That’s where the money is.
I don’t think it’s just a small amount of men who like preteens and teenagers. I would wager it’s most men. We’ve been imprisoning them for owning CP for decades now, yet the market is not shrinking. Various sources report CSAM is “exploding”…there’s been an increase of something like 70% of these websites in the past few years.
CP with younger kids is also growing. Hundreds of thousands of websites host this material in USA, not even counting dark web (and that’s just in the USA, only 20% of these sites are in USA).
How big is the market with those kind of numbers? I’m too stupid to figure it out, but I’d imagine that means many millions of men, tens of millions? It staggers the mind.
The internet has been fantastic in many ways, but it’s revealed what many men are like in private, and it’s a very ugly revelation.