You have a complete lack of understanding of the world of modern child pornography. In the probably futile attempt to give you truthful information to base your beliefs on, I will enlighten you. Although for profit child pornography production and distribution are not unheard of, they are quite rare in modern times. I will tell you the simple facts. Please don't take what I say to mean that I minimize the immorality of child molestation, as this is not the case. Also you will be incorrect if you assume that I am a pedophile or have any sexual interest in viewing naked prepubescents. It would be a lie for me to say that for profit child pornography production and distribution have never existed. Several decades ago, prior to child pornography being made illegal and prior to widespread use of the internet, the majority of child pornography was produced by commercial studios and distributed for profit. After child pornography was made illegal in the United States, it quickly became extremely rare until the internet started to become more mainstream. Production studios shut down and there were no safe distribution channels, although I believe there were some mail order services that advertised in magazines (the postal inspectors were at this time the primary agency that combated child pornography). With the rise of the internet child pornography made a substantial come back. Private networks of traders came into contact and distributed images amongst themselves, the wonderland club is one of the earlier such groups that I am aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cathedral . Of note is the fact that it did not cost money to join the wonderland club. At the time a large percentage of child pornography was distributed in this fashion, freely over private forum based groups and on Usenet as well. One of the more modern for profit child pornography production and distribution groups was LS studios (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Ukrainian_child_pornography_raids). Most of the modern production studios have been based in Eastern European countries and produced softcore images. They have been responsible for the vast majority of modern for profit child pornography, producing millions of images with thousands of children. It is worth noting that these studios placed advertisements for 'models', paid the children who signed up, and had as much consent from the children as a child can give (which you may say is zero, but I find a distinction exists between photographing a naked child against their will and photographing them naked without them attempting to resist, although both may very well be immoral there is a difference). Additionally, they had the consent of their parents. In many cases the images they produced may not be what most people think of when they imagine child pornography. In some cases it would not be much of a stretch to compare the images to photographic versions of the famous paintings of naked prepubescent angels, with props used in an attempt to create this effect ( an example of such a painting: http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v0/618796241/100-hand-painted-wall-art-high-quality-Bouguereau-font-b-angels-b-font-font-b-oil.jpg). A more fair comparison may be to the infamous brooke shields photographs, which were taken by a professional photographer with her and her mothers consent when she was I believe ten years old. These photographs have been determined by the courts as legal in many jurisdictions including the USA, and have even been in museums (with limited success, frequently they have been pulled after overwhelming complaints). The following article has a cropped image and a bit of background story, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/6248757/Brooke-Shields-photographer-disappointed-by-police-pornography-claim.html. , the entire set is available here https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/brooke-shields-by-gary-gross/ (please note that although these photographs are beyond a doubt legal in the USA and many other countries, they may be considered child pornography in others. Click at your own discretion, there is nothing legal that more closely approximates softcore child pornography). Many people arrested with child pornography are arrested with images similar to this, but which have not had the blessings of the US courts. All of the Eastern European production studios and the distribution networks stemming from them were shut down in the late 1990 s to mid 2000's. Although there have certainly been countless small scale for profit production operations since then, they have accounted for an extremely small percentage of the total amount of newly created child pornography. Skip ahead to the later 2000s and there is no police knowledge of ANY organized for profit distribution or production of child pornography. In 2010 virtually the entirety of commercial child pornography distribution was managed by a single group of Eastern Europeans (who managed hundreds of websites), and it was shut down by Interpol, virtually eliminating the existence of commercial child pornography distribution. They had a total of 30,000 customers which accounted for almost all known customers of commercial child pornography in the entire world at the time. As far as I can remember they were purely distributors and not involved with production at all: http://www.kshb.com/dpp/news/local_news/investigations/lawrence-and-leavenworth-cases-linked-to-massive-worldwide-child-porn-dragnet And really that article sums up the state of modern for profit child pornography production and distribution quite well. Although it is probably not entirely extinct, any existing for profit distribution operations are extremely small scale, account for probably less than 0.5% of total child pornography distribution. There are no known for profit studios or organized studios at all, and there have not been for many years now. This is not to say that absolutely nobody in the world produces child pornography and tries to sell it, it is just that this makes up such a tiny percentage of newly created child pornography as to be virtually insignificant to the global market (which is also virtually non-existent if you take market to mean people paying money for child pornography). Let's contrast the ~50,000 (adding 20,000 to be a conservative estimate, considering some people probably got away and there are probably other underground yet small for profit channels) known buyers of child pornography IN THE WORLD between 2009 and 2010 with the amount of child pornography distributed for free over public peer to peer networks. over 30 months in the mid 2000's, a single P2P monitoring operation identified 30,000 IP addresses in a single state offering child pornography for free. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040803930.html As you can see, in a single TOWN of only 23,000 people, there were 1,058 KNOWN computers on a single P2P network that were offering CP completely free of charge and completely publicly to anyone who typed in the keywords and downloaded it. And this was in 2005, and since then the technology they use to scan P2P networks has improved vastly and the numbers of detected systems has shot up to many times as many. There are currently MILLIONS of computers around the world offering MILLIONS of CP images free of charge on P2P networks. There are public hidden services with hundreds of thousands of CP images free of charge, visited by hundreds of thousands of people around the world (probably millions if you count freenet and I2P and other non-tor hidden services as well). There are free public image boards on the clear net that let anyone upload anything they want, and that have thousands and thousands of images of CP publicly and freely available on them. There are hundreds of private groups sharing millions of photographs freely with their members. In 2010 the entirety of known commercial CP distribution channels consisted of ~300 sites, something like 295 of them were operated by the same group of people and shut down in 2010, and they served thirty thousand customers around the world. By contrast there are MILLIONS of nodes on P2P networks serving TENS OF MILLIONS of people CP for free. As you can clearly see, for profit child pornography distribution is extinct. For profit child pornography production is all but extinct. In 2013 there simply are not for profit CP distribution channels or production studios. In 2013 it is virtually impossible to find child pornography for sale. Almost all CP in circulation is freely available on public P2P networks and hidden services. Slightly less is traded on closed membership groups. There are no for profit production studios. CP is produced by parents and family friends, or authority figures over children, molesting the children close to them and uploading the photographs of the molestation to public P2P networks or forums, from where they are spread freely. Technically speaking, a large amount of modernly produced child pornography is self produced (often voluntarily, sometimes voluntarily but without the intention of it being distributed, too often by coercion over the internet), and this has been the case since it became standard for young children to have cell phones with cameras on them (although most of this involves young teenagers, and depending on your point of view may or may not actually qualify as child pornography). So in summary, the secret production studios you think exist do not, and the for profit distribution channels you think exist do not. For profit child pornography has all but been completely eradicated from existence. Today the most dangerous situation is certainly not for profit distribution or production, rather it is the closed membership distribution forums that require members to upload X new pictures every Y period of time to maintain their membership and access to newly posted images. This is dangerous because these groups quickly exhaust the readily available supply of child pornography, and then in order to maintain membership people are tempted to actually produce their own child pornography so they can continue to meet the required quotas. After such a group has obtained so many images, it naturally progresses into a producers only private group as the people who refuse to produce are banned for not meeting their upload quotas. And really I think we can all agree that production is the primary bad thing.