I think that most people hear about people grooming children on the internet through other Media outlets, such as the news etc. If a child goes missing, then you pretty much always then hear on the news how they are checking the child's computer - I personally assume this to mean that they are checking who she has been speaking to online incase she has been groomed by a peadophile. However they could also be looking for anyone she has spoken to online/sites they have been on that will help them find the child.
I think that it's more known for peadophiles to find children online than it is IRL, but there is no proof to say this is true? Well if there is, I havent come across it myself.
I think the internet gives them easy access to children who may be vunerable, but this doesnt mean that they dont also use other methods - because surely by using the internet they are clearlly leaving a trail behind them of what they are doing?
Although it's known to be 'common' that peadophiles groom children on the internet - how often is it actually on the news that this has happened? Not that often really. Is that because they just speak to children and dont lure them into meeting up, or is it because it is not actually as common as one would think it is?
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Well, it would seem that being a priest used to be favourite for men who had socially unacceptable desires for children? And apparently it seems that the frequency was greater than the internet affords?
But I think you're right to be sceptical. In India, the massive population means that there are probably as many people online as in the UK, but there's no scare stories of paedophilia there. This sort of implies that a culture finds its own 'bogeys' wherever it can, because it needs them to be able to construct its norms.
My grand parents married when my granny was 16 and grandad was 15. What was normal then is illegal now. In many countries, 'adults' marry 'children', I wonder if these countries recognise a problem of 'grooming' on their chat rooms/forums?
I guess that if they let 'adults' marry 'children' then they wouldnt notice the grooming etc going on online, because it is the norm for them, so it wouldnt really bother them in the way that it effects our society.
We create moral panicks, and I do believe that internet peadophilia is one of them, I think that the 'worry' of it definately is way over the occurence of it actually happening.
I agree with megan about how in countries like India where severe age differences between couples are not a problem, grooming of children would be difficult to determin.
Most likely it is all a cultural thing, just like IRL, on the online world different countries probably have different ways to prosecute or talk on the news about a certain happening.
The problem here I guess would be if (quite hipoteticly) a 30 year old man from India groomed a 13 year old child in America and it got out, how would he be prosecuted? from the laws in America he would be senteced, jailed whatever, but from the cultural values (maybe even laws I wouldn't know) in India nothing would be done.
The cultural clashes and laws between countires may present a much bigger problem online then IRL.
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