On Mon, 12 May 2008 21:06:12 +0100, Alex Heney
wrote:
>>So what connection *have* you suggested?
>I have suggested only that *on average*, the type of person who is
>interested enough to look at images they know to be illegal is *more*
>likely to be interested enough to take the further step of what is *in
>law* regarded as .ual assault.
I do not believe that the probability is any greater of a person who
looks at child . committing an actual .ual assault than a person
who looks at adult ..
>That is NOT to say they are likely to do so, just a little less
>unlikely, nor is it to suggest they are even more likely to carry out
>what they would see as a physical assault.
>But AIUI, in most cases of . with children, the adult concerned has
>managed to believe that the child actually wants it, so they don't
>think of it as "assault".
AIUI many rapists also believe that their victim "wanted it".
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