Word: pedophilia
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...touching on everything from bisexuality to pedophilia, Condon realizes his film is likely to receive some negative scrutiny from conservative commentators. But Condon remains optimistic, knowing that “when you take a subject like this one you know that people like that are waiting for you on the other side. I hope those kind of people won’t run the discussion. I hope it gets broaden[ed] out into the general question: how far have we come...
Under the category of “paraphilias,” the DSM also lists pedophilia, exhibitionism and fetishism. All are understood as mental disorders along the lines of depression, anxiety or schizophrenia...
...summer of 2000. Working with a handheld camera, she captured four scenes a day, completing the entire shoot in just one month?despite losing five days' worth of film to an airport X-ray machine. Giddily enjoyable but unsparing in its treatment of darker subjects like infidelity and pedophilia, Monsoon Wedding was the budget hit of 2001, topping the foreign-film box office in the U.S. and taking $30 million worldwide?the most ever for an Indian film. "Monsoon Wedding was so rich with emotion and color," says Juliette Lewis, describing why she signed to star with Uma Thurman...
...Number of Catholic parishes the Boston archdiocese may close due to its financial problems, which stem in part from pedophilia scandals...
False Witness The investigation into pedophilia in the northern French town of Outreau that began in 1997 had long since metastasized: 17 adults charged and jailed, children forced into foster care, one successful suicide and another attempted. Last week it collapsed into a hideous lie, raising grave questions about French justice. Myriam Delay, her husband, Thierry, and their neighbors David Delplanque and Aurélie Grenon have all admitted to sexually abusing the Delay children. But the exceptionally talkative Myriam had kept the legal machine rolling for years by confirming the children's otherwise unsubstantiated charges that others were involved...