CAMDEN, N.J. — THINK back to your first
childhood crush.
Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door....
Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections
continued to focus on others in your approximate age group.
But imagine if they did not.
childhood crush.
Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door....
Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections
continued to focus on others in your approximate age group.
But imagine if they did not.
By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues,
long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to
prepubescent children.
These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction
to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness.
Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently,
ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.
long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to
prepubescent children.
These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction
to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness.
Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently,
ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
defines pedophilia as an intense and recurrent sexual
interest in prepubescent children, and a disorder
if it causes a person “marked distress or interpersonal
difficulty” or if the person acts on his interests.
Yet our laws ignore pedophilia until after the commission
of a sexual offense, emphasizing punishment, not prevention.
defines pedophilia as an intense and recurrent sexual
interest in prepubescent children, and a disorder
if it causes a person “marked distress or interpersonal
difficulty” or if the person acts on his interests.
Yet our laws ignore pedophilia until after the commission
of a sexual offense, emphasizing punishment, not prevention.
Part of this failure stems from the misconception that
pedophilia is the same as child molestation.
One can live with pedophilia and not act on it.
Sites like Virtuous Pedophiles provide support for pedophiles
who do not molest children and believe that sex with
children is wrong.
It is not that these individuals are “inactive” or “nonpracticing”
pedophiles, but rather that pedophilia is a status
and not an act. In fact, research shows,
about half of all child molesters are not sexually attracted
to their victims...[...]nytimes.com
pedophilia is the same as child molestation.
One can live with pedophilia and not act on it.
Sites like Virtuous Pedophiles provide support for pedophiles
who do not molest children and believe that sex with
children is wrong.
It is not that these individuals are “inactive” or “nonpracticing”
pedophiles, but rather that pedophilia is a status
and not an act. In fact, research shows,
about half of all child molesters are not sexually attracted
to their victims...[...]nytimes.com
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