The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is an agency of the United Nations (UN) dedicated to the improvement and promotion of the condition of children. A recent book published by this agency sheds a troubled light on its motivations and principles. The section dealing with pornography contains some truly outrageous and unfounded propositions. Let’s judge.
The document begins by asserting that “the term ‘pornography’ has many legal definitions within different jurisdictions, so it is not always clear across the literature that consistent definitions are being used.”
The text would suggest that exposing children to such abominable content is not really dangerous. Indeed, it explains, “There are several different kinds of risks and harms that have been linked to children’s exposure to pornography, but there is no consensus on the degree to which pornography is harmful to children.”
And further, the report hammers the point home: “The evidence is inconsistent, and there is currently no universal agreement on the nature and extent of the harm caused to children by viewing content classified as pornography.”
One might think we are back in the 1970s and the arguments used by apologists for pedophilia, transposed to sex education…
Trying to make people believe that children can come out unscathed from such visualizations is truly scandalous and absurd. And it is not the surveys of exposed children cited in the report that may contradict this conclusion. It is too well known that the effects are not immediate, and can take years to instill their poison… for life. One day, it is hoped, these promoters of child pornography will have to backtrack, and recognize, as with child abuse, that no serious study can conclude that pornography is harmless, but on the contrary that it is terribly harmful.
The material proposed and endorsed by UNICEF is nothing other than abuse perpetrated on children through a screen. And the harm, without being the same as direct contact, is nevertheless terribly real. Read more…