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China Focus: China's vigilante pedophile-hunters expose dark side of cyberspace

Source: Xinhua| 2018-02-07 20:23:31|Editor: Mengjie

BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) – Last month, a microblogger known as "Hacker Kevin" received a message from a social media follower, accusing a man in northern China surnamed Li of being a child molestor.

Kevin quickly dug into Li's social media accounts and discovered photos of him kissing young boys, chat records showing how he groomed children, as well as him boasting about his behavior.

After blurring the faces of the victims to protect their privacy, Kevin posted the evidence on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, and alerted the local police. Three days later, Li was arrested.

Kevin, who has 780,000 followers on Weibo, has been using social media to hunt and expose pedophiles for more than a year. He is among a group of online vigilantes waging war against online child pornography and pedophiles.

"You may call me a busybody but I have made stopping child porn my mission, and I will stick with it until the end," Kevin says.

An investigation by Xinhua reporters uncovered a large network in China's cyberspace making huge profits by selling child pornography on various platforms, from members-only forums and private social media groups, to live streaming websites and gaming communities.

In one private social media group, those who paid 50 yuan (7.5 U.S. dollars) could become members and access pictures and videos of pornography. The group had nearly 2,000 members by the time it was exposed.

Those who paid 333 yuan a month could become VIP members, and they could not only watch child sex acts live, but also negotiate transactions with agents to engage in sex acts with children. The agents all used pictures of children as their profile photos.

Chat records obtained by Xinhua between a potential customer and an agent showed a sexual act with a young boy cost 2,000 yuan.

In recent years, Chinese authorities have intensified efforts to crack down on illegal online activity against children.

The National Office Against Pornographic and Illegal Publications said that Internet enterprises and individuals who had produced or distributed child pornography were severely punished in 2017.

Last month, the office exposed details of five typical cases uncovered during the crackdown on online pornography.

In one case, police in Zhengzhou City, central China's Henan Province, arrested Wu Pengsheng and three associates for distributing photos and videos of child pornography on a profit-making website.

The case was first revealed last August by an online crusader known as "Xiao Dang." Tipped off by a follower, Xiao registered on Wu's website and collected a large amount of evidence showing him profiting from child pornography. Xiao was also able to uncover personal information about Wu through his email address and alias.

Xiao then posted his findings on Weibo, which soon generated over 10,000 forwards and nearly as many comments, causing huge public uproar. Local police immediately arrested Wu.

A police investigation found that from 2011 to August 2017, Wu and his associates lured more than 100 juveniles to film indecent videos under the guise of "child education."

They then distributed the videos online and raked in over 500,000 yuan. They have been transferred to prosecution authorities.

For those crusading against child pornography, like Kevin and Xiao, these high-profile cases only account for a small part of their work. More often than not, their reports end up leading nowhere.

Kevin says that though local police are quite diligent in pursuing such cases, the anonymity of the Internet makes busting online rings and securing evidence difficult.

"Online suspects are experts in using guerrilla warfare to dodge cyberpolice. It is very difficult to make coordinated arrests when the illegal activities are committed across regions or borders," Kevin says.

"Child porn suspects are very good at exploiting loopholes or grey areas in law to avoid punishment," said Zhang Hongwei, a professor with Jinan University who specializes in juvenile and family law.

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http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-02/07/c_136956805.htm

>>10507750

Pedophilia from the Chinese Perspective

Emil M.L. Ng

Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

In traditional Chinese medicine, there has never been a mental disease called pedophilia (or an equivalent term), or homosexuality, or most of the other so-called sexual variations for that matter.

Depictions of “child-romance” in ancient or modern Chinese literature are not difficult to find. They include passages on joyous heterosexual or homosexual activities by children as young as 12 to13 years old with one another or with adults. Children are usually described as natural sexual beings and erotic stimulation and sex-play are seen as beneficial to their healthy development (Chen 2000).

In China, the current minimum legal age for sexual intercourse is 14 for both sexes and marriage age 22 for males and 20 for females. However, in ancient China when population control was not a concern, the age was quite low. For most of Chinese history, the minimum marriage age suggested by the government had ranged between 12 and 16, and it was not legally binding, especially in the wealthy classes or in certain ethnic minorities. Until the first half of the last century, there was still the practice of the “child bridegroom” in, but not restricted to, the Hubei region of China (Lou 1970). A male child of any age, even before birth, could by parental arrangement take an adult woman as a wife. The purpose could be to consolidate family status and relationship, or simply to have someone to help taking care of the child. After marriage, the couple slept in one bed like all other husbands and wives. No one would pay attention to what type of sexual relationship they might have and when. In the normal course of events, they would begin with those sex plays they were capable of and wanted, until one day, when the child was old enough to desire and do it, they had coitus. After the boy grew still older, he usually took a second wife closer to his age, but he would continue to keep, love and respect the first wife. .

Some writers very vehemently question the capacity of children to give valid consent to sexual activity with adults. Despite their arguments, to the Chinese - who are particularly conscious of the importance and priority of social (and hence adult) values - the focus of discussions on the child consent issue in pedophilic activities is blatantly irrelevant and hypocritical. Even in the Western culture where individual human rights are strongly emphasized, how often do adults try to ascertain valid consent from their children before getting them to do most things? Have the adults sought valid consent from their children before baptizing them soon after birth? Or, when their children express by words or actions that they do not want to eat, sleep, play games with adults, or go to school at certain times, do the adults not use reward, threat, punishment, persuasion, luring, seduction, deception or any other workable means to manipulate them back to the ‘right track’? Have the adults ever explored and studied the ‘trauma’ that may be caused by forcing all those ‘good’ things to their children without their valid consent? There are certain occasions when the adults do respect the children’s wishes and ask for their consent, but only when the choices are within the adult acceptable range.

Hence, the seemingly righteous and humanitarian debate on child self-determination and consent in sexual matters is just another game that adults play to impose their own values on children. For most of those everyday activities adults assign to children, debates on child consent are considered irrelevant and are simply forgotten for parental conveniences. Indeed, when it comes to a child’s sexual activity, the debate begins only because not all adults have the same values. In spite of what the debaters on one side may say, it does not follow that they are actually more concerned with the rights and welfare of the children than the other side. Both sides merely selct and exploit the issue of children’s rights to support their own needs and preconceptions about childhood sexuality.

Obviously, this comment is not meant to discourage debate on child sexual rights. Such debates will continue to give insight to the kind of sexual politics adults play and elucidate the true meaning of children sexual rights and their capability to give consent. People just have to be reminded that, no matter which side they take on the issue of pedophilia, the debates by themselves will not alleviate any moral discomfort they might have concerning child autonomy.

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https://www.ipce.info/library/web-article/pedophilia-chinese-perspective

>>10507781

Do pedophiles exist in China?

1 Answer

Ben Kirssen, I am a pedophile.

Updated October 16, 2017 · Author has 51 answers and 300.7K answer views

Yes. China has somewhere between 5 and 10 million pedophiles. That is 100 to 200 football stadiums full of people. That makes China the country with probably the highest number of pedophiles in the world.

The estimate is that 1 to 2% of the male population is a pedophile (1) . In 2009 the male population of mainland China between the age of 15 - 64 was: 495,724,889. (2)

The number of pedophiles would therefore be somewhere between 5 and 10 million.

https://www.quora.com/Do-pedophiles-exist-in-China