Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Americans of different stripes, classes, races and professions have embraced Child Porn with an enthusiasm and avidity seldom seen in civilized nations (we won’t discuss India in this post since that fetid landmass is still fertile soil for depredations of every kind).

Cops, top-ranking prosecutors, teachers, Catholic priests, doctors, registered sex offenders, students and a variety of other Americans seem to possess an inextinguishable fire in their loins for young girls.

To borrow from the great 20th century writer Vladimir Nabokov, nymphets (minor girls) are the sparks that seem to light up a lot of American lives in the 21st century.

But never let it be said Americans are discriminatory in their sexual peccadilloes. For when it comes to lusting after, and cornering, children, Americans, particularly those wearing the long habit of priests, have often found solace and unholy release from coercing unwilling young boys into their beds. Catholic dioceses are now paying the price with huge payouts to victims and going bankrupt. Just a decade or two back, there were organizations like NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association) openly espousing their perverted doctrines to anyone who lent an ear.

Passage of tough legislation (Megan’s Law, for example), establishment of Child Predator Task Forces by several states, long prison sentences, universal online monitoring and the stigma and scarlet taint imposed by mandatory sex offender registration with its harsh restrictions after release from prison seem to have little deterrent effect on Americans sighing, lusting and panting after Lolitas.

It’s hard to open an American newspaper or browse through web sites of U.S. Attorneys (i.e. U.S. Justice Department Prosecutors) without stumbling upon loads of reports of reckless Child Porn addicts falling on the sword of their illicit passions.

For purposes of this post, we’ve considered a sample. We dug into the press release sections of U.S. Attorneys in four states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware) and took a random look at a few issues of a bunch of local newspapers on the East Coast.

Between the age limits of nine and fourteen there occur maidens who, to certain bewitched travelers, twice or many times older than they, reveal their true nature which is not human, but nymphic (that is, demoniac); and these chosen creatures I propose to designate as “nymphets.”
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

What is Child Porn?

Lawyers, prosecutors, legislators and the police have knotted themselves into a frenzy with narrow, legalistic definitions of Child Porn to suit their ends.

But from a layman’s perspective, Child Porn covers a spectrum of activities ranging from actual sex with underage children to trafficking them to downloading, producing and trading child porn videos/images to inappropriate contact with children.

In a highly sexualized culture like the U.S. where it’s not uncommon to witness young girls wearing skimpy attire in public and frequent wardrobe malfunctions of entertainers and celebrities, it’s hardly surprising that a lot of adult men should weave their priapic fantasies around young children (anyone less than 18) and even seek to enact them.

Yes, the perpetrators are invariably men and the rare woman is usually a school teacher venturing to teach her young wards subjects outside the curriculum.

Her legs, her lovely live legs, were not too close together, and when my hand located what it sought, a dreamy and eerie expression, half-pleasure and half-pain, came over those childish features.
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Is Child Porn Wrong?

Absolutely repugnant.

Child Porn is inhuman for two reasons:

* It exploits children who although physically ripe (thanks to stuffing themselves with hormone-laden American beef, poultry and milk) are still mentally raw, incapable of serious decisions like giving consent to sex or gamboling with adults in the Eden of lust.

* A society’s worth is measured by the protection it affords to the weakest of its people. America has long abandoned most of its weakest and suffering groups (homeless, mentally sick, prisoners, those lacking health insurance, the poor etc). Fortunately, children are the last vulnerable group America still considers worth protecting.

With awe and delight … I saw again her lovely indrawn abdomen where my southbound mouth had briefly paused; and those puerile hips on which I had kissed the crenulated imprint left by the band of her shorts.
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Child Porn – Estimates

How do we estimate the extent of Child Porn obsession in a society where the veil is tightly drawn over unlawful stormy passions?

It’s not an easy methodological exercise even via national surveys or polls because Americans are hardly likely to be forthcoming on their sexual fantasies involving children – be they restrained to the dark recesses of their their minds, pursued online or actually enacted brazenly – because of potential legal repercussions and social sanctions should such predilections leak out.

Given the challenges of a public opinion survey, one must perforce fall back on secondary data to guesstimate the extent of Child Porn obsession in a society.

