Pornography and the Organization of Intra- and Extrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse: A Conceptual Model (From Out of the Darkness: Contemporary Perspectives on Family Violence, P 58-79, 1997, Glenda K. Kantor, Jana L. Jasinski, eds. - See NCJ-171756)

• NCJ Number: 171760
• Author(s): C Itzin
• Date Published: 1997
• Length: 22 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter reviews the research and clinical literature on the nature and extent of pornography and organized abuse.

Abstract

The chapter examines data on the incidence and prevalence of child sexual abuse, child pornography, prostitution, and the international traffic in women and children. It uses a case study to explore the phenomenology of being used in and abused by pornography as a child. This perspective allows a researcher to see the processes by which child sexual abuse is organized inside and outside of the family and the role of adult and child pornography in the abuse. The chapter includes a discussion of some characteristics of pornography and child sexual abuse extrapolated from the case study, including gender, intra- and intergenerational patterns of victimization, coercion and compliance, pornography and prostitution, and the function of incest as a form of "pimping" for the perpetrator(s) within the family and as grooming for extrafamilial abuse. Figures, references