Online Sexual Predators
Online Sexual Predators The internet is one of the most important technological advancements of the 21st century and its increasing effects can be easily observed. Most of the consequences of the Internet have been beneficial and created a whole new realm for means of communication. The internet has allowed people from all over the world to communicate and exchange information in the blink of an eye opening up a virtual world for us to live in. With all these people communicating online through forums, social networks, chat rooms, and other endless ways, it is become impossible to determine who is who. There is no answer to this simple question because through the internet people are living multiple lives. It sounds very appealing to live one life in the real world, yet live a polar opposite life online that usually compensates for the first life. Just like in the real world, we have the “bad guys” who exist in the virtual world as well. There are a variety of criminals and frauds online but one of the types of “bad guys” that are rampant throughout the internet are sexual predators and pedophiles.
Sexual activity had greatly increased after the internet came about allowing easy access to pornography and other explicit web sites. This rise has sprung about many online sexual predators as well. A sexual predator refers to a person who is trying to make sexual contact with another person in any manner. The reason they are called predators, similar to real predators, is that they try to hunt down people for sex usually online. Keep in mind that this is different from a sex offender who has actually offended someone sexually. A sexual predator will just try to seek out sexual situations, for example when a man goes to a bar trying to get consensual sex from adult females. Sexual predators are very common on the internet. This should be obvious since that is where mass and easy communication takes place between the world, and it is easy to find prey for them. A
Sexual activity had greatly increased after the internet came about allowing easy access to pornography and other explicit web sites. This rise has sprung about many online sexual predators as well. A sexual predator refers to a person who is trying to make sexual contact with another person in any manner. The reason they are called predators, similar to real predators, is that they try to hunt down people for sex usually online. Keep in mind that this is different from a sex offender who has actually offended someone sexually. A sexual predator will just try to seek out sexual situations, for example when a man goes to a bar trying to get consensual sex from adult females. Sexual predators are very common on the internet. This should be obvious since that is where mass and easy communication takes place between the world, and it is easy to find prey for them. A
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