Why language matters: why we should never use child pornography and always say child sexual abuse material
Last October, Prajwala, a Hyderabad-based NGO that rescues and rehabilitates sex trafficking survivors, came across some disturbing footage of child pornography on the internet. When Sunitha Krishnan, co-founder of Prajwala, went to meet a child featured in it, she expected a scared, silent, suspicious person. She would chat with a close friend online, someone her parents assumed was from school. Nothing prepared…
