‘I didn’t start out wanting to see kids’: are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?
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More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are rising every year. How did this happen?
This article in The Guardian describes increasingly easy access to violent and extreme pornography is leading men to an escalating pathway to child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) they were not searching for.
The article refers to Protect Children’s research which has found that “accidental viewings” of child sexual abuse material by under 18-year-olds is a facilitating factor for serious offending.
