Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.161-165). Testimony of Cheryl Champion I have worked in the field […]
Child Molestation
Victim’s “Precocious Knowledge of Sexuality” Blocks Child Rape Conviction
Northampton’s Daily Hampshire Gazette reports today that a Hampshire Superior Court jury has acquitted Hubert Jaundoo, a local man accused of raping his then-girlfriend’s seven-year-old daughter in 2001, after Jaundoo’s lawyer attacked the child’s credibility on the grounds that she was too sexually experienced: His defense lawyer, David Hoose, argued the girl’s precocious knowledge of sexuality created […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Pornographic Materials Often Found in Homes with Child Sexual Abuse
Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.143-145). [emphasis added] Testimony of Bill Neiman, Assistant County Attorney in […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Likeness of TV Star “Rhoda” Misappropriated by Pornographers; Aspiring Actresses Vulnerable to Being Enticed into Porn
Minneapolis city officials heard testimony about peoples’ encounters with porn, those who consume porn and those who produce it at a hearing of the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 13, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.140-142). The following letter was submitted by Valerie Harper, star of […]
“Study: Rising number of kids exposed to online porn”
Today’s Gazette relays an AP story about children being exposed to porn online: Forty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in a recent 12-month span. Of those, 66 percent said they did not want to view the images and had not sought them out, University of […]
Exposure to Pornography as a Cause of Child Sexual Victimization
Professor Diana Russell has kindly permitted us to make this research paper available to the public as a free download. She co-authored it with Natalie Purcell. We made another work by Professor Russell, Against Pornography, available in an earlier post. This paper shows how child pornography and/or adult pornography can factor into pedophilia and child […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Porn, Child Molestation, Coerced Stripping (explicit language)
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.103-106). Testimony of E. M. I want to tell you how pornography has affected my life, how I am fighting […]
Testimony in Minneapolis: Porn Present at Child Rape (explicit language)
Citizens gave testimony about their encounters with porn and those who consume porn to the Minneapolis Government Operations Committee on December 12, 1983. This account appears in In Harm’s Way: The Pornography Civil Rights Hearings (p.101-103). Testimony of Ms. M When I was thirteen, I was camping with the Girl Scouts in Northern Wisconsin. It […]
Gazette: “Conversations key to children’s safety”
Today’s Gazette has two articles relating to the Edgar Selavka child pornography case, “Teacher’s arrest compels frank talk on pedophilia” and “Conversations key to children’s safety”. Here are excerpts from the latter: The best way to protect a child from a sexual predator is through consistent education and direct conversations, experts say… [Peter Pollard, public […]
Gazette: “Links between porn, pedophilia explained”
Following up on recent arrest of Edgar Selavka, a preschool teacher, and the indictment of Ronald Garney, an Amherst high school science teacher, for possession of child pornography, today’s Gazette consults experts on the relationship between porn and pedophilia. Fabian M. Saleh directs research for the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of […]