Perspectives on Child Pornography

In today's modern world, child pornography is seen as terrible, despicable, and disgusting. There are many movements to discourage such actions from taking place, as education for children and legal reinforcement for this crime against children and how we perceive ourselves in humanity. In H.R. 1365 Freedom from Sexual Trafficking Act of 1999, Markup before the subcommittee on international relations house of representatives, on August 4, 1999 serial number 106-62, states "In order to deter international sexual trafficking and to bring its perpetrators to justice, nations including the United States must recognize that sexual trafficking is a grave offense...and must act on this recognition by prescribing appropriate punishment ...by giving the highest priority to its investigation and prosecution..."(pp.13 Section 6 line 13) The overall mentality of what needs to be done is clear, that it must be severely discouraged, and thus stopped.
However, another view point are from those who use the prostitutes. These people remain anonymous, as it is still a crime, even in Cambodia to partake in such actions, although it is pretty much ignored as the police are corrupt and consistantly paid off. In Cambodia shuts down red-light district. Thursday, 23 Janurary, 2003.BBC. Friday, 10 October 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2686963.stm>, it is mentioned that many men pay top dollar to fornicate with a virgin, believing that it will cure them of AIDs, no doubt acquired from previous interactions with prostitutes, as the spread of AIDs is becoming a pertinent issue in Cambodia and other countries with the strong presence of brothels. This speaks of not only the stupidity of the customers, but also the hopelessness of the situation speaking to the young women shanghied by deceit to work.
Child pornography is a subject which renders people capable of one of two radical views, for or opposed. The number for child prositution is slowly dwindling, but it is not nearly enough as thousands of children are subject to it ranging from Russia to Asia and beyond.