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Cop forced to watch child abuse live on net.
Defenders of the internet as a boon to human potential took a hit with news that an alleged pedophile beamed real-time images of himself assaulting a preschooler to a horrified undercover officer in Toronto. The man was caught and charged, but his cyber-depravity is more evidence that the net not only showcases the worst in human nature, but actually encourages it.
The net makes it easy for formerly isolated sexual predators to find each other and form online communities, though evolving software is the cyber-cop’s best weapon.
Just as troubling, critics say teen chat sites like Nexopia are perfect hunting grounds for pedophiles. But Nexopia’s founder defends his site. As Kendyl Salcito wrote in The Tyee: Nexopia’s “moderators and users have helped police on numerous cases, including locating several runaway children, tracking a 13-year-old girl courting older men, and reporting online child sexual assault. Moderators are largely responsible for discovering the online activities of the Langley RCMP officer recently charged with child luring.”
Obviously, there is a bright line between child-exploiting porn and the garden variety manufactured by consenting adults, but some claim that too much cyberporn of any variety produces “erototoxins” that remap the brain producing a physical addiction. Civil libertarians say hands off to censors.
But where sex, morals and digital technology meet, it’s all too easy to push buttons. Consider artist Tim Fountain, who cruised for sex on-line in front of an audience and asked them to vote on who he’d shag that night. Next performance, he’d report back with salacious details. The title of his performance: “Sex Addict.” ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
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Truman Green
5 years ago
Comments on "Depravity.com"
Being a self-proclaimed silly science debunker, (the 'silly' refers to the science, not me, of course) I'm wondering how they can set up an experiment that would differentiate between the production of so-called "erotoxins" while viewing pornography from those produced while having sex.
So if a person was lucky enough to have sex six times a day (instead of merely porn), it is reasonably sensible to speculate that he/she might produce a similar amount of erotoxins--that is, of course, if they actually
exist.
That being said, there's no reason why an obsession use of porn cannot become addictive, if the appropriate rewards are forthcoming--exactly like the obsessive use of anything else; like sitting at the computer, doing comments, for instance. Oh Oh.
pure
5 years ago
Lets get the kids playing sports and doing odd jobs around the house with parents. "Too much time" on the pc is bad news. Do most parents know what there children are doing?
My parents sure knew what the hell I was doing and that was going to school, helping around the house, music lessons, basball and many other sports.
pure
5 years ago
I wonder how many kids have children of there own and there parents do not know.
The brain
5 years ago
I'm not sure I get it, David. What are you suggesting... internet is bad?
Child pornography among all other bad things humans do, existed long before the internet. The Catholics didn't need the internet to conduct their "holy wars". The U.S. didn't need it to make big bad bombs. We've been killing and defiling each other for milleniums without the internet for some time now.
The internet simply offers a record, thats right, a record of offenses that gives prosecuters a better chance at inditement and conviction than before, albeit, to the public offensiveness of all who watch and if thats your point, its well noted.
Whats missing, however, is that the internet, granting access to information in all of its forms, has power that is both good and bad. In other words, its a two way street!
Its like this. If we were to start cutting off the tongues of anyone who ever lied in their lifetimes, we would all be mutes! But guess what. People change. Often, back and forth, and sometimes, people even tell the truth. The internet is, too, a giant mouthpiece. Should we silence it because it is demonstrably capable of offensive behavior? I think not.
As for addictions, sexual addiction that is emotional, mental, physical, even spiritual, has its common denominators. Perhaps the best example I can think of that defines addiction is the behavioral profiles of psycopaths. The lying and denial, the predator/prey outlook, the emotional detachment created by the seemingly endless conditioned experience within and outside of the mind that conditions the brain through repetitiveness to behave in a pycopathical, emotionless way...
I'll simply cut to the chase with this. Its not an essay, after all. Unless a person is honest, willing to face all of the good and bad reality reveals, i.e. the truth, and surrenders the ego to these truths, the addict will not heal or get well. And an addict is an addict forever? Not when there is a complete change... but that can only come with PERMANENT CHANGE. And if there is no change, there is no healing. Just the same old same O.
And its not as hard to change as people think. Its all in what you feed yourself!. And depending on the diet you grow accustomed to, is what kind of "fuels" your body will run on. And for those who believe in higher powers, well, we know who "owns" that body to begin with, don't we?
For there are two kinds of power. The first comes from love and honesty, the ability and willingness to accept and live by "the truth", you know, by what is real. The second kind of power comes from access to knowledge. And how dangerous is knowledge that comes to us out of sequence? Without mastering the first kind of power?
It is about service. And to that end, I have little respect, but hold out for the hidden potential (which is so often unrealized) of those who serve only, and often, solely themselves... and tremendous respect for those who serve the greater good, while remembering to sample the goodness of that which they serve. It is, after all, what we feed ourselves.
Later, Dave, and yes, I'm writing that book (I know, I know, addictions, including participating on this site and other media, I know... working on it).
;-)
commentator
5 years ago
According to a wikipedia article, the term "erototoxins" was coined by Dr. Judith Reisman, who seems to have controversial opinions about pornography in general. The term does not appear to have been adopted by neuroscientists. Riesman is also alledged to believe that "establishment media" is attempting to "recruit" children into homosexuality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erototoxins
shmendrick
5 years ago
the net also gives people an outlet.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=913013
hard to know just what the internet is doing...