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Another scenario that offers much potential for exploitation by the pornographers is the teen girl as babysitter, since here the females are not only younger, but also in the man’s home, and in an employer-employee relationship. Given the multiple power imbalances here, it is no surprise that the teen porn genre is full of sites with titles such as Fuck the Babysitter, Drunk Baby Sitter, Gag the Babysitter, Dirty Babysitter, Babysitter Lust, and Banged Babysitter. While the scenarios may differ at the margins, they are all ultimately the same and tell the similar story of a young hot babysitter who is seduced by an older man.

This desire on the part of users to convince themselves that they are masturbating to images of consensual, thrilling sex explains the narrative found in another popular gonzo PCP subgenre, incest porn. Sites that sexualize and legitimize incest run the gamut of possible incestuous pairings (mother and son, sibling and sibling, extended family, and so on) but without doubt, the most common portrayal is of a father and daughter. While it is clear that any sexual relationship between a father and his minor daughter is rape, the sites go to great lengths to provide the user with an alternative framing of father-daughter incest. This is especially clear on the site YoungDaughter, where the first thing on the home page is the following “explanation”: “The disapproval of incest, especially between father and daughter, is a classic example of ‘projection.’ The alleged reason for diasproval [
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Indeed, if these sites are to be believed, then incest is what happens when a seductive and manipulative “daughter” finally gets her reluctant “father” to succumb to her sexual advances. On the site Daddy’s Whore, the reader is invited to watch “sexy naughty girls seducing their own fathers” and on My Sexy Daughter, the female performers are defined as “sweet, irresistible angels teasing and tempting their own daddies.”
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The site First Time with Daddy asks the user to “check out forbidden love stories,” where sexually curious daughters are eying their fathers’ bodies with lust. A typical story line reads: “I have fancied my father for years. I thought it was a perversion and was afraid to reveal my emotions. . . . Once I saw him in a wet dream. This was a sign. Still half asleep I went into his room and jumped onto his bed.”
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Of course, it doesn’t take much to get the father to acquiesce, and surrounding the text are images of the “daughter” being penetrated orally, anally, and vaginally by the “father.”

In those stories where the father is seen as the active seducer, the girls are generally only too happy to oblige. Once the sexual “relationship” begins, it is clear that the sex is better than either one could ever have imagined. Even in those occasional stories where the daughter is somewhat afraid, the end result is orgasmic sex. In one story a “daughter” explains that “my mom died 3 years ago. Since then dad never brought home a woman. Soon I started noticing very strange looks he gave me. I was even a little afraid. One evening dad came to my room. I was sitting on my bed. He approached me and . . .”
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A sequence of eight images surrounding the text tell the story of a clothed, anxious girl succumbing to the sexual advances of the father and ending up naked and orgasmic on a bed.

What stands out in this story, and indeed in most of the scenarios in these sites, is the absence of a mother to protect the daughter from the father’s abuse. Some of the scenarios, such as the one mentioned above, describe her as dead, but most make no reference to a mother at all, thus creating a family scene where the girl is isolated and at the mercy of the perpetrating father. This lack of a mother is actually not unusual in cases of father-daughter incest. Psychologist Judith Herman found in her study that over half the sexually abused girls she interviewed had mothers who were absent from the daily routine of the family dueto ill health or death. Herman describes the fathers in these families as controlling and patriarchal, noting that “as the family providers, they felt they had the right to be nurtured and served at home, if not by their wives, then by their daughters.”
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For some of these fathers, being “nurtured” extended to being sexually serviced by their daughters, who were turned into surrogate wives, even though they were physically and mentally children. Of course, the real-life consequences of such abuse look nothing like the fairy-tale world of incest porn, since these girls all exhibited numerous symptoms consistent with PTSD.

