PAEDOPHILIA
No perversion, apart from rape, arouses such public outcry as does paedophilia, the condition in which an adult or older adolescent takes an erotic interest in a child under the age of fourteen. Even hardened criminals cannot tolerate this crime and paedophiles often have to be isolated in prison for their own safety.
In heterosexual paedophilia the victims are usually seven to ten-year-old girls who are sometimes harshly treated or even killed. Usually a paedophile wants the girl to show her vulva, to look at pornography, or to handle his penis. He may fondle or smack her, or attempt to have intercourse with her. How parents can rear girls so as to avoid such individuals without encouraging them to fear all men or become discourteous to men who are being socially pleasant towards them is a real problem and there are no easy answers. On balance it makes sense to teach children never to go anywhere with strangers without first asking permission from their parents and children should never take sweets or anything else from people they do not know unless their parents are there. It is upsetting to think that we have to bring up our children fearing anyone they do not know but one has to be realistic and child molesters can be dangerous.
Oestrogen, anti-testosterone drugs and castration have been used in attempts to control paedophiles and rapists but the best course must be prevention. Usually men and women show a tendency to consort with individuals corresponding to their own stage in psychosexual development. Heterosexual paedophiles are immature, scared of women of their own age and often revengeful against them. They masturbate a lot to vivid fantasies of little girls, concentrating perhaps on their buttocks or even on things such as the ankle socks they wear. Whatever the precise cause, clearly the psychosexual development of the heterosexual paedophile has not prospered and he needs professional help.
The more common form of paedophilia is that in which men are attracted to young boys. To say they are homosexual may overstate the case since many, although not too attracted to it, do have heterosexual intercourse. Many are married. Their love of small boys is probably
self-centred since what they really love is the image of themselves when young. They often shave off their pubic hair and watch themselves masturbate in front of a mirror. They are fascinated by boys, especially nude.
A number of people who are mentally disordered also commit sexual offences against children.
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