Child abuse, not money, is the root of all evil.   Hitler, Saddam,  Stalin,  all had abusive fathers and doting mothers.   Hitler was so mad at his half Jewish father that his gravesite was made into an artillery range so that he would recieve Hell on earth ... the Hell of the trenches of WW1.  It is estimated that 70% of all prostitutes and convicts were sexually abused as children.

Current estimates of the numbers of children who have suffered directly from or indirectly through transmitted the behavioral effects of abuse in earlier generations is around a third of everyone.   Boys show it through anger, girls through overly sexualized behavior.   While the image of a male father figure abusing a girl is most well known,  the evidence suggests that as many boys are sexually abused by their mothers. 

While all manner of crime can be portrayed in literature, art, and other forms of expression,  the same is not true of the single most destructive behavior there is, but only if it is expliciet is it the third rail of art.    The public is obsessed with the subject, however.  but in the tease not the strip. The Jon Benet Ramsey case is good for headlines at any time.  "Law and Order, SVU", the TV series feeds on that subject.  

That level of concern is perfectly normal as the prime directive of any species is to protect the young.   The survival of the species and the gene pool is dependent on that.   It's a really bad idea to get in the way of a Momma Bear and her cub. 

Rather than deal with the problem itself, however, the body politic treats the image of abuse as if it were the real thing and cuts the budgets of those agencies charged with dealing with the real thing.   It's as if burning Guy Fawkes on November the 5th really does dispel treason, and gunpowder plot.  

It's alsoan ancient ploy to substitute the image of the real thing for the real thing.    Rituals are founded on that.   The priests of ancient civilizations managed to control the lives of whole populations for millenia just by pretending they could control the weather by ritual sacrifices and mumbo jumbo.    And the Maya used to toss kiddies into the pit to assuage the Gods. 

Freedom of the press is pointless without the right of the people to know is as free.   There are lows and in the Common Law,  remedies for lies and harmful expression that can be proved to the false, malicious, and causal.    Practically none  of history's previous repressions of the possession of proscribed expressions, including the Catholic codex of proscribed works, were as harsh as the punishment of KP.   The author or artist might have been locked up.   That still goes on here and there as in Austria and Turkey,  but the recipients of banned manterials usually got a slap on the wrist.   

Even the possession of classified material is not proscribed if the possessor didn't take it.  As in classified material,  the danger lies with the exposure of the truth.  It's as if the whole KP thing is an instinctive cover up,  by those who don't want the public to know what's going on behind the white picket fence,  or why their children are over sexualized or overly angry

 

Gordon