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Consensual Sex Does Not Exist In Pedophilia

Several researchers have argued that the child, more specifically a pre-pubescent child, is incapable of giving any form of consent to any sexual activity with an adult. Others have raised questions that adults do not seek the consent of children, in many other acts also. Adults do not seek the consent of children before baptizing … Continue reading

Is Pedophilia a Different Sexual Orientation or a Disorder or a Crime?

It is known that human beings have a varied experience in terms of sexual orientation. A male attracted to a female only, has a heterosexual orientation. A male attracted to a male only, has a homosexual orientation. A male attracted to children only, has a pedophilic sexual orientation. These are all different sexual orientations. It … Continue reading

Can Modern Society Accept Pedophilia?

Some societies in the past may have considered pedophilia as normative; however, modern society condemns it. Law enforcement operations bust pedophile networks like “Dreamboard”, courts find pedophiles as criminals, theologians consider them as sinful, and psychologists argue pedophilia to be a mental disorder. Few researchers had opined that pedophilia was taking the same road towards … Continue reading

Is Pedophilia going the same way for Acceptability as Homosexuality went?

Associated features like a higher rate of depression, alcohol abuse, incidence of other paraphalias like obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, etc., played an important role over in the debate over the delisting of homosexuality from the DSM. A major factor in the removal of homosexuality from the DSM-II in 1973 was the empirical database that homosexual … Continue reading

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