'No prosecution for paedophiles watching child porn says law reform group'

I’m not sure if paedophilia has increased significantly or not in the internet age or not. It’s not new of course but there do seem to be some people who have been drawn into it or drawn themselves into it who may not have done so previously but moving up the pervert curve or whatever.

I don’t say this to justify it and it’s immoral as much today as in the past but the police and authorities are in a bind because they’ve aware through the internet there there are 100s of thousands of potential people. One assessment was 170,000 possible dodgy accounts which may include multiple ones but they’ve probably missed others so who knows what the figure is which makes it not as unusual and rare that people think.

Obviously I’m not being helpful here but there is no way this country could deal with this level of sickos if it was possible to successfully convict them all without going on a massive prison building spree and no doubt some would complain (I wouldn’t). It’s also not really possible to cure or rehabilitate people as it’s an innate fetish. Obviously not all would grab people off the street but doubt anyone would be comfortable with these folk being amongst us and abuse on the internet is real abuse and happens largely because of these lot.

I’ve no answer. It’s scary. Whether there’s an epidemic or it’s always been just as prevalent who knows but it’s very difficult for any government to do anything about it without a huge change in philosophy and making a commitment to significantly increase the prison population