Children are being tracked and seduced via the Internet Pedophiles from around the world are able to network with each other easily and inexpensively. The sale and distribution of child pornography, and even the children, has become a huge business. Long term exposure to graphic images and messages clearly do influence both private and public perceptions. Continued exposure to such material has been clearly demonstrated to desensitize pedophiles to their actions. Child pornography is not without its victims.
Child pornography is produced at the suffering of children who are sexually abused.
Child pornography renews feelings of guilt, shame, fear and self-hate in the victims of childhood sexual assault. Child pornography fuels the deviant sexual desires of adults who would sexually abuse children. Child pornography is used in the commission of sexual abuse as a tool to groom the victim. Every 15 seconds a child is abused in the United States. The average sex offender has 117 victims.