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Watch how they gauged the scale of the problem with a 10-week online sting using the help of someone named "Sweetie."
http://www.upworthy.com/watch-what-this-make-believe-girl-means-to-1000-sexual-predators?c=reccon1
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)These people are doing these activities openly on chat-roulette.
It's disgusting.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)And they should be doing so.
How is this NOT a national security issue?
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)and prosecuted?
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)What the Hell is wrong that so many men think kids are for sex?
SO MANY!!!
and if an Mra comes in here trying to splain that it's really not men's fault I wouldn't be surprised. I can hear their hooves coming from the distance.
I highly doubt ANYONE, man or woman, would/could defend having sex with a child here. What's with the hooves comment?
Separation
(1,975 posts)Somebody did just that down thread. . I'm actually speechless.....
You have my sincere apology.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)it will have a marked effect.
Catherina
(35,568 posts)These sickos travel and tons of kids, young women from poor countries disappear each year. Banning the webcams is a positive step but we need a LOT more, starting with government accountability when they protect these sickos, to wit the scandals in the UK right now.
Here's the link to their petition http://avaaz.org/en/wcst/
I hope everyone signs. Even if signing petitions doesn't do much at least it spreads the word and makes it clear people want this stopped.
Rec'd
Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Thank you for the link.
polly7
(20,582 posts)gordianot
(15,247 posts)Testosterone baking their brains driving them mad. They need to keep scamming them for using the virtual sweety making them pay before they lower the boom.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)And ensure it's one of the first things that pops up when you hit their name-
Amaya
(4,560 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 11, 2014, 04:02 PM - Edit history (1)
There are a lot of them~!
arcane1
(38,613 posts)I would also consider that to be a NSFW video.
Petition signed!!!
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Of something passing the Turing test.
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)Signed.
Johnny Noshoes
(1,977 posts)signed it
mrsadm
(1,198 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)There are some seriously fucked up people out there.
TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)It's not a crime to have sexual contact with a computer program.
The money they pay could be used to rescue real children who are actually in harm's way.
Distasteful? Yes. But studies show it is incredibly difficult to stop pedophiles. They have notoriously high recidivism rates. If you gather up all of them, there will be another generation and another and another. Hydra.
Recent studies suggest some of them have fundamental differences in their brains.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/19/can-science-spot-a-pedophile-research-zeroes-in-on-brain-abnormalities.html
Just make a computer program to divert their attention from real children.
TYY
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)want to abuse children. If they knew it was a computer program, they wouldn't be interested.
And obviously they aren't only talking to "Sweetie." She just happens to be who is available at that moment. If enough men get caught then hopefully they'll get scared and will stop abusing vulnerable children. Right now they're doing it at the rates they are because there has been basically no penalty.
boston bean
(36,224 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)n/t
BainsBane
(53,093 posts)If they thought it was just a computer program, they wouldn't be interested. They are pedophiles. They aren't computer gamers.
Murder is never going to be eradicated either. That doesn't mean we should just forget about it.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)TalkingDog
(9,001 posts)Yah. That'll happen.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)but you go ahead and defend child pornographers...
The Statistics
Recent studies demonstrate that those who collect and disseminate child pornography are likely to molest an actual child. According to the United States Postal Inspection Service, at least 80% of purchasers of child pornography are active abusers and nearly 40% of the child pornographers investigated over the past several years have sexually molested children in the past. From January 1997 through March 2004, 1,807 child pornographers were arrested and 620 of these individuals were confirmed child molesters.
Therefore, between 34-36% of these child pornographers were actual child molesters, defined as someone who had confessed to acts of molestation, someone who had a record for molestation, or someone who was involved in an overt act in order to procure children for sexual purposes. The 620 confirmed child molesters led to 839 child victims who were identified and rescued.
(more at link)
http://www.ndaa.org/pdf/Update_gr_vol1_no3.pdf
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Rapists do not stop raping because they have porn.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)--it's one thing to argue that porn doesn't stimulate rape incidence, it's quite another thing to argue that porn reduces the inclination to rape. No study has proven the latter.
On the contrary there are enough stats to conclude that child porn of any kind may provide a stimulus for child sex abuse. (Real child porn being rape to begin with). Virtual child porn could also be a stimulus to actual rape, since there's a clear correlation between child porn and acting out behavior.
Dunno, maybe these are the same people who think that the proliferation of adult rape porn stops people from raping adults...notice I said Rape Porn, not all porn, but all porn now tends to violence and domination, so the question is certainly relevant to the current psycho-sociological experiment. At this point there is no conclusive evidence.
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Other factors have slowed rape down in general, over the last decades:
1) Public education campaign carried on via TV, movies, etc. from the 1970s forward, from which (a) men have learned that that rapists are not smooth ladies' men like Rhett Butler but sadistic creeps, and (b) women have learned about the prevalence of rape and have also learned self-protective behaviors.
2) Development of DNA testing as forensic tool.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)thank you for your posts in this thread.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Seems like there's a lot of urban mythology out there --re. the idea that watching rapist porn can prevent raping...that is a real stretch given what we already know.
Nothing is proven. Obviously it's a little hard to get good data. Nobody knows who would rape if they could get away with it. Interviewing rapists who are apprehended doesn't tell you about who is controlling their urges, for whatever reason.
BainsBane
(53,093 posts)no, but does that mean we shouldn't bother prosecuting it?
Additionally, children are raped in the commission of child porn. The porn itself is rape. Do you get that?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Texasgal
(17,048 posts)Simply put.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I think at least some of that money could instead go to catching these folks, don't you?
Skittles
(153,226 posts)anyone?
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)but nothing conclusive. Possibly something wrong in wiring at an early age, for example:
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has shown that child molesters diagnosed with pedophilia have reduced activation of the hypothalamus as compared with non-pedophilic persons when viewing sexually arousing pictures of adults.[88] A 2008 functional neuroimaging study notes that central processing of sexual stimuli in heterosexual "paedophile forensic inpatients" may be altered by a disturbance in the prefrontal networks, which "may be associated with stimulus-controlled behaviors, such as sexual compulsive behaviors". The findings may also suggest "a dysfunction at the cognitive stage of sexual arousal processing".
Blanchard, Cantor, and Robichaud (2006) reviewed the research that attempted to identify hormonal aspects of pedophiles.[64] They concluded that there is some evidence that pedophilic men have less testosterone than controls, but that the research is of poor quality and that it is difficult to draw any firm conclusion from it.
A study analyzing the sexual fantasies of 200 heterosexual men by using the Wilson Sex Fantasy Questionnaire exam determined that males with a pronounced degree of paraphilic interest (including pedophilia) had a greater number of older brothers, a high 2D:4D digit ratio (which would indicate excessive prenatal estrogen exposure), and an elevated probability of being left-handed, suggesting that disturbed hemispheric brain lateralization may play a role in deviant attractions.[90]
(Wikipedia)
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marions ghost
(19,841 posts)Find them and treat them.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as relapse prevention, has been shown to reduce recidivism in contact sex offenders.
According to Canadian sexologist Michael C. Seto, cognitive-behavioral treatments target attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are believed to increase the likelihood of sexual offenses against children, and "relapse prevention" is the most common type of cognitive behavioral treatment. The techniques of relapse prevention are based on principles used for treating addictions. Other scientists have also done some research that indicates that recidivism rates of pedophiles in therapy are lower than pedophiles who eschew therapy. (Wiki)
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Makers and sellers of child pornography should be prosecuted.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)You would only ensure that they murder the only witnesses to their crimes.
Throw them in the slammer and try to treat them (although that's never been that successful). But first of all, they need to be caught.
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