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. There are an estimated 60 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America today. Most child abuse victims do not tell. They are continually abused because the pornography serves as a reminder of the torment and mistreatment they suffered at the hands of their abusers.