The reduction of the daughter to an object to be used by the father is most stark on the UseMyDaughter.com site (the banner reads: “Want to Fuck My Daughter?”), which tells the story of a drunken father pimping out his daughter to any man who will pay. The images and the sex in the films are standard gonzo porn, but the stories that contextualize the images tell a tale of economic degradation and poverty, with the way out being the prostituting of a daughter. The text (presented here as posted) introducing the site reads:

Meet my daughter Janessa, she’s 19 years old and like her mom, she is so freakin’ hot. And its no fucking secret to the world that she loves to fuck. What a fucking slut! i think she got that from her mom. God damn her womb is so polluted. aaanyways. My daughter fucks some stupid guys anywhere she goes. I was like WTF!? for free? Shit! I didn’t raise her to get fucked for free! Well, im a bum old, and im always fucking wasted so fuck that, now i let her fuck any guy she wants as long as the guy pays me some cash bucks. . . . Aww fuck that, why dont you hit join now!!! Watch this slut take cocks for cash in my pockets.
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The “daughter,” or slut, as the father constantly refers to her, is depicted as an active and willing player in the scenarios, often leaving her father by the roadside as she speeds off with the latest john. The text makes frequent reference to the father’s drinking and poverty as a way to minimize his culpability in turning his daughter into a prostitute and also finds a way to put the blame on the absent mother by mentioning her “polluted” womb.

All the sites discussed so far, even the gonzo ones, depict scenarios where the men do not use overt force to get the girl to comply with their sexual demands but rather seduce, manipulate, and cajole the girl into submission. This picture actually mirrors what goes on in the real world of child molestation where most of the victims are subject to a seasoning process in which the perpetrator first seduces the child with gifts, affection, calculated acts of kindness, and offers of friendship and/or mentoring. Having forged a bond, the perpetrator then manipulates and exploits the emotional connection to erode the child’s resistance to sexual activity and to ensure the child’s silence. For perpetrators, this is a safer way than overt force since it does not leave visible scars, and because it is an act of breaking the child’s will, the victim is more likely to keep the abuse hidden for fear of appearing disloyal to the perpetrator. Moreover, the bond acts as a kind of emotional glue for the child, keeping her connected even when the adult is perpetrating awful acts of sexual violence. Pornographers are well aware of this seasoning process since they do an excellent job of depicting it in their movies by showing a whole range of techniques: from gift giving to strategic acts of kindness, where the perpetrator poses as a kind (sexual) mentor. Always brazen, the pornographers constantly use the word “breaking” to refer to what they are doing to the girls, and one site even calls itself Breaking Them In.

Probably the most detailed, graphic, and violent example of PCP porn that acts as an instructional manual on how to break a girl is the Cherry Poppers series, produced and directed by Max Hardcore. During a scene from
Cherry Poppers,
volume 10, Hardcore, on finding the younger sister of his girlfriend alone in her house, proceeds to show her “what boys like” and warns her not to tell her sister what happened because “she’ll get mad.”
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Hardcore begins by showing the girl how to fondle his penis, instructing her to “give it a little kiss, don’t be afraid to suck it. Just like a sucker, just like a lollipop.” He continues to instruct her in a soft, gentle voice. She removes her clothes and continues to perform fellatio on him; “Take a deep breath,” he tells her, taking his penis out of this mouth at times to let her breathe. He also shows her how to produce enough saliva to make the oral sex pleasurable for him. After Hardcore puts her on the sink and shaves her pubic area, he penetrates her with his fingers before vaginal intercourse, something rapists of girls often find necessary in order to stretch the child’s vagina so that it won’t be torn or ruptured by an adult penis. He then does the same with her anus. Throughout the sexual activity, Hardcore alternates gentle talk of her being a “good girl” with rougher reminders that she is a cunt. “Say it,” he demands, yelling, and she repeats, not looking at him, “I’m a little cunt.”
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This alternating between being gentle and being abusive goes on throughout the film, and is a strategy pedophiles use to terrify, seduce, and confuse the victim. The very last scene is Max Hardcore taking a picture of the naked and semen-covered girl, as she smiles for the camera.

