What is certain is that providers of porn feel the
need to constantly 'refresh' their supply. So new
victims are drawn in every day. This is just as true
on the internet as it is in the world of magazines and
video. However, what many people fail to realize is
how - by visiting their websites - we directly and
effectively subsidize pornographers. This is true
whether we do so unwittingly or deliberately, out of
curiosity or a vigilante spirit.
...
It is not to suggest that every one of them [casual
visitors to child abuse sites] was 'hooked' as soon as
they found a porn site professing to display
underage subjects, it is to say that because their
visit was undoubtedly recorded by the site or sites in
question, the pornographers who run those sites would
have found validation and commercial promise for their
activity. They would then have redoubled their efforts
in that area.
Pete Townshend, "A Different Bomb" Jan. 2002
The connection between visiting, much less paying to
visit, a web site featuring images of child abuse and
the real abuse of the children pictured is much more
direct than the negative consequences from buying
drugs and other illegal activity. Pete, at least at
one point, understood this. Its not terribly
difficult to grasp. Unless one is in denial.
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