Guillermo Canovas, President of the Spanish nonprofit Protegeles told the Earth Times that the "web not only provides an outlet for people with deep-rooted paedophiliac tendencies, but can also create a sexual attraction to children."
He continued: "Thousands of people are constantly looking for pornography on the web. As their stimulation threshold rises, they feel the need for stronger and stronger material until their search leads them to child pornography. Once a man has become accustomed to child pornography or had sex with a 13-year-old, his perception of children changes. He begins to see them as sex objects instead of children."
The growing mass of pornography on the Internet contributes to the objectification or sexification of people, both children and adults. Individuals who many would characterize as normal people are trapped by the addictive power of pornography.
The article indicates that equally disturbing to the rise of pedophilia is the decreasing age of offenders. Many children, often mimicking what they see on the Internet, generate and distribute child pornography themselves.
Protegeles and CP80 are careful not to condemn the Internet - it is the most valuable social and communicative development since the printing press. Proper steps must be taken to ensure that legal pornographic content on the Internet is only deliverable to consenting adults and does not reach the unsuspecting and vulnerable hands of children.
The CP80 Foundation is pleased to offer free training to individuals who wish to learn more about the Internet, pornography, current laws and the CP80 Internet Channel Initiative.
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