Long-Term Effect of Child Pornography Term Paper

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It should be clear that effects of sexual child abuse vary from person to person (Sanderson, 2006). Some children may come up with the extreme effects of the sexual abuse they suffered, forget them and lead towards a better life if got a chance, while some other children may fail to recover their emotional and psychological strength and confidence. They may suffer failure in their general goals of life too. A victim of sexual abuse often finds himself alienated and different, the child often fails to express his or her real suffering to anybody else and that further complicates the consequences of the sexual abuse.

There have been some studies that have tried to mitigate the long-term effects of child pornography and child sexual abuse. Some of them have even tried to drop the terms "Child Sexual Abuse" or "Child molestation" in case where the child takes part in the sexual activity with 'consent', these psychological researchers have recommended to use much mitigated term such as "Adult-child sex." In 1999, American Psychological Association refused to withdraw a psychological research study that claimed that sexual child abuse is not harmful to those children who shows "consent" for the sexual acts. In 1998, American Psychological Association published a study by three prominent professors Mr. Bruce Rand from Temple University, Mr.

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Philip Tromovitch from the University of Pennsylvania and Mr. Robert Bauserman from the University of Michigan, in its reputed Psychological Bulletin. The study claimed that child sexual abuse does not necessarily produce long-term negative consequences. They further suggested that even if some post-traumatic negative effects do occurs, they remain temporary and does not long last (O'Meara, 1999).

To conclude, it can be said that child pornography has evolved from its traditional form to hi-tech virtual child pornographic form and now it is much easier to produce, share and distribute child pornography using internet media. It is to be noted that child pornography in any form is dangerous and can cause harmful effects on children and the whole society as it can be used to instigate sexual abuses against children......

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