Fortunately, and despite the rampant self-censorship of cowering writers, America is still blessed with a vibrant news media. Add to this the mixed blessing of publicity-craving prosecutors and you have an opening into the dark cave of American’s forbidden passions.

One indicator of the obsession with Child Porn or sexual abuse of children is the monotonous frequency of headlines above pictures of sullen White men (occasionally Blacks too) in newspapers allegedly trapped in the web of their fatal desires.

More the headlines relating to Child Porn, one may assume more the incidence of such execrable passions in society (there are methodological hurdles with this assumption too but perhaps the hurdles may be overcome if such incidents continue to occur over a extended period across different states and that indeed seems to be the case).

It took no more than 60-minutes to stumble upon multiple headlines relating to Child Porn in the states of New Jersey and Delaware.

Despite our tiffs, despite her nastiness, despite all the fuss and faces she made, and the vulgarity, and the danger, and the horrible hopelessness of it all, I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise – a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames – but still a paradise.
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Child Porn – Making News

American newspapers have an insatiable appetite for regurgitating prosecutors’ accounts of charges, pleas, arrests, verdicts and prison sentences related to Child Porn or any kind of inappropriate sexual activity involving children.

It’s an easy, cheap way for loss-making, struggling newspapers in the Internet era to fill up space while feeding the prurient cravings of American masses.

Here are a few Child Porn headlines, taken at random from a few American local newspapers in two states on the East Coast:

* Deputy Delaware Attorney General charged with rape of boy May 3, 2014, USA Today
* Old Bridge man pleads guilty to distributing child porn on the internet May 5, 2014, The Star-Ledger
* Felton Man faces rape, child sex abuse charges, May 5, 2014, News Journal
* Sussex man faces child porn charges, May 5, 2014, News Journal
* Milford man faces child porn charges, May 5, 2014, News Journal
* Ex-teacher admits sexually touching 15-year-old West Morris Central student, May 4, 2014, NJ.com
* Englewood man gets 10 years for molesting two children, report says, May 1, 2014, NJ.com
* New Hampshire man charged with sex assault of 12-year-old girl, Bergen prosecutor says – NJ.com
* Northvale man posed as teen girl to collect child pornography, prosecutor says – NJ.com
* Retired cop held for trial on charges of sex with teen – NJ.com
* Bogota man accused of ‘inappropriate sexual activity’ with girl, 13 – NJ.com
* Bogota teacher accused of having sexual contact with eighth grade student, March 25, 2014 – NJ.com
* Kent Man Faces Child Porn Charges – March 24, 2014, News Journal
* NJ church youth group leader accused of sexually assaulting girl, 14, March 25, 2014, The Star Ledger
* Passaic man, 30, charged with child porn distribution,  March 17, 2014, NJ.com
* Sussex County man who lured teen for sex, downloaded child porn, March 2014, NJ.com
* Suspended teacher accused of having sexual contact with 8th-grader, March 2014, NJ.com
* Federal sting leads to rescue of 25 child prostitutes, arrest of 27, Feb 4, 2014, NJ.com
* Cops: Rutgers student had magnets in shoes to destroy child-porn, Jan 17, 2014, NJ.com

It’s a rare day when America’s newspapers don’t narrate the sordid account of another man preying upon another minor girl, downloading a cache of Child Porn or heading out on a tryst with a young maiden little realizing it’s a police officer at the other end of the tempestuous, sexciting chat session.

A few years back, a naive IIT alumnus in Pennsylvania encountered a waiting posse of beefy policemen when he went armed with condoms to ravage the maidenhead of an underage girl who was in reality a police officer orchestrating a meticulous sting. Now the fellow is back in India.

This was a lone child, an absolute waif, with whom a heavy-limbed, foul-smelling adult had had strenuous intercourse three times that very morning.
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Second Source – US Attorneys

Now bear in mind newspaper headlines can sometimes be erroneous.

Reporters are not infallible and despite the best effort of editors, mistakes can occur in copy.

One must always assume newspaper headlines are never indications of guilt.

