“The crime of spreading pornographic goods” can be explained and analyzed in terms of dissemination science for the key step of this crime is “dissemination of pornographic information”. The crime of spreading pornographic goods belongs to disseminating phenomenon in crimecommitting categorization. Its disseminating elements all show different features from normal dissemination, e.g., a hidden identity, evil motive, pornographic contents, corrosive morality, lack of values, miniature and online medium and deep motivation of the audience. A sort of dissemination in hidden state, study of the crime of spreading pornographic goods offers numerous disadvantages for it is hard to determine who is the audience, how it gets in touch with pornography and what abnormal conduct may result and what a causal relation is between error and crime. It is generally believed the crime causes harm to society by negative disseminative mechanisms, such as imitation effect, desensitization effect and actuating effect. The dissemination and spread corrodes and disintegrates sex moral and conception; the “sex activity” in mass media under the wave of infotainment misinterprets the reality and misleads the audience; reasoning is absent in the webnet space. All these are ecological surroundings which may help to spread pornographic information.

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