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CW:Child abuse. Vast pedophile network shut down in Europol’s largest CSAM operation
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anecdotal but i'd say 1% is probably a pretty stark underestimate. i've known dozens of victims in my lifetime alone, and those are just the ones willing to talk (to me) about it. if you include the ones who were over 13 when they were abused it might well crack 100. even if you account for how trauma survivors sometimes seem to have a knack for finding one another it's still fucking bleak beyond measure.
I have to agree from my own anecdotal experiences as well. I think it's not something we can solve by -just- trying to catch/lock them all up because there are so many. I think it's something we really only solve with socialism with doing away with the capitalist family dynamic, with community, with healthcare (including identifying early those pre-disposed and medicating and monitoring), with changing the culture, the superstructure. Not to say it'll solve it of course but I think that's the only way we begin to really put a major dent in it which is again just another example of how only liberation from capitalism can bring about other kinds of liberation and lessening/abolition of forms of exploitation.
My own view, perhaps controversial, is that pedophilia is not a "real" mental condition, but is in fact entirely produced by the norms of cisheteropatriarchy. Thus as Earth enters socialism and progresses towards communism, and more and more vestiges of patriarchy are dismantled, the whole phenomenon of pedophilia will eventually quite literally be driven to extinction as a sort of "habitat destruction" leaves the phenomenon with no chance to reproduce.