Innocent people are sometimes arrested by overzealous prosecutors or desperate policemen looking for their next adrenaline rush. Computers are sometimes shared by different individuals and WiFi networks can easily be hacked by wily scoundrels scouting for prurient images of Lolitas.

Taken together, Child Porn newspaper headlines point to a trend but individually never a certainty of guilt.

So we need a second, solid method to assess extent and nature of Child Porn obsession in a society.

Here’s where U.S. Attorneys from the Department of Justice come into the picture.

U.S. Attorneys are federal prosecutors and often take the lead in prosecuting Child Porn crimes in America. Every state has one or more U.S. Attorneys. For instance, a large state like New York has four U.S. Attorneys covering different parts of the state.

Since unbridled ambition is the middle name of most U.S. Attorneys, they thrive on the oxygen of publicity and have their mouth affixed to the teat of press releases touting their (always) great accomplishments.

Given the growth of Internet connections and ceaseless monitoring of Americans by NSA, FBI, state and local police, Child Porn prosecution is a low-hanging fruit for prosecutors, cops and politicians who want to flaunt their tough-on-crime credentials to voters. There’s also the little matter of filling prison beds and keeping semi-literate yahoos as prison guards. Prisons are not only big business in America but also a big, and often the sole employer in the hinterlands of an outsourcing nation.

So a good way of gauging Child Porn obsession is to track press releases put out by the U.S. Attorneys. These press releases cover charges, and more importantly tout guilty pleas, verdicts and prison sentences involving Child Porn crimes. Again, it’s important to bear in mind that charges are not evidence of guilt. Newspapers are rife with accounts of egregious misconduct by overzealous U.S. prosecutors careless of the grief they cause innocent people.

To examine Child Porn in America, we considered four states – New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware – for the period January 1, 2014 through May 7, 2014 and sorted through the press releases of all U.S. Attorneys in these states.

By golly, there’s plenty of Child Porn press releases with enough guilty pleas to fuel the ambitions and promotions of prosecutors and police detectives and the continued employment of an army of prison guards.

I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my marble arms, and moan in her warm hair, and caress her at random and mutely ask her blessing, and at the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again–and ‘oh, no,’ Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure–all would be shattered.
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Child Porn Cases in New Jersey

U.S. Attorney web sites in the Garden State are littered with press statements relating to Child Porn crimes.

The prison sentences are long too in the state for lascivious Lotharios fixated on Lolitas.

Take a deko at some of the headlines put out by federal prosecutors in New Jersey:

* Sussex County, N.J., Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Distributing Images Of Child Sexual Abuse (May 6, 2014)
* Mercer County, N.J., Man Sentenced To More Than 17 Years In Prison For Producing Images Of Child Sexual Abuse (April 22, 2014)
* Middlesex County, N.J., Man Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison For Production, Distribution Of Child Sex Abuse Images (April 22, 2014)
* Burlington County Man Sentenced to 30 years in prison for producing images of child sexual abuse (April 14, 2014)
* Georgia man admits traveling from New York to New Jersey for illicit sexual conduct with children (April 2, 2014)
* New Jersey man sentenced to 10 years in prison for luring teen to Pennsylvania, downloading images of child sex abuse (March 19, 2014)
* Former Hudson County, N.J., teacher sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for distributing images of child sexual abuse over the internet (February 26, 2014)
* Passaic County, N.J., man pleads guilty to possession of images of child sexual abuse (February 24, 2014)
* Union County, N.J., man admits distributing images of child sexual abuse over the internet (February 19, 2014)
* Hudson County, N.J., man sentenced to 10 years in prison for coercing a minor to engage in sexual activity (February 19, 2014)
* Union County, N.J., man admits distributing images of child sexual abuse over the internet (February 19, 2014)
* Cape May county, N.J., man admits transporting minor across state lines for sex (February 6, 2014)
* Four Indicted In New Jersey For Allegedly Trafficking A Minor, Forcing Her To Work As A Prostitute (January 30, 2014)
* Hudson County, N.J., Man Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Distribution Of Child Pornography (January 16, 2014)
* Warren County, N.J., man admits distributing images of child sexual abuse over the internet
(January 15, 2014)
* Monmouth County, n.J., man charged with possession of child pornography (January 15, 2014)
* Union County, N.J., man admits distributing images of child sexual abuse (January 13, 2014)
* South Jersey man admits distributing images of child sexual abuse (January 6, 2014)

It seems no New Jersey county is free from the taint of forbidden longing.

