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Essay / Child Pornography: Fuel for Pedophiles - 1047
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, the word pornography means: sexually explicit images, writings, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal. The term child pornography applies to explicit sexual material involving minors under the age of eighteen. Human beings, as part of a civilized society, are meant to evolve and eradicate certain types of behaviors that set us back as a society and degrade our human nature. Regardless of the severity of the sanctions against people who possess, manufacture, distribute, etc., child pornography, it is a phenomenon that is increasing day by day and can be proven by statistics. The huge difference between "regular" pornography and child pornography is not only legal or illegal, moral or immoral, the people who make and participate in these kinds of products are adults, are paid for what they do. In the case of child pornography, the minors involved are forced, abused and sexually assaulted, some of these minors may have been kidnapped from their homes, others used by their own families to make money in this unpleasant business. But the important point here is the fact that available child pornography is the fuel for pedophiles who seek innocent victims to satisfy their deviances. As a society, we have the power to prevent, enforce laws, monitor the Internet, and care for our helpless little children who are victims of child pornography. We also have the power to end this illegal and growing trend of using children as mere objects of sexual pleasure. According to statistics based on the "Services and Resources for Women Site", child pornography generates $3...... middle of paper ......for the rest of their lives, how can we be called a " Company ". Each of us has the tools to stop this, first of all, by understanding the differences between legal and illegal pornography, with legal pornography being that which adults are involved in. Secondly, we must be aware that in recent years cases of pedophiles abusing children have increased and we must protect our children. And the third point is that we are important participants in the creation of new policies against sex crimes against children. As simple as signing an online petition, donating money to children's rights groups that are running massive campaigns against pedophilia, or even doing research to find out if in the area where we live does not live a registered child molester. Small things like this can help create a better society and put an end to this kind of unacceptable behavior..