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...abuse. According to Dr. Fred Berlin, a Johns Hopkins University professor who founded the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma in Baltimore, Md., pedophilia is a distinct sexual orientation marked by persistent, sometimes exclusive, attraction to prepubescent children. Dr. John Bradford, a University of Ottawa psychiatrist who has spent 23 years studying pedophilia--which is listed as an illness in the manual psychiatrists use to make diagnoses--estimates its prevalence at maybe 4% of the population. (Those attracted to teenagers are sometimes said to suffer "ephebophilia," but perhaps because so many youth-obsessed Americans would...
...difficulty in treating pedophiles is that we know little about their condition. Could people become pedophiles because they were sexually victimized as kids? That theory makes common sense, but only one-third of pedophiles say they were abused. Could pedophilia be a brain disease? Bradford of the University of Ottawa says studies of pedophiles' brains have shown differences in the way they react to changes in hormone levels, but he says the research is in its earliest stages. Other scientists have posited several risk factors that can lead to pedophilia, including chromosomal abnormalities, psychological problems during puberty and even being...
...proper outcome should have been for the Russian pair to concede the gold and accept the silver medal. Naturally, this did not happen. It is time to clean up Olympic judging. Athletes give their heart and soul in competition, and they deserve to be judged fairly. CONSTANCE K. QUINN Ottawa...
...It’s a short tournament and you want to make sure that you take advantage of your chances,” Shewchuk told the Ottawa Sun prior to the game...
Pazira will return full-time to Ottawa and her chosen profession, journalism, when the Kandahar hype dies down, but she is grateful for this onscreen opportunity. In her "first and last" venture as an actress, she made a point that she says is often missed. "War touches the well-being of women in such a negative way. Its effects are not as visible as the burka, so we don?t see it or talk about it," she says. "War is a prison, specifically in the lives of women...