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    plays a big role in how pedophiles may engage in child pornography and how they can locate children to potentially abuse. Offenders also use the internet to get in contact and to communicate with others who are also engaging in child pornography and pedophilia. The following is an explanation of child sexual abuse that happens in the internet. Quayle and Taylor explain that offenders use the internet for many reason. The main reason is to remain anonymous, and to show that physical harm has not been

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    Ratigan Case Summary

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    Background of the Case: This case is about Rev. Shawn F. Ratigan, a 47-year old catholic priest at Kansas City-St. Joseph diocesan. He was convicted of making child pornography and was arrested on May 2011 and was imprisoned for 50 years in prison by Kansas City federal judge. Ratigan’s Early Life: Records says that Ratigan has graduated from Conception Seminary College in Missouri in 2000. He was worried about his graduation because he joined college after 12 years of completing his high school

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    Mental Illness Mental illness can be a taboo subject, and people learn different facets of it by different means. I was first introduced to basic concepts of mental illness during my high school years. At that time, I had a very close friend who suffered from depression. She confided in me that she was considering suicide. Shortly after our talk, I called her mother because I believed that her disclosure wasn’t a spontaneous, knee-jerk statement but a true threat to my wonderful friend. Her parents

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    watching them grow up while living thousands of miles away. However, social media is not always the best tool for connecting people. Pre-teens and teenagers who refrain from using social media, specifically Instagram, are sheltered from cyberbullying, pedophilia, and unnecessary alcohol information, all of which may or may not be age appropriate. Any child can tell you that bullying has not been eradicated in schools and society. With the lowering age of phone possession, the risk of cyberbullying is more

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    for both parties unlike pedophilic ones. In the past, homosexuality and pedophillia shared a similar arena. Both were viewed as mental illnesses and criminalized in most of the western world. It’s important to note that pedophilia is in no way integral to homosexuality. Pedophilia, even in highly romanticized literature, exemplifies highly predatory aspects of sexuality. The Pedophilic Poetry of John Gambril illustrates

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    child molesters. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), pedophilic disorder is a diagnosis assigned to adults who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children (APA). With that being said, pedophilia is a mental disorder, not a crime and I believe they should not be incarcerated in a correctional facility. All pedophiles do not act upon their urges. Some may hear the term “pedophile”, and have this misconception that it is the same as being

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    Gardner's Pedophilia

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    Gardner believed that all human sexual paraphilias, such as pedophilia, sadism, rape, necrophilia, zoophilia, coprophilia, and other paraphilias, served a beneficial purpose in a species survival by “‘enhanc[ing] the general level of sexual excitation in society.’" Many of his misogynistic and pedophilic viewpoints have been intertwined into the development of his rational behind PAS and its treatment. In regards to women, Gardner argued that a woman's “physiology and conditioning make[] them potential[]

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    It is important to be aware of your surroundings at all times. Especially when you have children. In today's society many people across the world are mentally ill or have a weird obsession with something society does not consider to be normal behavior. Pedophile is a person sexually attracted children Pedophiles who suffer from paraphilia are considered to be abnormal or have an unnatural attraction Pedophiles often fantasize about engaging in sexual activity with children. It is rare to encounter

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    Pedophilia Essay

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    What is Pedophilia? Pedophilia is characterized as a sexual fondness for and activity with children. Pedophilia is a form of paraphilia (deviant sexual behavior). Pedophiles partake in acts that include fondling with a child's genitals, having sexual intercourse with and exploitation of children through prostitution or pornographic materials (Pedophilia, 2008). According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in order to be diagnosed as a pedophile one must experience

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    the person to try and start over now that everyone knows what they had done and their privacy had been violated (Amoroso). Megan’s Law also only lists people who are of moderate or high risk. Basically if you have done something along the lines of pedophilia but nothing that made the newspaper, no one will know about it (Amoroso). People also try to use the pedophiles as a reason why you

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