Peddlers of porno, beware:

This time, you've gone too far

By Peter Arnett

AP Special Correspondent NEW YORK She was just a young child, smiling shyly, when her pictures first began appearing in nudist magazines several years ago. The poses got bolder over the years.

Now, barely a teen-ager, she is the star of a 40-page, full-color magazine called How to Deflower a Virgin.

The Los Angeles Police Department's sexual abuse of children unit has been compiling her picture file over the years. They see her as a victim, not a star.

The emergence of sexual films and pictures of children as the latest kink for pornographers has so shocked some social agencies and citizens groups that they have launched a new front in the long-smoldering war over pornography.

In New York City, where national attention was first drawn in January to child exploitation in commercial sex, the campaign is centered on Times Square, long notorious for its porno houses.

Mayor Abraham Beame and other civic leaders have been making much publicized on-the-scene inspections. Smut districts have been picketed in other East Coast and Midwest cities.

But some observers fear that in all this noise the true victims the children will be forgotten.

The Odyssey Institute, which works with the socially disadvantaged, has

been in the forefront of the campaign against child porno. Fred Cohen, executive director of the institute, said:

"We have come up against civil libertarians who hate what we are doing and take the adult side that there must be total freedom. We don't care what the adult reads but about the trauma to the children involved. The child's rights must have priority."

Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, Odyssey's president, has been barn-

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storming the country with the same message.

"We know psychiatrically how destructive this inappropriate sexualty is to our children. It leads them to join our deviant population of drug addicts, prostitutes, teen-age parents and criminals," she said.

The wide use of children in pornography is only now becoming apparent. Magazines featuring young boys have long been available for the homosexual trade, but in the past

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Here are a few of the pornographic publications which feature photographs of young children.