This is a very telling scene, since studies show that in the real world many child molesters take pictures of their victims to document the abuse for several reasons: (1) to use for their own or other men’s future masturbation; (2) to blackmail the child into silence as they threaten to show the photos to family and friends if the child reveals the abuse; and (3) to show future victims how to perform sex. Max Hardcore’s behavior in Cherry Poppers resembles some of the behaviors discussed by Ken Lanning in his exhaustive study of child molesters, and man watching him may find pointers on how to season a child.

Cherry Poppers, and indeed all the other sites mentioned, is carefully crafted to give the user a sense that the girls depicted are indeed girls and not women. How these images play out in the real world has yet to be researched, since these sites have not been the focus of empirical analysis. What we can explore, however, is how these sites may act as socializing agents for their users by constructing a particular set of ideologies that normalize children as legitimate sexual partners for adult men.

Images and Ideology: The World According to PCP

Once he clicks on these sites, the user is bombarded, through images and words, with an internally consistent ideology that legitimizes, condones, and celebrates a sexual desire for children. The norms and values that circulate in society, which define adult-child sex as deviant and abusive, are wholly absent in PCP, and in their place is the message that sex with children is hot fun for all. As the user clicks on the PCP sites, he enters a virtual community that welcomes him in through constant use of the word “we,” rather than the singular “I” or “you.” Through the use of “we,” it seems to the user that he gets to participate in a ready-made group of like-minded men who actually know him so well they can anticipate his likes and needs, as is shown in the teaser for MySexyDaughter.com: “We know you enjoy rough and bewildering incest action, so we have a very special thing for you.”
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For those men whose primary sexual interest is children, PCP is an obvious first step into the world of child pornography since it is a relatively safe way to access images that can be used for masturbatory purposes. With their use of uninitiated porn performers who look young, the strategic placing of childhood props, and a written text that highlights and sexualizes the girl’s supposed child status, the PCP sites are a workable substitute for those men not yet ready to break the law and open themselves up to possible prison time, not to mention the stigma of being caught with such material. This “community” the user has found by typing into Google a collection of words that speak to his most secret sexual desires plays an important role in validating his feelings and desires, as the sites constantly highlight just how much the object of his lust enjoys the sex.
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For these men PCP sites can be seen as a kind of low-stakes primer nudging, encouraging, and in a way seducing them into joining the club with promises of community, friendship, and understanding—the very things that a nascent pedophile may lack the most. In a perverse way, the sites are seasoning the would-be user in much the same way a professional predator seasons his prey, since they first find out what the mark lacks and then tease and manipulate him into compliance with the promise of fulfilling these deeply felt needs.

Sometime these sites reel in the user by tossing out a challenge to his masculinity, a sure way to get most porn users to bite. Nowhere is this clearer than on the animated incest site that tells men that incest is “an amazing way of learning about yourself and your dearest people!” But then the site tells the user that if “he is not yet brave enough to try,” then the next best thing is “our hand-drawn group incest stories based on totally crazy things real people tried.”
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The implicit question here is: are you man enough to take the first step and masturbate to images that are truly so deviant and transgressive that it takes someone really brave to do the real thing?

While these PCP sites may satisfy the user for a time, desensitization eventually leads to boredom and the need for harder-core and more extreme porn. The obvious next place to go is real child pornography, since here a real child is used and the truly illegal and hence secretive nature of the porn is only going to add an even greater erotic thrill for the, by now, somewhat desensitized user. Quayle and Taylor found in their study of men convicted of downloading child pornography that even the real thing becomes boring after a while, with men seeking out more overtly violent images involving younger and younger children.
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While this descent into utterly abusive and violent child porn is not a given for PCP users, these sites can only serve to whet their appetite for more images of real child pornography since they will always fall short of delivering on their promise of watching a real child turned into a “whore.”