May 17, 2011 — It's a recipe for trouble: naive teenagers, predatory adults, and a medium—the Internet—that easily connects them.

by M Ball · 2024 · Cited by 3 — The forum provided an important source of support among a virtual community of people who shared similar sexual interest in children and feel re

... forums. It's the first time that anyone—including journalists and researchers—has gained access to a group of young, non-offending pedophiles. The result is ...

Jun 5, 2025 — Michael Hyde, 53, from Grays in Essex, was active on online chat forums where users shared indecent images and video of children and discussed child sexual ...

Jul 5, 2011 — Joseph Gittings, 26, of Cumming, Georgia, was sentenced to 11 years in prison today for distributing child pornography.

Jun 14, 2023 — Instagram connects and promotes accounts that are openly dedicated to the purchasing and selling of child sexual abuse materials.

As an organisation they are committed to ensuring the safety and wellbeing and have an anti-CSA and anti-child sexual abuse imager stance. They seek to reduce ...

by MR Pedersen · 2023 · Cited by 2 — The stigmatization of people who are sexually attracted to children is a prominent concern for child sexual abuse prevention.

by C Gannon · 2023 · Cited by 38 — Hundreds of these darknet forums are especially dedicated to the exchange of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).

by MR Pedersen · 2022 · Cited by 4 — online anonymous peer-support forums can help prevent child sexual abuse by helping people sexually attracted to minors combat identified r

Oct 27, 2025 — Warning: This story contains discussion of child sexual abuse. A Four Corners investigation has uncovered private forums where predators coach ...

by S Jahnke · 2022 · Cited by 41 — The primary label for people who are sexually attracted to children (“pedophile”) is conflated with sexual offending behavior and tainted

Request PDF | Examining Self-Reported Physical Contact With Minors Among Pedophile Support Forum Users | Minimal research has considered the extent to which ...

May 30, 2016 — Many different sexual behaviors occur online, both weird and illicit. The landscape of sexuality is changing in the digital age, ...

I acknowledge that pedophilia is a mental illness and that it is not a sexual orientation. It's a disease, an unwanted one. I, in no way condone ...

by MR Pedersen — The troublesome or challenging aspect of relying on online forums for people who are sexually attracted to minors to prevent child sexual abuse is that the ...

Feb 23, 2024 — Since the mid-1970s public awareness of child sexual abuse has increased, receiving considerable media attention.

Apr 23, 2021 — When Chris Hughes started removing child abuse images and videos from the internet, almost a decade ago, paedophiles were not discreet.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (``FBI'') estimates that 50,000 child predators are online at any time searching for potential victims. The U.S. law ...

An Overview of Common Features, Typical Course, Shame and Treatment of Pedophilia OCD (pOCD) ... Dr. Jordan Levy is a licensed clinical psychologist in private ...