"The U.S.A. is in this sense, "superior" as civilization to at least continue to contend with the protections of some degree of public decency. I think most of Europe stopped trying a while ago, certainly Paris and the Netherlands did."
My point is that they don't have to have registers of sex offenders and such because they don't have near the problem with it that we do. I'm not drawing any specific conclusions here about why that is, I'm just saying that doesn't make any sense to me. I would expect our society to be better in this regard.
Does Europe even make note of "sexual offenders" unless and/or until they are exceptionally offensive?
I mean, there certainly is an area of interest there as to the discrepancy but immediately I'd examine how the issue is even noted or not between the two continents. It just might be that there are more or parallel events among all human cultures, civilizations as to sexual offending but that one culture is making more note of the problem than others, and/or that others make note of it but do not regard it as a problem, while we and some others do.
I'd have to look over the reporting problem. I tend to believe that most behaviors such as sexual predation upon children, particulalry, is something that is aberrant behavior known to our SPECIES not to our COUNTRIES. It's not "country-related," so to speak, but is, rather, species related.
Thus, wherever humans are, the same percentage of sexual deviations, predators will exist. Pornography is regarded as sexual deviation by many people, despite the otherwise "it's harmless" explanation that some apply to it. Differences in reporting account for the differences in noticable statistics, but the acts themselves are almost certainly occuring in the same percentages of THE HUMAN POPULATION, regardless of, generally, country of residence.
It's a human problem/area of concern, not a problem of country or continent.
Similar to any other aberrant behavioral one, unless and until it's established that people are made aberrant by special politics of some sort: Russian bolsheviks determining religious beliefs represented "insanity" and sending massive numbers of citizens to incarceration if and when they were deemed to hold Christian beliefs.
All human societies, however, revile and object to sexual contact with children and many to pornography so I strongly doubt that the U.S. as a civilization and country is the only group who does.