ABSTRACT
The word ‘collecting’ is often used to refer to the process through which an individual with a sexual interest in children acquires child pornography material. That same individual is often referred to as a ‘collector’ of child pornography. We see reference to seized collections in newspapers after an individual has been arrested for possession of child pornography, and the size or qualities of that collection are often emphasised. Sometimes the term collection is used to refer to that which an individual has, which may be little more than an aggregation of items. On other occasions, however, we use the term collection in a more sophisticated way to refer to something more than a simple aggregation, focusing on organised and structured quantities.