Child Porn Cases in New York

An examination of the four U.S. Attorney web sites in New York state over a four-month period yields several statements relating to Child Porn.

New Yorkers have the same tempestuous longing for forbidden fruits as their New Jersey neighbors.

* Westchester Man Pleads Guilty In White Plains Federal Court To Engaging In, And Videoing, Sexually Explicit Conduct With Seven Different Child Victims, All Under Eleven (May 7, 2014)
* PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK – Man pled guilty to three counts of production of child pornography (May 2, 2014)
* Greenwich, New York – Man pled to one count of receiving child pornography (May 2, 2014)
* Corfu man sentenced for distribution of child pornography (May 1, 2014)
* South Dakota man sentenced for distribution of child pornography (April 30, 2014)
* Clifton Park, New York – Man convicted on the felony offenses of distribution of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography (April 30, 2014)
* Elmira man indicted for production of child pornography (April 25, 2014)
* Pennsylvania man sentenced for producing child pornography (April 25, 2014)
* Long Island Pediatrician Pleads Guilty To Child Sexual Exploitation (April 24, 2014)
* Operator Of 18 Chinese-Language Child Pornography Websites Sentenced To 210 Months In Prison (April 24, 2014)
* Olean man pleads guilty to possession of child pornography (April 2, 2014)
* Registered Sex Offender Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison For Possessing, Receiving, And Distributing Child Pornography And For Transferring Obscene Material To A Minor (April 1, 2014)
* Buffalo man arrested, charged with possession of child pornography (March 31, 2014)
* Utica, New York – Woman plead guilty to an offense charging her with Sex Trafficking Of A Child. (March 28, 2014)
* Teacher’s Aide Sentenced To 50 Years’ Imprisonment For Producing And Distributing Child Pornography (March 20, 2014)
* SYRACUSE, NEW YORK – Man was sentenced on one count of receiving and five counts of possessing child pornography (March 19, 2014)
* Westchester Registered Sex Offender SentencedTo 19 And ½ Years In Prison For Attempting To EnticeA Minor To Engage In Sexual Activity (March 12, 2014)
* Jury convicts Irondequoit man of possessing and distributing child pornography, making false statements (March 10, 2014)
* Wisconsin man pleads guilty to production of child pornography (March 6, 2014)
* Amherst man indicted for possession of child pornography (March 6, 2014)
* Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Arrest Of Brooklyn Rabbi For Distributing Child Pornography (March 5, 2014)
Albany, New York – Man pled guilty to two counts of distribution of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography, and three counts of possession of child pornography (March 5, 2014)
* Tonawanda man pleads guilty to possession of child pornography (February 27, 2014)
* Whitehall, New York – Man pled guilty to receipt of child pornography (February 24, 2014)
* Orange County Man Sentenced In White Plains Federal Court To 13 Years In Prison For Receiving And Possessing Child Pornography (February 21, 2014)
* Greece Man Sentenced for Sexually Exploiting a Child (February 12, 2014)
* Waterloo Man Sentenced in Child Pornography Case (February 11, 2014)
* Akron Man Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography (February 11, 2014)
* Rochester Man Sentenced on Child Pornography Charges (February 11, 2014)
* Geneva, New York – Man was found guilty of the felony offenses of Transportation of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography (February 7, 2014)
* ALBANY, NEW YORK – Massachusetts man arrested for on-line activity with Albany county child (February 7, 2014)
* Glens Falls, New York – Man pled guilty to one count of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. (February 6, 2014)
* Customs and border protection supervisor sentenced for possession of child pornography (January 29, 2014)
* West Seneca man charged with receipt of child pornography (January 24, 2014)
* Chief Of Mount Pleasant Police Department Arrested For Possession Of Child Pornography (January 23, 2014)
* Troy, New York – Man was sentenced to ten (10) years of imprisonment for attempted online enticement of a minor (January 22, 2014)
* Pittsford man sentenced for child pornography  (January 22, 2014)
* Manhattan U.S. Attorney And FBI Assistant Director-In-Charge Announce The Arrest Of Australian Man For Extorting Minors Into Creating Child Pornography (January 17, 2014)
* Geneva man sentenced on child pornography charge (January 8, 2014)
* Former Federal Air Marshal And Border Patrol Agent Sentenced To Ninety Years’ Imprisonment For Sexual Exploitation Of Children (January 6, 2014)

Child Porn in Pennsylvania

Once a strong manufacturing outpost, Pennsylvania is now a vast wasteland outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Meth, unemployment and rampant crime are accompaniments to Child Porn in the Keystone State.

Here, look at some of the Child Porn headlines tom-tommed by Pennsylvania prosecutors over a four-month period:

* Chester County Couple Charged with Sex Trafficking of Two Children (April 30, 2014)
* Federal And Local Officials Announce Charged In Child Exploitation Case (Mark Wilczopolski,et al) | Indictment.pdf (April 25, 2014)
* Catholic Priest Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Possessing Pornographic Images of Boys (April 25, 2014)
* Ordained Minister Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Receiving Pornographic Videos of Children (April 22, 2014)
* Philadelphia Man Convicted Of Sex Trafficking (Rahim McIntyre) (April 21, 2014)
* Easton Man Charged With Possession Of Child Pornography (Matthew Cenac) | Information.pdf (April 16, 2014)
* Former Teacher Sentenced to Prison for Using School Computer to Acquire Child Pornography (April 10, 2014)
* Beaver Falls Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Possessing, Distributing Child Pornography (April 9, 2014)
* Former Carbon County man sentenced to 188 months in prision for receiving and distributing child pornography (April 8, 2014)
* Former Erie Teacher Sentenced To 32 Years In Prison For Child Pornography Offenses (April 7, 2014)
* Uniontown Woman Produced Child Pornography then Shared it with Co-Worker (April 2, 2014)
* Blairsville Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Producing Sexually Explicit Images of Children (March 26, 2014)
* Retired Turnpike Commission Employee Facing Federal Child Pornography Charges (March 12, 2014)
* Erie County Man Charged with Possession of Child Pornography
(March 11, 2014)
* Clarks Summit man charged with producing child pornography and online enticement of a minor (March 11, 2014)
* Pittsburgh Man Possessed Child Pornography (February 21, 2014)
* Erie Man Indicted on Child Pornography Charges (February 14, 2014)
* Waterford Man Possessed Sexually Explicit Pictures and Movies of Children (February 11, 2014)
* Indiana, Pa., Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Possessing Child Pornography (February 11, 2014)
* Luzerne County man sentenced to 15 years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography (February 6, 2014)
* Judge Hands Down Lengthy Sentence To Repeat Child Pornographer (Thaddeus Vaskas) (January 17, 2014)
* Two persons charged with sex trafficking of children and related illegal firearms crimes (February 7, 2014)
* Harrisburg doctor charged with distribution of child pornography
(February 7, 2014)
* Former doctor enters guilty plea to child pornography distribution charges (February 12, 2014)
* Pike County man sentenced to 15 years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography (January 16, 2014)
* Judge Hands Down Lengthy Sentence To Repeat Child Pornographer (Thaddeus Vaskas) (January 28, 2014)
* Phoenixville Man Charged With Distributing Child Pornography (Jeffrey Horn) | Information.pdf (January 17, 2014)
* Pittsburgh Man Charged with Producing, Possessing Child Pornograhy (January 10, 2014)
* Court upholds sentence of former police officer in child pornography case (January 8, 2014)

Child Porn Cases in Delaware

Even a tiny state like Delaware, a blur on pot-hole plagued Interstate 95, had multiple cases relating to Child Porn over a four-month period.

If the spate of recent Child Porn arrests in Delaware are taken into account and if the arrestees are found guilty, Delaware prosecutors can look forward to a bountiful harvest in the coming months.

