"According to Henry Boatwright (Chairman of the U.S. Advisory Board for Social Concerns), approximately 70 percent of the pornographic magazines sold end up in the hands of minors. Women Against Pornography estimate that about 1.2 million children are annually exploited in commercial sex (child pornography and prostitution)."
Now how can they possibly know that? The WAP's ESTIMATE that 1.2 mil kiddies are involved. Based on what?
Specious and unsupported claims like these make me wince.
I am also increasingly leery of terms like "linked", "has ties with or to", "coupled". and any of the myriad words, terms and phrases that indicate they are basicly guessing with very little empiracal data.
And its not just this issue, btw....
In the mean time, a hearty "So what?" from one of the millions who uses porn and does not rape other men, women or small children.
Child pronogrpahy is illegal, but how many kids are forced into it every year? A few hundred, maybe. Even if the remaining 1.19 or so million number is correct (which I seriously doubt, unless prostitution includes giving your boyfriend a bj so he'll buy you clothes), you're probably talking about runaways, addicts and street kids who turn to prostitution. Sad, tragic, but that has nothing to do with pornography.
More to the point, who the hell is Henry Boatwright and the "U.S. Advisory Board for Social Concerns"? Google doesn't reveal anything about either of those entities, so for the moment, I'm rather skeptical that they even exist, nevermind how reliable their supposed information is.
Good catch. An outfit that puts out such obviously bogus statistics (whoever they are; I never heard of them before) has about as much credibility as the alien abduction wackos.