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It turns out that for some people porn is a gateway drug to child abuse. They get hooked and start looking for more and more extreme content, eventually that e
by willcipriano 3y ago
It turns out that for some people porn is a gateway drug to child abuse.
They get hooked and start looking for more and more extreme content, eventually that escalation has them watching child abuse material, then then go from that to the real thing.
It might be why pedophilia seems to be more and more common post internet. If all you have is Hustler magazine you can't escalate to children.
- mcphage 3y ago> It might be why pedophilia seems to be more and more common post internet. I suspect (admittedly without evidence) that it's not more common—it's just more socially unacceptable, and also easier to get caught.
- ben_w 3y agoThe age of consent in the UK was 12 between 1275 and 1875, so I suspect "seems" doesn't map to "is". And I vaguely remember an 80s or 90s survey which said something like 1 in 6 American women were victimised as minors.