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There is very little one can do with this paedophile menace as the government tinkers around at the edges.
Either there is an epidemic of paedophilia, fed by Facebook and the Internet, or sadism and exploiting the helpless and vulnerable has always been the bloodsport of the secretly depraved.
They do not exploit and abuse other adults because adults have the capacity for protest.
The thrill, as far as I can analyse the motivations of those who wish to commit such crimes, is to impose their will on another human being.
No doubt if they could they would kill and eat babies, but that would leave them vulnerable to discovery. Therefore sexual abuse is a sensible half-way house of abuse. It is not easily discoverable, especially by those who lack the capacity for speech and it leaves no visible marks on the victim.
With this intractable problem of human depravity, what is to be done?
Instead of passing ever more oppressive and draconian laws (such as banning mobile phones with cameras in creches and assuming every woman who works with children is bent on filming the abuse of children in her care) , I would instead suggest this:
1. Let more mothers have the option of staying home to look after their children.
2. Tax their husbands less so that they can more easily earn enough not to have to compel their wives to go out to work.
3. If child sexual abuse continues apace - 60% of child sexual abuse takes place within their own home apparently - then it will be less distressing for others. Paedophiles will at least be abusing their own children, not other people's.
This would at least stop the international community from getting the impression that Britain is an island of perverts and paedophiles, even if we really are.
There is very little one can do with this paedophile menace as the government tinkers around at the edges.
Either there is an epidemic of paedophilia, fed by Facebook and the Internet, or sadism and exploiting the helpless and vulnerable has always been the bloodsport of the secretly depraved.
They do not exploit and abuse other adults because adults have the capacity for protest.
The thrill, as far as I can analyse the motivations of those who wish to commit such crimes, is to impose their will on another human being.
No doubt if they could they would kill and eat babies, but that would leave them vulnerable to discovery. Therefore sexual abuse is a sensible half-way house of abuse. It is not easily discoverable, especially by those who lack the capacity for speech and it leaves no visible marks on the victim.
With this intractable problem of human depravity, what is to be done?
Instead of passing ever more oppressive and draconian laws (such as banning mobile phones with cameras in creches and assuming every woman who works with children is bent on filming the abuse of children in her care) , I would instead suggest this:
1. Let more mothers have the option of staying home to look after their children.
2. Tax their husbands less so that they can more easily earn enough not to have to compel their wives to go out to work.
3. If child sexual abuse continues apace - 60% of child sexual abuse takes place within their own home apparently - then it will be less distressing for others. Paedophiles will at least be abusing their own children, not other people's.
This would at least stop the international community from getting the impression that Britain is an island of perverts and paedophiles, even if we really are.
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One partial solution would be to make internet service providers legally liable for "publishing" illegal pornographic web-sites. If they can prevent people from using the internet to download music illegally, they can do the same for pornography - and that's a far more serious crime. Publishing pornography is a crime if it's handed over in a brown envelope under the counter so why should ISPs be treated any differently from any high street shop? The law applies - or should apply - equally whether it's printed material or published over the internet.
It is fairly obvious that those who desire to abuse children will do their utmost to create opportunities to do so.
They will try to be employed - or get to know those who are employed - in children's homes, nurseries, & so on.
Their motivation is completely unimportant.
It is not worth thinking about - unless it is to better understand how to recognise and catch such criminals.
In the past such cases that did occur were not openly discussed.
On BBC Radio Four this morning there was a report on the Today programme about the widespread abuse of British children sent to Australia as young emigrants in the 1940s.
There were repeated requests for 'more 9-year olds' - as older children were reported to be more difficult to control.
The Haut de la Garenne former children's hostel in Jersey is being investigated for cases of child abuse going back to the 1960s.
These cases are being investigated now - but they were kept quiet in their day.
The image of Britain abroad is rather less important than setting up effective procedures that will prevent paedophiles getting access to children.
The only way to avoid our children being abused by paedophiles is to look after our children ourselves, surely?
I can think of no other solution that would work.
And if abuse still takes place at least it stays within the family and no one else is troubled by it apart from the victim.
As it is, to go on and on about it probably creates an unhealthy interest in paedophilia.
Since you do not have your mother calling you up from abroad and mocking your country of residence as an island of out of control paedophiles and perverts, no doubt you are not much bothered about Britain's international reputation.
I am though.
It is now so bad that every time I mention a man's name, she would at once ask: "Is he a paedophile then?"
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