Borders Conference - Rethinking the Line: The Canada-U.S. Border / Child Pornography on the Internet Session
Appendix III: Presentation Materials – Max Taylor (continued)
Slide 43
Avoidance of personal responsibility
- allows for the safety of anonymity
- facilitates identity choices
- allows for the movement through identities
Slide 44
Impact on sexual behaviour
- Lowers sexual inhibitions and engagement in sharing/trading acts as a form of strong social reinforcement
- increases level of actual sexual activity, both in relation to pictures and text
- places emphasis on control, in relation to production and manipulation of materials
Slide 45
Participation in a community
Offender gains credibility with group by:
- amassing large quantities of material which are systematically organised
- finding and providing bits of missing series of photographs
- providing advice to newer members of technical and safety issues
- distributing new pictures
- re-living and sharing sexual experiences
Slide 46
Pictures have multiple functions currency
- Sexual arousal
- Reinforcement of successful collecting
- Currency
- trading for other images
- maintaining existing on-line relationships
- giving credibility
Slide 47
A Case Study : Aims
- Understand the role that the Internet may play in offending behaviour
- Examine the process of engagement
- Look at the diverse roles that pornography plays
- Look at the role of the Internet in crating new personas
- Possible links between downloading and assault
Slide 48
Case Study : H
- Male, convicted of downloading (currently on probation)
- Large collection of directories relating to child pornography as well as adult pornography
- Not in treatment at time of interview
- Married 18 years, no children
- Diagnosed as having 'obsessive-compulsive disorder'.
Slide 49
Setting Events: 1
Social isolation
“…friendships that had been established over a period of years were… basically evapourating and I was feeling somewhat isolated at work and er marginalised…”
“ …there was part of my personality that wanted to do something quite different”
Slide 50
Setting Events: 2
Inadequate sex life:
“And I wasn't also having a fulfilling sexual relationship with my wife… I didn't find her sexually attractive”
- Responsibility for which is placed with her for gaining weight and refusing to use the contraceptive pill.
Slide 51
Setting Events: 3
- Illness (reflux oesophogitis)…”
“So social activities were being restricted… I couldn't enjoy drinking. I couldn't enjoy eating. I wasn't in a job that I found enjoyable and I was in a relationship I had doubts over…”
- Limited sexual experience
Earlier sexual experiences were confined to “pornography and masturbation”
Slide 52
Engagement with the Internet
- Initially accessed non-pornographic Web sites
- Moved on to access adult porn “out of curiosity”
- Rapid skills development allowing access to material for free
- Started to save pictures because might not be able to access them again
Slide 53
Changing nature of material accessed:
- Became more extreme
- Normalised by taking pictures into work
- Feeling of no limits to what might be available and no body to police his activities (cf. Granic and Lamey, 2000)
Slide 54
Moving on to IRC
- Fascination and pleasure from Internet
- Chou and Hsia (2000) talk of the Internet as providing:
- escape,
- interpersonal relationships,
- pleasure from use, pleasure from interacting with text and information,
- pleasure of being anonymous.
Slide 55
Transition from Virtual to Real Relationships
- Looked for people to chat with whom he could meet
- Kept records of their “vital statistics” that facilitated the emergence of a relationship
- Behaviour resembled aspects of 'grooming behaviour'
Slide 56
Pictures giving credibility
“So I'd send them that material and that's where… I got sort of drawn into logging on the system, going into IRC, seeing who was around, talking about their sexual experiences, believing everything they told me and then also exchanging material, as king of proof of my credentials you know… to say, right, I've got this material… erm… it backs up that I've got an interest in that area of sexual perversion, let's say… so therefore it's Ok for you to talk to me about it…”
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