| No. This is not true, and I think I provided a good reference to that effect (it's really quite a good documentary too). A US surgeon engaging in child abuse is a statistical anomaly in the world of child sexual abuse. The best way to find child sexual abuse is to hop onto an airplane, and go to a region of the developing world where child sexual abuse is rampant. It's not all hard to find such places. Many children are abused at scale, globally. I think few of those kids are getting filmed or turned in CSAM. I'm also not at all sold on your claim that hands-on offenders tend to collect CSAM materials either, but we have no way to know. I am sold on the best way of reducing actual abuse involves some combination of measures such as: 1) Fighting poverty; a huge amount of exploitation is for simple economic reasons; people need to eat 2) Providing social supports, where kids know what's not okay, and have trusted individuals they can report it to 3) Effective enforcement everywhere (not just rich countries) 4) Places for such kids to escape to, which are safe and decent. Kids won't report if the alternative is worse ... and so on. In other words, building out a basic social net for everyone. |