Child Exploitation

Child Exploitation

Jasmine Soto

University of Phoenix

BSHS/407

                                                        March 30, 2015

                                                         Elizabeth Nyang

Introduction

   Child exploitation is the sexual exploitation of children under the age of 18. Exploiting children is when you are using their pictures, making videos, and using their bodies to be used for sexual pleasures and or acts. This means taking nude pictures, making videos of them doing something to themselves or someone else doing something to them, and allowing others to partake in sexual acts with that child via prostitution and running a sex operation where you allow others to pay for their time with that children doing whatever they want to do with that child regardless of what the child says or feels. In my paper we will discuss the effects that exploitation has on children via child pornography, child prostitution, child labor, and how technology has enhanced child exploitation (Wallace & Roberson, (2014).

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Child Pornography

Child pornography can affect a child in many ways from psychological distress, physical pain and fear, sense of hopelessness, confusion, and misguided love. A child who has to endure this will have social issues; they will not trust easily and feel as though everyone is out to hurt them. Sometimes these children feel as though this is something that is supposed to happen and that it is ok despite the pain and agony they feel, they will often block it out and continue to partake in these things because they know nothing else. Child pornography is an underground thing because it is highly illegal; those who search the web and look for child porn will often flag their computers so that the government agencies who are watching these sites can arrest those who are partaking in it.

                                                        Child Prostitution

Child prostitution occurs between the ages of 11-18, however there are cases of babies from age three months and up. Children that are in prostitution will come from broken homes and or who is rebellious against their parents (for many and or no reason at all). Men will come along an bribe the child with the essentials they are in need of love, a home, food, and if they are drug addicted he will promise to get them their fix. Once the child is in his possession he will often do good by them in the beginning, until he knows he has them where he needs them, it will often start with providing him with sexual pleasures and then will move to other avenues of prostitution from have various men pay to sleep with them, selling them to another pimp for more money and or another girl. The effects is the sense of feeling a misguided love, fear is very evident in a child in this field, and hopeless that any one in their family would find and rescue them. There are so many children in prostitution and many will continue to prostitute as they get older because they are used to it and that is all they know. The biggest goal is to get these children to understand what they are doing is not normal, it is bad, and they can live happier lives with therapy. In society today a child is being prostituted out is not being recognized by government officials, instead of getting the child help and locating their parents, they often just arrest them and give a criminal history instead. These children try so desperately to reach out by telling the men sleeping with them that their age and to help them but they do not get the assistance from them they need and instead of helping they just tell the guy they paid what the child says and it ends in the child being beaten or traded so that they do not get busted by police.