아동포르노 근절에 관한 연구

Abstract

Child pornography is a crime to violate human rights of the children involved. becomes even more critical when available on the Internet due to its vicious nature of circulating, repeating and reproducing itself, making it almost uncollectible. The so-called 'permanent record of sexual abuses' , therefore, continue to cause significant damages on the children. Moreover, the flood of child pornographic materials fosters the tendency to objectify children as sexual objects, eventually bring about horrific consequences for the children to be exposed on various crimes. The oversupply of child pornographic materials seems to be caused by several reasons. Above all, lots of children are approachable through the Internet without difficulty. Secondly the materials can be produced with ease and cheap cost, whereas highly profitable with wide ranges of consumers. And thirdly, they are supposed to have no actual factors causing significant dangers unlike guns, drugs, cigarettes. Child pornography itself, however, should be considered not only an act of sexual abuse on children but also a critical sexual offence destroying social norms of sexuality.