How The Tabloids Encourage Child Abuse This article will show you how the tabloid newspapers purposely foment and encourage child sex abuse on a massive scale in order to make piles of money from the plight of child abuse victims. They also fuel violence, murder and suicide. ... 1. The vast majority of child abusers and their victims are intimately related in some way. The perpetrators are usually family members, family friends or adults who are closely associated with the victims; e.g. school teachers. In most cases, therefore, the victims do not see their abusers as hostile predators. They see them as nice people. They like them. This is true in about 95% of cases. As such, most victims will not want to see their abusers' lives ruined; especially if, for example, they see the inappropriate behaviour as harmless and/or pleasant. And they will not want to see their abusers labelled as 'disgusting perverts' - as tabloid newspapers tend to portray them. The upshot is that they are less likely to seek help thanks to the tabloids. 2. Indeed, most victims would hate to see their intimates vilified publicly - particularly given that such vilification would undoubtedly have disastrous consequences for their own families and intimate circles. For example, the last thing that most victims would want to see is hostile publicity directed towards their own fathers, uncles or boyfriends etc. Once again, therefore, the antics of the tabloids are going to reduce the likelihood that victims seek help. 3. Publicly identifying abusers very often means that the young victims cannot escape being publicly associated with them. For example, if the abuser happens to be a family member, then the whole family is, effectively, identified. It must be a deeply unpleasant experience for child victims to have to face hundreds of schoolmates - on a daily basis - who have learned that their fathers, uncles etc etc are child abusers. As such, publicity is most definitely not in the "best interest of the child" but is, in fact, seriously damaging to the child. the tabloids are messing up the lives of abused children. Putting it bluntly: In order to make money, the tabloids are, once again, messing up the lives of abused children. 4. Perhaps one of the most disgraceful and disgusting of antics engaged in by the tabloids is the persistent declaration that a child will necessarily be "ruined for life" following sexual abuse. Apart from being untrue, it takes a significant degree of malevolence to tell children that their lives are now ruined as a result of some incident. Would you, as parents, ever tell your children that their lives are now ruined as a result of some incident? Surely not. And yet this is what the tabloids keep injecting into the minds of victims of child abuse. In other words, children who have already suffered abuse, are then told by the tabloids (and by everyone else who now believes this nonsense) that they are now permanently damaged beings. How much more reprehensible can these tabloid editors become? Surely, to attempt to convince an abused child that his or her life is now ruined, is such an appalling thing to do, that it should be regarded as a criminal offence by anyone who cares about our children. 5. The details surrounding child abuse cases as reported in the tabloids might sound horrifying to some people, but for certain types of predatory paedophiles they are likely to be exciting. Furthermore, such details are also likely to arouse inappropriate sexual thoughts in people whose minds have never previously ventured into such avenues. The upshot is that, across the country, the likelihood of child abuse by sexual predators will increase. the hostile hysteria over child abuse causes perpetrators to intimidate their victims into silence much more harshly 6. Persistently and purposely raising the hostile hysteria over child abuse causes perpetrators to intimidate their victims into silence much more harshly; for the obvious reason that the hostile hysteria makes them far more fearful of being caught. In some cases they are so fearful of being caught that they kill their victims. Indeed, we know from the testimonies of many perpetrators who have killed their victims that the main reasons for their killings were to avoid being caught - i.e. by eliminating the witnesses to the events. In other words, child victims are more severely intimidated or even killed thanks to the antics of the tabloids. As such, the behaviour of the tabloids is unconscionable. 7. It is impossible to believe that the hysteria has not deterred millions of men from engaging in circumstances where children are to be found - particularly given the appalling manner in which men are treated following mere accusations. As a result, men are turning their backs on numerous professions - teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers, youth workers etc - and they are also more often avoiding contact with any children. This increasing alienation is not good for men, women, children or society - for many reasons. children also have a civilising effect on men Amongst others things, this alienation removes the influences of ordinary men on our growing boys - leaving our boys somewhat abandoned, unguided and, hence, often anti-social or feral - with similar effects going in both directions - i.e. children also have a civilising effect on men. This leaves thousands upon thousands of our children living in circumstances and neighbourhoods that are completely infested with anti-social behaviour, violence, crime, drug-taking and inappropriate - often unprotected - sex. Sometimes an underworld of endless nastiness and cruelty. This alienation of men reduces considerably the likelihood that men will be able successfully to deal with children, understand them, or be good fathers to them. After all, how are men supposed to learn anything about children if they are too scared to relate to them? It also reduces the chances of single mothers being able to find partners willing to take on their children - or even male friends to help them out - which means that they often have to cope entirely on their own. Furthermore, this alienation of adults reduces the likelihood that adults will even notice that children are being abused; e.g. see The Damage Caused by False Accusations. And it also reduces the number of adults to whom children can turn should they ever want to talk privately about an issue concerning abuse. (For example, if teachers are not close to the children, then the children will not find them approachable with regard to personal problems.) Finally, the hysteria reduces the chances of child porn being reported. (The evidence for this is clear. After all, who wants to admit to having come across such a thing in the current climate of hysteria?) The above factors all increase the incidence of child abuse across the country, and the