Word: pedophilia
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...easier not to ask too many questions about pedophilia. The questions make you blush; some of the answers make your skin crawl. But it seems that almost daily we see another grown man tell his story and weep, suddenly becoming the terrified kid he once was. All the revelations, all spilling out at once, have created a fog: Why are there so many people who want to molest children? How can we stop them? Are we overreacting...
...academic field is devoted to understanding and preventing their behavior--and to comprehending its effects on their victims. Such work can require cold-eyed questions that poke around the edges of our darkest taboos. At the outset, it's important to note that news accounts often conflate two phenomena: pedophilia and child sexual 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...
...convocation, taking place today, means the Vatican has finally accepted that the American church's pedophilia problem is Rome's as well. "When there's a problem in the family, you call the members of the family together to discuss it," says a Vatican insider...
...Pedophilia is about power and control. The damage to a child from sexual abuse is forever; some victims never heal. CYNTHIA STINE Garland, Texas...
...people insist on making an absurd connection between celibacy and pedophilia [RELIGION, April 1]? These priests do not harm children because priests cannot marry but because they are deviants. If they had just wanted to find sexual pleasure, they could have found willing adult female partners. These men preyed on children, the most naive of their community. Jesus said it would be better to be drowned in the sea than to lead a child into sin. Let these men drown in the sea of prison. TONY LEE LYNN Ida, Mich...