In what seems to come straight out of a Ripley’s Believe It or Not incident, Delaware’s Deputy Attorney General was so swamped by his illicit passions he yielded to his intemperate longing for the pleasures of a young boy.

* Registered Child Sex Offender Sentenced to 15 Years for Receipt of Child Pornography (April 22, 2014)
* Registered Child Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to Production and Distribution of Child Pornography (Mar 4, 2014)
* Registered Child Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to Receipt of Child Pornography (Jan 16, 2014)
* Twice Convicted Child Sex Offender Sentenced to Over 23 Years for Online Distribution of Child Pornography (Jan 6, 2014)

Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita, Lolita. Repeat till the page is full, printer.
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Child Porn – American Obsession

The sheer number of Child Porn cases brought up by police and prosecutors with unceasing regularity, the guilty pleas and the stiff prison sentences suggest a nation struggling to rein in its fatal priapic impulses.

Given the 300-million population, we can hear naysayers sniggering and belittling our conclusions, the newspaper headlines and the convictions as insignificant footnotes in a highly moral nation.

After all, didn’t Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy among others describe America as the shining city upon a hill, the moral exemplar of the world.

We consider cases listed in the U.S. Attorneys’ web sites or newspaper reports a mere fraction of the actual incidence of Child Porn in American society, the tip of the cliched iceberg.

Why?

Because of wide publicity given to prosecution of Child Porn related cases, wily predators know there’re argus-eyed sentinels waiting to snap the handcuffs on him by snooping on his Internet surfing, or trap him in a sting by posing as a 13-year-old hot girl looking for some excitement. So such predators resort to well-publicized techniques to cover their online tracks. They use TOR, virtual private networks, encryption, underground online forums, chat rooms and clandestine social networks (both virtual and real) to pursue their Child Porn obsessions with impunity.

Prosecutions and investigations by state Attorneys General have also been out of our study. It’s fair to assume they too are working hard to unearth child predators.

We’d estimate that for every Child Porn predator caught, there must be at least 10 who get away given the ubiquity of high-speed broadband connectivity across America and knowledge of anonymizing surfing techniques.

Also, keep in mind that resources of prosecutors and police are not infinite.

So it’s safe to assume with a fair degree of certainty that for every person caught, a lot many are getting away.

Think we’re joking and such things can never be hidden in an open society?

Remember, it took several decades for the accounts of Catholic priests relentlessly, mercilessly sating their lust upon altar boys and other young children to come out. Amen.

We considered just four states and looked at them only over a period of slightly over four months. Multiply that by 12.5 (we do have 50 states) and triple the examining period to 12-months or more. Now the Child Porn picture in America does begin to look like an enduring American passion and a bestial obsession.

Child Porn obsession is now as American as Apple Pie, Hot Dogs, Baseball, iPhones, Drone Attacks, Rampant Inequality and Illegal Mass Spying.

A moment later I heard my sweetheart running up the stairs. My heart expanded with such force that it almost blotted me out. I hitched up the pants of my pajamas, flung the door open: and simultaneously Lolita arrived, in her Sunday frock, stamping, panting, and the she was in my arms, her innocent mouth melting under the ferocious pressure of dark male jaws, my palpitating darling!
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Child Porn – Enduring American Passion

Beneath the glib talk of our leaders, scribblings of our writers, preachings of our church pastors and the vain fantasies of our deluded masses, America is now morally bankrupt.

Only the hopelessly naive would believe America is the “shining city upon the hill.”

Whether this moral bankruptcy, this unending lusting after young Dolores Hazes is a recent phenomenon or was America always this way – merely painting a false picture to the outside world of a moral beacon while recklessly plundering distant lands for oil, cruelly defoliating the countrysides of far-off nations with cancerous Agent Orange or Jefferson-like panting at the sight of nymphets like Sally Hemmings – who can say.

When 44-year-old Thomas Jefferson, beloved founding father and third President of America, fell upon his 14-year-old slave Sally Hemmings in an unrestrained sweating frenzy, thrusting his sceptre, scattering his seeds and despoiling her innocence, is it any surprise that successive generations of Americans should publicly take the moral high ground but privately gambol amid the sullied pastures of Child Porn.

Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet.
– Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita