Essays on Pedophilia

- What did you learn about Pedophilia?

Pedophilia can be described as an abnormal sexual behavior of a human being. While the sexual attraction of an individual toward someone from the opposite or same sex is accepted and understandable, pedophilia is taken to be an abnormal form of sexual desire. People who are pedophilic have a sexual attraction toward minors who are not sexually developed. The minors are subjected to the sexual acts as the pedophilic person acts as an active partner or participant in the sexual act.

Pedophilia is an abnormal state of the human sexual desire, and there are ...

The Neglect of Children

Introduction The difficulty of understanding of child abuse and neglect phenomenon lies in the great amount of issues and problems, which this phenomenon occupies; and the variety of themes, that can be essential parts of this study or just have slight relation with child maltreatment studies. The information which is given in C. Crosson-Tower’s book of “Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect” has well-organized structure that is very important because the spectrum of child maltreatment problems is enormous and it is hard to assimilate it for the first time. That is why the author’s material is a ...

Discussion Question 1

Forensic Science is a field that is closely related to the field of law. Based on this semester’s readings, research, academic activities and interaction with other students concerning this discipline, forensic psychology has played a major role in assisting me in understanding the basic tenets required in my field of career. One of the most essential achievements that forensic psychology has played in achieving this is creating a firm, understandable and ascertained bridge between forensic psychology and the field of law.

My desired career is Criminal Justice, and forensic science has played a major role to create a link between psychology and criminal ...

Sexual deviance comprises of a wide range of abnormal sexual expressions from cross dressing, fetishism, sexual masochism, incest, pedophilia, and rape. On the contrary, sexual deviant behavior can be defined in different contexts. According to sociology, sexual deviance varies from culture to the other depending different cultural beliefs and norms. Sexual deviant behaviors are attributed with discomfort, bizarreness, and inefficiency. Some sexual deviant habits include paraphilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, and masochist among others. Paraphilia individuals have behavior, an urge, or a sexual fantasy that is distressing and repetitive while exhibitionism entails sexual pleasure through exposure of the genitals (Goode, 2010). Fetishism, on ...

How to stop/prevent sex crimes and underage prostitution

There are several definitions of child prostitution. According to the United Nations, underage prostitution is the act that involves engaging minors to be involved or to take part in acts that are sexual in nature mostly for monetary gains, or whichever other consideration that the other person may propose. According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, underage prostitution refers to the act of obtaining sexual services from a minor for compensation. Usually, in most states, the age under which somebody is considered a minor is that of below sixteen years. In most cases, the child is ...

Psychology

Pedophiles are increasingly becoming more prominent in mainstream society and their methods are ever getting more devious and more deadly with each passing day. Pedophilia is however a condition with proven genetic inclinations and as such can be considered as a condition which one is born with as opposed to developmental characteristics which are entirely dependent on a person’s lifestyle. This research questionnaire is based on pedophilia as a condition as well as pedophiles and their activities in main stream society. The paper also focuses on the perceptions of society on pedophilia and how different people relate to this condition. The thesis ...

Alexis has gone through a lot of emotional turmoil caused by Anthony’s deviant sexual behavior. The young girl is clearly a victim of pedophile. The emotional changes that are taking place reflect that of a pedophilia victim. Pedophile victims are those who survive actions of people with paraphilia. Pedophile victims go through periods of sexual, physical, and severe emotional abuse that leaves them with wounds that are more severe than physical injury. Anthony inflicted abuse on Alexis that has left her in a situation that she has to struggle to be happy, cope, and lead a happy life. In addition to this being a ...

- Introduction It was Sigmund Freud who first suggested that human psychosexual development is heavily influenced by one’s relationship with one’s father or mother (Katz-Wise 2). However, in reality, the development of sexuality is quite different and significantly more complex. Gender identity has become different from sexual identity, and one’s sexual orientation is different still (Katz-Wise 2). Before detailing the prevailing arguments regarding sexual identity and all the issues that go along with it, it is first important to understand the nature of the discussion. Sexual identity, for the purposes of discussion here, will ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Abstract The paper outlines a few connections between pornography, erotica, and obscene material, in relation to sex crimes committed against adults and children. It is commonly known among the public that sex offenders view this material, and that they are often influenced by it. The paper also discusses how offenders my use the material to avoid acting on their desires, as well as how the material may awaken stronger desires within certain individuals. Rehabilitation is possible for those with desires that centralized around pornography and obscene material as the primary trigger. The best results for rehabilitation were seen in ...

