Is there a child porn explosion happening? There are over 100,000 websites dedicated to child porn. It's a multi-billion dollar industry. Over the past 13 years the number of child pornography offenders has increased by 1,500%. Do you think the Internet has anything to do with that increase? I do. Look at just some of the news articles published on child porn arrests in just a 3 day:

-Gray woman pleads guilty to child porn charges (April 4, 2009)

-Drexel Hill woman gets 30 years in child porn case (April 2, 2009)

-Field hockey coach gets 40 years for child porn (April 2, 2009)

-Issaquah woman sentenced in child porn case (April 3, 2009)

-Glouco dispatcher charged with child porn (April 3, 2009)

-Oregon man gets 17.5 years in child porn case (April 3, 2009)

-Acton man convicted of child porn possession (April 3, 2009)

Children as young as 10 months old were used in some of the child porn videos discussed above. That's disturbing and heart breaking. If child porn was given its proper title, “child rape”, maybe it would happen less. The stigma that used to be associated with the word “Porn” is being lost. But the word “rape” hasn’t lost its stigma. Sex with children is never consensual, it’s rape. Child rape.

People that get into watching child rape often stumbled into it while viewing other Internet porn. And, as tends to happen with porn, it often takes more deviant forms of porn to give people the same adrenaline rush. For some watching child rape fits the bill. It’s a sad progression and it’s one that’s not limited to men. Look at the articles above and you’ll see 3 of them involve women.

So what does this mean for parents? If your children gets into Internet porn there's a good chance they’ll run into child porn. That’s shocking in it self but how will they react to it. Could they possibly get hooked on it like others have? Will they grow up to be potential pedophiles? Will we read about their arrest in the newspaper? If those thoughts don’t get you to do everything you can to protect your children from Internet porn then I don’t know what will.