Articles of Interest

By South African Courts as reflected in sentencing policies Introduction 1 On 5 April 2007, a South African newspaper report of a child pornography case confirmed my disquiet about the contribution of courts in South Africa to the trivialisation of one of the most despicable crimes against children and society: [Read More]

Public perceptions of child pornography “The global community has no excuse for saying that ‘we didn’t know’ or ‘we couldn’t foresee’ the exponentially increasing violence caused to children in relation to new information and communication technologies.” Professor Paulo Pinheiro, UN study on violence against children. Introduction 1 Recent incidents have [Read More]

Source: Sam Vaknin – October 9, 2006 Paedophiles are attracted to prepubescent children and act on their sexual fantasies. It is a startling fact that the etiology of this paraphilia (the need for an extreme or dangerous stimulus such as a sadistic or masochistic practice in order to achieve sexual arousal or [Read More]

Thank you for this opportunity to talk to you about a subject that most would rather not talk about because they don’t wish to believe that the stories they hear are all too true. I am not here to indulge anyone’s curiosity about child pornography. Some of the things I [Read More]