After several attempts trying to secure an appointment with Dr. Blarney H Paul, a medical practitioner in the field of psychiatry, I finally got a chance of interviewing him about pedophilia. He was a charismatic man and welcomed me cordially on my arrival. Dr. Paul started by defining what pedophilia was all about. According to him, pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult experiences a strong sexual attraction towards under aged children especially children who are 11 years and below. He went on to demystify the condition by saying that it mostly affects men more than women. In his response, Dr. Paul ...

Introduction

Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” is a highly controversial, although very popular novel, as it recalls the memories of a widowed white man, who uses the pseudonym Humbert Humbert (H.H.) for confessing his crimes: homicide and pedophilia. The novel represents a self-analysis of Humbert Humbert’s mind, who addresses a jury, appealing to their understanding for his actions. This essay discusses about how Humbert Humbert’s uses the confessional mode in “Lolita”, for triggering the compassion of a jury by exploring the side of them that would tolerate his crimes, because they too could or might have experienced similar ideas, feelings, sensations and behaviors in ...

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gay is man who is aesthetically, romantically and sexually attracted to other men, and who earns emotional and sexual partnership with other man. Earlier the word gay used to mean homosexual men and homosexual women, as well as the entire LGBT community. Strengthening the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual people, lost the sense of this wide use of the word, so that today it means only gay men.

Gay population through history

The oldest source that testifies to the gay couple is Khnumhotepa and Niankhkhnuma tomb, which was built during the Fifth dynasty (2498-2345 BC) Old Kingdom necropolis in the ...

Pedophilia is a wrongful abnormal sexual behavior that is performed by an adult to gain sexual pleasures from a child. Research studies show that a third of female respondents and one out of ten males have once experience some kind of sexual abuse in their pre-pub stages (Carroll, 2010). Remarkably, children between the ages of 7 and 13 that belong to different economical and social background are highly susceptible to sexual abuse by older people (Carroll, 2010). For the past decade, a lot of literature about children being sexually ill-treated by adults has exploded. This literature provides many new approaches to the scope ...

Pedophilia is characterized with so many definitions both medically and psychologically. Medically, pedophilia is defined as a psychiatric disorder that brings intense sexual urges and arousing desires in prepubescent children. Psychologically, it is defined as a psychosexual disorder where adults engage in sexual acts with prepubescent children of the opposite or same sex. In general, it is defined as a sexual interest in children or an act of an adult involving in sexual activities with underage children or rather child sexual abuse. According to the law, a pedophile is a person who commits sexual based crimes on children who are legally underage, Crimes like ...

Pedophilia as a Mental Disorder: Why Pedophiles are not Criminals

A pedophile can be described as an adult person who gets sexually attracted to young people. Pedophiles exhibit behaviors which deviate from what the society expects-especially on sexual behavior. According to medical diagnosis, pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which people who are 16 years of age (and above) have exclusive or primary sexual interest in prepubescent young ones; mostly children of 13 years of age and below. For the attraction to be diagnosed as pedophilia, the prepubescent child must be younger than the adolescent by at least five years (Blaney & Millon, 2009). Although many people view pedophiles as ...

First and last name of the author

This chapter is about offenders who attack and torture the youngest members of our population - the children. “Pedophilia (from the Greek word for child lover) is the clinical term for the most commonly used terms child molestation and child sexual abuse” (Bartol, C. R., &Bartol, A. M, 2011, p.378). There are a number of statistics that talk in percentage about child molesters, but also a lot of victims are not known because children rarely talk about their molesters. Usually, they reveal that they were sexually abused when they grow up. Child molestation can originate from a member of the family (most ...

Introduction

The sociology of childhood in the contemporary society focuses on the social construction of the child. The social construction of the child deals with how the child differs in terms of social, cultural, historical, and economic perspectives (Shanahan, 2007). Sociology of childhood deals with viewing the child from these different perspectives unlike in the traditional way. The traditional way failed to understand childhood in the socio-cultural, sexualized, and gendered context. The sociology of childhood identifies ways through which the interaction of children and adults: challenges; produces; reproduces; and transforms the society and childhood. This article discusses the sacralisation of ...