More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are rising every year. How did this happen?

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The reasoning here is specious and anecdotal. If extreme porno causes sex crimes, wouldn’t you expect to see an accompanying rise in SA, incest, and rape? Why does it lead to the thing that the algorithm won’t show you? Because the article admits that you have to go elsewhere for the offending media.

    This highlighted the fact that most people – around eight out of 10 – caught with images of children being sexually abused are not jailed.

    What can this mean other than most of the defendants are adjudicated not to be a threat to children?

    And if you think I’m being permissive, this article’s whole thesis is that internet porn turns normal dudes into pedos. Thus the offenders are not fully responsible.

    • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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      If their theory was true we’d have many more pedos walking around. Internet porn is completely pervasive throughout society.