Borders Conference - Rethinking the Line: The Canada-U.S. Border / Child Pornography on the Internet Session
Appendix III: Presentation Materials – Max Taylor (continued)
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Security
Flatgirls> Torture? Can anyone else (besides dark lurker) see the techniques of LE on this board? The idea is to spread doubt about the morality of this hobby of ours… anyone who asks for l*litorture etc. is looking to dissuade visitors with the impression that we are a bunch of child killers… I'm with you…
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Board Status
Necrolord> Close this board down? What are you nuts icarus?! This board is the best place for us pervs to communicate with each other and share thoughts, opinions and information on the subject we all luv (but are afraid to admit) And I'm sure all the regulars are still lurking around, cuz there's no better place other than the newsgroups.
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Boards value
- Presence of regulars or 'wise ones'
- quality and frequency of posts
- development of 'newbies' to ensure further postings
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Apprenticeship
HeLLioN > Hey Icarus, thanx for the contributions but think about even you get something or other from this board, the newbies will get their share, will collect the oldies pix and get knowledge about how to protect themselves this si the main reason for this board to make newbies grows wise and increase our community…
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Critical quality - legitimising activity
- Present as victims - use of discourse of oppression and intolerance
- parallels with gay movement/ civil rights
- comparisons to racist or survivalist groups
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Pulling together (1)
Interviews and BBS's analysis complement each other, emphasising significance of Internet in notion of a 'community':
- processes of validation
- legitimisation
- sense of community
- support
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Pulling together (2)
- Engagement with Internet and Communities very flexible and dynamic
- Internet allows for multiple engagements through differing kinds of self representation.
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Similarities with other sex offenders
- sexual fantasy, arousal and masturbation to pornographic images and text
- situationally specific lack of empathy towards the children involved
- distancing himself from taking responsibility for accessing the material
- attributing possible collusion to the children in the images
- blaming his mental state for his behaviour
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Functional Addiction
- Salience
- mood modification
- tolerance
- withdrawal symptoms
- conflict and relapse
(Griffiths, 1998).
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Current sex offender programmes
CBT appears to be the most successful and targets include:
- denial and minimisation
- damage to victims
- justification and distorted thinking about offending
- deviant sexual fantasies
- relapse prevention
- lifestyle and personality
- sex education
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Current programmes
- Based on largely static model:
- innate characteristics (personality)
- prosocial behaviours (social skills)
- self-control behaviours (fantasy training)
- Ignore process model of offending
- engagement and maintenance
- high rates of reinforcement
- control of stimuli
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Issues arising from project
Results to date from project activities emphasise:
- significance of context
- dynamic qualities
- move from virtual to real
- pictures as currency
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Issues for treatment
- Internet facilitates attribution of blame/responsibility lying outside the individual
- enables user to cast about for identities
- generates received accounts for roots of paedophilia
- enables changing definitions of paedophilia
- allows for emergence of virtual community which can be transformed into real community
- can act as vehicle for working out of fantasies
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Internet and therapy
- Need to address social as well as sexual function
- Challenge to community identity
- Address 'addictive' qualities to behaviour
- Tackle issue of whether it enables or reduces the likelihood of actual offences against children
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