The National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction

“When I actually started offending [ ] … my aims were to produce a video without necessarilyabusing my daughter… that’s how I think I began justifying it to myself.”Ethel Quayle and Max Taylor, “Model of Problematic Internet Use in People with a SexualInterest in Children,” CYBERPSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIOR, January 2003, pg 93-106;published: Volume 6, Issue 1, July 5, 2004“the first thing I do like any drug addict looking for his next fix is I go on the Webfor…pedophilia[….] I’d stopped for a while but it was like constantly in my head… I wanted toget back to it.”Quayle, E., and Taylor, M., “Child Seduction and Self Representation on the Internet,”CyberPsychology & Behavior, 4(5), 597, 606 (2001).The subject’s access to child pornography “intensified his levels of sexual arousal and behaviorand fueled his desire to engage in a relationship with a child.” The subject progressed fromviewing images, to entering chat rooms, to attempting to access children offline.Progression from Viewing to EnticingThe subject’s access to child pornography “intensified his levels of sexual arousal and behaviorand fueled his desire to engage in a relationship with a child.” The subject progressed fromviewing images, to entering chat rooms, to attempting to access children offline.Quayle and Taylor , “Child pornography,” 23 (4), 331-362, (2002).Validation from Online Communities, p. 5.“For paedophiles, on-line communities show strong evidence of group dynamics, expressedthrough issues of status, expertise and apprenticeship. Child pornography played a role in thatstatus within the community was achieved through amassing a large organized collection,through distributing parts of missing series of photographs and through providing new picturesvia postings. Used in this way, child pornography both validated and justified paedophilebehaviour and acted as a medium of exchange within a community.”p. 23“Certainly it appears that for some respondents, pornography was used as a substitute for actualoffending, whereas for others, it acted as both blueprint and stimulus for a contact offence.”Quayle, E., and Taylor, M., Image Analysis paper (2003), p. 3.In more recent times, the advent of technology such as the Internet clearly lowered the cost of theproduction of these images, dramatically increased their availability, and, in addition, reducedthe risk of detection that was associated with the criminalization of production and possession.Wolak, J., Finkelhor, D., and Mitchell, K.J., Child Pornography Possessors Arrested inInternet-Related Crimes: Findings from the National Juvenile Online Victimization Study(2005) http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/jvq/CV81.pdfp.2“As individuals they were quite diverse. They ranged in age from 15 to 70. Some were welleducated, and some had not finished high school. Some were wealthy. Some were poor. Somewere middle class. Some were well known and well thought of in their communities. Some hadC-8