Child pornography
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Child pornography is pornography that exploits children.[1] It is against the law in many countries.[2] Child pornography is made by taking pictures or videos,[1] or more rarely[3] sound recordings,[4] of children who are wearing less clothing than usual, wearing no clothing, or being raped. It can also be made using illustrations of children. Child pornography is sometimes called "child sexual abuse images" because it is images (pictures) of a child who is being sexually abused.[1] Child pornography can be made by setting up a camera or other recording device and molesting a child.
Child pornography can also be drawn,[5] written,[6][7][8] or created by a computer.[9] In that case, it is called "simulated child pornography",[10] "virtual child pornography",[11] "non-photographic child pornography", or "pseudo-photographic child pornography":[12] the child in the pornography is simulated, virtual, or drawn, meaning the child is not real.[10][11][13]
There are several possible reasons for a person to look at child pornography. The most common is that the viewer is a pedophile, hebephile, or ephebophile who finds minors sexually attractive and uses pornography featuring minors to induce arousal.[14] Viewers may be curious about the subject.[15] Or a person who plans to commit statutory rape may plan to show the pornography to a minor as a form of grooming to convince the minor that minors having sex with adults is normal.[16] Mexico is the largest distributor of child pornography in the world.[17]