arcady opened this issue on Apr 16, 2002 ยท 105 posts
Dmon posted Sat, 20 April 2002 at 10:56 AM
I live in Denmark, the first country to ever legalise porn. This year, one of our major hospitals has started a help centre for sexually abused children. They can come directly to the centre without going to the police, which many of them fear. In its first four months of existence, the help centre has already had twice as many patients as they expected in a year. Roughly one third have suffered abuse from a parent or other close relative, one third from an unrelated adult (teacher, sports coach etc.) and surprisingly the last third are teen or pre-teen girls who have been sexually assaulted by boys their own age - often very brutally, like anal or oral rape. The experts at the help centre estimate that these boys could only have known about such sexual practices from pornography. This indicates that ideas might spread, so to speak, even to people who have not yet formed any particular sexual preferences. So what is to stop other young (or less young) people from thinking that sex with children is acceptable if images with such content are easily accessible on the internet?