Gardner's Pedophilia

Scully and Marolla uses Scott and Lyman’s typology accounts to analyze the rapists’ motives and actions. When the rapists were interviewed, they were put into two categories: admitters and deniers. Admitters confessed that their sexual act was forced on their victims; while deniers admitted to the act, but still not defining their act as rape. When these rapists confessed, Marolla and Scully concluded that admitters used numerous excuses and deniers used justifications. It has been reported that thirty-four percent of deniers has said their victims were initially unwilling. A great deal of the findings were key to their research. Some of them included that both admitters and deniers were under stress at the time of their rape. Through the deniers’ justifications, they have found that these men committed their wrongdoings because their value system did not give them a reason not to do so. Also their denials came from rape stereotypes that still denied the existence of a victim. Justifications were a common typology that was shared throughout both parties: admitters and

“In men, in general, sexual desire is inherent and spontaneous” whereas “in the other sex, the desire is dormant, if not non-existent, till excited” (457). Greg’s terminology is extremely power-laden. “Spontaneous” has the connotation of energy and activity, whereas “dormant” and “victim” imply inactivity. An important concept is the assumption that men, the “coarser sex,” act on women, the “weaker sex” (457).

Throughout the ages, media and society have been concerned over children. Instead of youth as folk devils, children nowadays serve as the victims of folk devils (Critcher, 2002, p.532). With these trigger events popping up, stereotypes are gradually formed. In recent British history, Paedophile had become one of the most terrifying folk-devils (Jenkins, 1992, p.99). Paedophile behaviour is a moral panic one legal case and the panic is generally fuelled by the sensationalism of media in

In “Riding the Bull at Gilleys,” Scully and Marolla depict the psychopathological and the socio-cultural models of rape. The psychopathological model is a representation of what psychotherapist have used for years to explain the reasoning behind rape. With this model, rape is the result of an eccentric mental dysfunction, which symptoms include involuntary and uncontrollable sexual impulses. These sexual impulses may be temporary, repetitive, long lasting or brief. This model also implies that male sexual aggression is abnormal, therefore; psychologists do not seek any other rational explanation. Mainly, the psychopathological model ignores any correlational factors linking male sexual aggression to learned social behavior.

“Rape is unique. No other violent crime is so fraught with controversy, so enmeshed in dispute and in the politics of gender and sexuality… And within the domain of rape, the most highly charged area of debate concerns the issue of false allegations. For centuries, it has been asserted and assumed that women “cry rape,” that a large proportion of rape allegations are maliciously concocted for purposes of revenge or other motives.”

The paper written by Kennedy and Davis, which was called The Reproduction of Butch-Fem Roles: A Social Constructionist Approach, provides further evidence that the history of sexuality is young and

no-count, low-life, despicable, vile, revolting, disgusting, depraved pedophile is finally dead and hopefully receiving his overdue damnation. One of the worst crimes a man (or woman) can do to a child or teenager is to sexually abuse or rape them. Pedophile bradford williams got off too easy on Earth, he should have had his day in court, convicted and placed in a prison cell with a 250 pound lifer to have done to him what he did to Black children and teenagers for 3 decades.

He contradicted the argument that homosexual behaviour is related to genetic, hormonal or biological disorder. To abolish these views, the author mentions that ‘no school of medicine, medical journal or professional organization has ever recognized such claims (p. 2) - at least at the time he wrote the article in 1994.

In the article, author Vern L. Bullough provided an in-depth look at the research done by sexologist Alfred Kinsey and explaining the contributions he made in the field. The article claimed how Kinsey studied taboo topics and interviewed his students about their lives, a practice never conceived of being done before. The author explained how Kinsley’s controversial work was challenged by Thurman Rice, a, “bacteriology professor who had written extensively on sex, primarily from the view of eugenics” (Bullough 56). These claims were meant to display how society viewed sex as a topic that was not an area of interest for many, but the research done by Kinsley helped push the boundary on the topic and inspire other sexologists to pursue the field.

She is also pressuring him to admit his hand in the murder of a missing teenager. His refusal at first to admit his crimes reflects, how deviant behavior by the person seems justice. Jeff uses his career in photography show his innocence for having photos of underage females. Therefore, indicating how he thinks what he is doing social acceptable and not a minority to societal standards. The film is different from other pedophilia because, the 14 year old girl confronts him at his home. However, throughout the film the 34 year man denies his involvement in child pornography and insist he is only a photographer. Jeff character does reflect a typical deviant behavior appearance because, he is extremely charming, non-threatening and handsome. He does not seem violent, creepy or scary his act of denying his pedophilia tendency reflects him not viewing his behavior as deviant. Who see their life opportunities diminished because of a condition they could neither choose nor change (Seto, 2012), but that stigmatization of atypical sexual interests can also influence sexual (Smolenski, Stigler, Ross, & Rosser, 2011)Pedophilia characteristics, image and mannerism is difficult to distinguish. Therefore, people who suffer from pedophilia does not see themselves as deviant behavior. Results strongly indicate that people with pedophilia area stigmatized group

Most people consider pedophiles to be anyone who has committed a sex offense against a child and that all pedophiles will commit this offense. In both cases that is, at best, a half truth. The DSM-5, which is a tool that outlines the diagnostic criteria for a given disorder, defines pedophilic disorder as, “a paraphilia involving intense and recurrent sexual urges towards and fantasies about prepubescent children that have either been acted upon or which cause the person with the attraction distress or interpersonal difficulty.” With the latter half of this definition, we begin to open up to the idea that there are those who have sexual interests in children who have had no form of inappropriate contact with a child, but rather just have their daily life affected by the feelings that they are having toward

     Harding wrote an article on pedophilia stating that pedophilia is a subcategory of a larger group of sexual disorders commonly classified as paraphilias. “These are defined as recurrent, intense, aphrodisiac fantasies, sexual urges,

Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation, written by Olivia Judson, mimics a Dear Abby column in a newspaper, in which her audience, ranges from a honeybee to spotted hyena, write-in and ask for help with their sex lives. She covers a slew of different sex topics, some more pleasant than others, such as incest, cannibalism, promiscuousness, and asexual reproduction. The book is truly a witty yet entertaining excursion of the natural history and the evolutionary biology of sex. Judson’s objective is to teach her audience about biology, specifically sexual biology.

In 2002 the Catholic Church was rocked with scandalous reports of Priests sexually molesting young children and particularly boys. The scandal is the result of numerous investigations, allegations, arrests, trials, convictions and imprisonment of Catholic Priests. It became largely reported that once trusted and respected Catholic Priests were pedophiles. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) categorizes pedophilia as a mental disorder if the sexual fantasies or urges involve prepubescent children , if they last six months or longer, if the individual has acted on them, or if they cause marked distress” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

Some argue, "the reality is that the overwhelming majority of offenders have a psychiatric illness, and to argue that sexual offenses are symptoms of some diagnostic category, only provides them with an excuse to minimize their responsibility for their own behavior." (Briggs 15). Others maintain that there are genetic and developmental factors which contribute to pedophilia being a disorder, although this theory has not yet been proven.