As much of the lectures this week disgusted me, they intrigued me the most. I am 100% against child porn, it is disgusting and wrong, but the topic as a whole interests me. I think that it needs to be taught about to aide in the prevention of it.
The educated and uneducated general population all knows child porn exists, but I don't think anyone other that the victims and predators know how huge it is. Parents and children are clueless and this problem needs to be addressed. It is an uncomfortable thing to talk about, but if it is not talked about we will never be able to stop it. The lectures of this week opened my eyes to how scandals these predators are. These people are finding loopholes in every law possible to find children. "Teen modeling" and child wearing clothes are two disturbing ways for these men to get off "legally".
One thing that disturbed me was the population of older women role-playing as children. I can understand a husband being turned on by his wife pretending to be a high school cheerleader or something like that, but I believe this genre of porn is a gate-way to actual child porn. Not a good idea.
At the beginning of the lectures for the week Dr. Halavais stated that he didn’t like talking about these things, and wanted to get it over in one day. As unpleasant and the topic is, it needs to be discussed, this may be a personal preference, as children are my area of study, but I found these three lectured more interesting than most others and enjoyed watching them.
