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...real worry is the size of the iceberg beneath Wonderland. Before the Internet, kid porn could be exchanged only in person or in unmarked envelopes. Now anyone with a computer can trade pictures around the globe; anyone with a camera and a child to prey upon can make his own video-and unicef estimates that some 2 million children around the world are now being sexually abused. The secrecy of the Net subculture is its own turn-on. David Hines, one of the men jailed last week, told the bbc: "I had friends all over the world...
...Another problem is that peer-to-peer file sharing systems, like Napster, can allow porn to be posted at prearranged times on an unsuspecting host, then quickly removed. Breaking international rings takes agonizing coordination among multiple jurisdictions, many of which lack savvy cybercrime squads. And in some countries, laws and attitudes still lump adult pornography-which may reflect consensual activity-together with child pornography, "which is the picture of a crime scene, of a child being sexually assaulted," says Rachel O'Connell, director of research at the University of Central Lancashire's Cyberspace Research Unit...
...keeping tabs on child porn sites, police can sometimes manage to identify new victims and arrest the abuser before more horrors are perpetrated. Unfortunately, that's not the norm. Of more than 1,260 victims in the Wonderland archives, only 17 have been identified. And the demand for fresh images, which the Internet's reach only intensifies, means that uncounted other innocents will become victims...
Imagine a Mexican-American TV soap opera written with Federico Garcia Lorca's dramatic intensity and passion for female characters but produced with the randy exuberance of a soft-core-porn video. Then spread it all across the gritty black-and-white panels of a comic book. What you would get is Love and Rockets, the comics series created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, known to the comixcenti as Los Bros. Hernandez...
...those who are not regular readers of this column, is something about which I'm a little insecure. It's the same reason men day-trade and look at pornography. I know that last part doesn't make sense, but I'm always searching for an excuse for the porn thing...