Child pornography

Child pornography is pornography that exploits children.^[1] It is against the law in many countries.^[2] Child pornography is made by taking pictures or videos,^[1] or more rarely^[3] sound recordings,^[4] of children who are wearing less clothing than usual, wearing no clothing, or being raped. It can also be made using illustrations of children. Child pornography is sometimes called "child sexual abuse images" because it is images (pictures) of a child who is being sexually abused.^[1]

Child pornography can also be drawn,^[5] written,^[6][7][8] or created by a computer.^[9] In that case, it is called "simulated child pornography",^[10] "virtual child pornography",^[11] "non-photographic child pornography", or "pseudo-photographic child pornography":^[12] the child in the pornography is simulated, virtual, or drawn, meaning the child is not real.^[10][11][13]

There are several possible reasons for a person to look at child pornography. The most common is that the viewer is a pedophile, hebephile, or ephebophile who finds minors sexually attractive and uses pornography featuring minors to induce arousal.^[14] Viewers may be curious about the subject.^[15] Or a person who plans to commit statutory rape may plan to show the pornography to a minor as a form of grooming to convince the minor that minors having sex with adults is normal.^[16] Mexico is the largest distributor of child pornography in the world.^[17]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Sanderson, Christiane (2004). The seduction of children: empowering parents and teachers to protect children from child sexual abuse (1st American ed.). London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. ISBN 1-84310-248-X. OCLC 567962554.
2. ↑ "Child Sexual Abuse Material: Model Legislation & Global Review". 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
3. ↑ Gillespie, Alisdair A. (2012). Child Pornography: Law and Policy. Routledge. pp. 21-22.
4. ↑ Yaman., Akdeniz (2008). Internet child pornography and the law: national and international responses. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-2297-0. OCLC 560604650.
5. ↑ "163.1 Definition of "Child Pornography"". www.efc.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
6. ↑ "Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition". Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
7. ↑ "Sharpe sentenced in B.C. child pornography case". CBC News. May 2002. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
8. ↑ "Ohio Appeals Court Overturns First-Ever Conviction for Writings in Private Diary". American Civil Liberties Union. 17 July 2003. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
9. ↑ "18 U.S. Code § 2252A – Certain activities relating to material constituting or containing child pornography". LII / Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} "Battle over simulated child porn". CNET. 8 August 1997. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Al-Alosi, Hadeel (5 September 2017). "Virtual child pornography could both help and hinder law enforcement". The Conversation. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
12. ↑ "Indecent and Prohibited Images of Children | The Crown Prosecution Service". www.cps.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
13. ↑ Al-Alosi, Hadeel (2018). The Criminalisation of Fantasy Material: Law and Sexually Explicit Representations of Fictional Children. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-57281-2.
14. ↑ Lanning, Kenneth V. (2001). "Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis 4th ed". National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
15. ↑ U.S. Sentencing Commission (2012). "Child Pornography Offender Behavior". Report to the Congress: Federal Child Pornography Offenses (PDF).
16. ↑ R., Levesque, Roger J. (1999). Sexual abuse of children: a human rights perspective. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33471-3. OCLC 40255970.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
17. ↑ "Mexico is World Leader in Child Pornography: Officials". 27 March 2017.