Child Erotica Vs Child Pornography Online

I watched a program the other night called Online Nightmare. What I saw was enough to give any responsible parent the willies. While much of the program initially dealt with phishing and other scams, the main part of this well crafted documentary focussed on the issue of pornography and children. And it was here that I became increasingly angry over the hosts assertion that online pornography was not the same as child erotica. A 7 year old girl wearing nothing but a bra and thong is evidently not considered anything but erotica, yet who is watching this child? Not your local saint I can assure you. Predators who hunger and crave the sight of a tiny body are watching these children.

Call me old fashioned or crazy, but I find it very difficult to seperate any use of children with erotica from porn. Yet according to one of the narrators, the law has a clearly defined seperation between the two. First implicit in child erotica, at least in my mind, is the victimization of the innocent we all scream to have protected. Where are their parents? Who's photographing little ones ranging in age from helpless infants to teens? Grandma, grandpa, uncles, aunties, or older cousins, brothers or sisters? Someone is, and as parents it behooves us to try and find out what our children are being exposed to. Do you find the image of a thonged baby or bottomless 7 year old enchanting? I don't.

But because of the phenomen of internet sex addiction, many otherwise "normally" functioning adults find themselves increasingly drawn in to deeper more objectionable sexual desires. The first thrills of watching adult online porn palls after awhile, and the addict increasingly craves newer fresher thrills. And far too often this leads to venturing down some very dark places in the human psyche, in a effort to quell the insatiable craving to get off and obtain release.