Internet Pornography And Children

What is "pornography"?

Pornography depends upon community standards, unless you're dealing with issues regarding children. Then, when you're talking about child pornography, you're talking about any images that are meant to create a purient interest or otherwise sexually exploit young children. That's what child pornography is. It's the images or the suggestion within the images, and usually it's not sophisticated stuff, so it's generally very stark portrayals.

How can children access Internet pornography?

Children can easily access internet pornography. If you log on to your browser and hit anything but Google you are liable to discover internet pornography. It's really insidious. Internet porn is probably the biggest moneymaker on the internet or certainly was in the early years. Those individuals who trade in online pornography have found numerous ways to get it onto people's browsers, where children might be able access it. They'll either have a domain name that is not what it seems. The best example is whitehouse.com, which used to be a porn website. The real White House website is whitehouse.gov. The disguised domain name can be something like that. It can be pop-ups, little windows that just pop up on your browser. It can come in any shape or form and your children maybe in danger of accessing it accidentally.

How can my child be harmed by Internet pornography?

Internet pornography is harmful to anybody that looks at it. Pornography is just not a good thing. There's nothing healthy about it. So, sure, children don't need to have sexual content in their lives. That's something that comes as you grow up. It's not something that should be obvious or apparent in the lives of young children who should be focusing their interests on other things.