tabloids bear significant responsibility for all of them. young girls who live in homes wherein the tabloids are read are far more likely to be sexualised at an early age 8. It is surely undeniable that young girls who live in homes wherein the tabloids are read are far more likely to be sexualised at an early age. The Sun and the Daily Mail, for example, are forever lauding and glamorising women (particularly celebrities) for their sexy attire, the scantiness of their dress, their lovely skin, their feminine body parts, their overall shapes and, very often, their lewd behaviours. The message to the young girls who have this kind of material in their homes is very clear. Don't be shy. Be sexy. Wear little clothing. Show yourself off. And people will love you. This kind of thing will affect girls of very young age. Youngsters are always trying to look older and to emulate adults. Twelve year olds want to be like fourteen year olds, who want to be like sixteen year olds, who want to be like eighteen year olds. The upshot is that these young girls are daily encouraged by the tabloids to behave and dress in a manner that is likely to attract sexual attention - not only from paedophiles, but from any young men or boys who happen to encounter them. Indeed, there is nothing 'perverted' about men and boys finding young women or girls to be sexually attractive; especially if they encourage sexual attention. And the tabloids are misleading the public when they are forever suggesting otherwise. Encouraging young girls to become more attractive sexually to millions of men - i.e. not just to 'perverts' - results in a great deal of child abuse Putting it bluntly: Encouraging young girls to become more attractive sexually to millions of men - i.e. not just to 'perverts' - results in a great deal of child abuse and child sexuality throughout the nation. I do not have any doubt that some objective research in this area would show that the children of parents who bring such tabloids into their homes are far more likely to be sexually abused and/or are far more likely to become sexually active at an earlier age. As such, parents who bring such newspapers into the home should be castigated for doing so. And I think that the government should be funding such research if it really cares about our children.. Of course, in a free society, one could argue that freedom of speech is hugely important and that newspapers should be entitled to have their readers constantly drooling over young (often celebrity) women. A fair point. But it does not address the important issue being discussed here - viz, that these newspapers are increasing the amount of child abuse in the country by encouraging children to behave sexually. And their editors should be criticised for this. The tabloids seem to forget that millions of our citizens are little things with sensitive minds and immature thought processes The tabloids seem to forget that millions of our citizens are little things with sensitive minds and immature thought processes - beings who need to be protected from hostile psychological onslaughts and from temptations to head off into sexual pathways that are difficult to negotiate - pathways which can often lead to serious problems. And so these tabloids should not be viewable by impressionable youngsters, in my view. For example, they should not be on display in areas frequented by children, and they should certainly not be brought into homes where young children can read them. I am not suggesting that their "freedom of speech" should be curtailed, merely that it should not be so readily available to our youngsters. An oft-used but rather weak counter-argument to this view is that, with the internet, children can seek to access, or stumble upon, such material with ease, so why point a finger at the tabloids? But this argument fails in practice. Firstly, it is not true to say that children cannot be protected by using filtering software or various other devices that are being developed. They most certainly can be protected to some significant extent with these methods. Secondly, responsible parents can ensure that their children aged, say, 12 and under, do not have the opportunity to roam freely on the internet. Thirdly, even though some children will seek to access, or stumble upon, inappropriate material on the internet, this situation is completely different from them seeing this material lying on the kitchen table on a regular basis - something which would endorse the 'sexy lifestyle' being depicted. The most popular newspapers in our UK prisons - most popular also among violent prison inmates and predatory paedophiles - are the tabloids 9. The most popular newspapers in our UK prisons - most popular also among violent prison inmates and predatory paedophiles - are the tabloids; with the Sun being #1 in the UK, judging by what one forever sees inside prisons and on Police TV shows. I do not have any doubt that this is something that needs to be looked at - because it seems to me that the tabloids are far more culpable when it comes to promoting violence, predatory sexual behaviour and criminality than is, say, general porn that can be found on the internet. But, once again, I am not arguing for a clampdown on free speech. On the contrary, I am saying that we should use our own free speech to counter the continual purposeful hate-stirring of the tabloid press. ... In summary. The tabloids are far more interested in making money by persistently making a fuss about the few perpetrators who get caught, and far less interested in protecting children. They strongly discourage the vast majority of victims from seeking some kind of help by threatening them and their intimate abusers with publicity and hostility. They seriously damage further all victims of child abuse by persistently indoctrinating them with the view that they are now damaged for life - which is just not true. They fuel the general public's sexual interest in children and incite fantasies of child sex in the minds of paedophiles. They encourage child abusers to intimidate, harm or even kill their victims in order to silence them. They cause millions of decent adults to turn their backs on children - with the effects of this causing numerous problems for children and for society as a whole. They go out of their way to sexualise young girls; thus making them - particularly teenage girls - much more sexually attractive to millions of men. Indeed, if they sexualise 50 girls, 500 men will notice them. (Just another example in the Daily Mail August 2014 One of the most popular cam girls, LittleRedBunny, rakes in $4.99 per minute. Top earners like her can end up making $1million a year. Do you really think that the Daily Mail cares about youngsters?) The fact that the tabloids are the most popular newspapers among violent offenders and sex offenders should tell us something.