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>That scenario is awkward.

You are clearly mistaken. I recently read a paper about people who's jobs involve sitting down and looking at child abuse photos, and then trekking off to the councillor. A few blurry porn videos are nothing compared with that.




It still takes an exceptionally rugged individual to be able to sift through that much of that sort of thing and not want a different line of work.

Though, perhaps like some people that work to clean up extremely gory crime or accident scenes and aren't bothered by it at all, there may be a few that can maintain some kind of separation.


whoa... ok, I didn't know that I'm that naive. Thanks for opening my eyes. Yes now I remember that there are people, behind the cameras that monitor how people are getting tortured.. someone is always doing the dirty job, even when nobody wants to know it.


There are people out there in law enforcement who's job it is to collect child pornography, categorizing and filing it in the hope of identifying the victim and the perpetrator.

When there is a breakthrough and the child gets saved, these people are the heroes that make it happen. However I imagine that for every perp caught there are a dozen more that escape justice... personally I can't imagine doing such a job - it'd tear me up inside to know these people are out there. But someone's got to do it.




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