Word: pedophilia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these appalling examples of pedophilia, the lust of mature men for prepubescent children, spreading daily in the Press, it looked to laymen as if a national wave of sex crimes against children was in full surge. In the opinion of competent medical authorities, however, the number of cases of this kind of psychosis that reached print was purely accidental, although both the older Brooklyn convict and the Staten Island house painter declared that their crimes had been suggested by newspaper accounts of similar assaults earlier in the summer...