leopard skin outfit and holding a whip.’ He asked them what they thought of it. Both children said they were disgusted at viewing the pictu


If this abuse continues, the child or children involved in the exploitation will only feel worse as time goes on. “Child pornography almost always are associated with other forms of sexual abuse of children - - this just increases the sense of isolation and worthlessness abused kid’s feel.” (Chisholm 2001 p.14)

Lisa Marucci, who runs the Gatehouse for abused children, has found that abusers first try to ‘groom’ children for participation in sexual acts by showing them child pornography. Child sexual offenders work very hard to break down a child’s defenses, the porn desensitizes them and convinces them that this is normal. (Chisholm 2001 14).

Children used for the purposes of making pornographic materials have been manipulated and any child who is forced to view any pornography is also being manipulated.

'Society’s attitude about child sexual abuse and exploitation can be summed up in one word: denial. Most people do not want to hear about it and would prefer to pretend that child sexual victimization just does not occur,' Dr. Lanning (based on his 1992 analysis of child sex rings), wrote urging professionals who deal with child sexual abuse to recognize and deal with this denial. (Wetzstein 1996 p.56)

In conclusion, pornography is a type of child abuse, whether the child is a participant or the child is shown pornographic materials. It can have horrific effects on the child's life like feelings of confusion, powerlessness, pain, betrayal, guilt, shame, depression, or anger. This type of abuse had increased as well as the sexual offenders apathy toward their victims. These children are not the only victims in the world of child pornography. Another set of victims are those people who are battling against this sin and travesty against humanity.

Matthews, head of Canada's largest child porn unit, reports – many officers frequently fall victim to th

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