Problem

Snuff movies

Other Names:
Snuff videos
Nature:

Snuff films are live videos of sexual violence where the victim is actually killed. They are the extreme end of sex and torture films, which usually involve excessive abuse and gratuitous violence to unconsenting children and women. Such videos are shown and sold on the black market and difficult to trace. Those that have been seized by police are of questionable authenticity, but nonetheless provide a window into the undercover world of paedophiles, visual obscenity and sexual sado-masochism.

Incidence:

In 1994 in the UK police seized some 5,000 films including films of deliberately staged killings. It is believed that many are made in South America where disappearances are common.

Related Problems:
Suffering
Human death
Aggravates:
Sexual abuse
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 16: Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems
Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST