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    However, I was able to conclude after reading the research that in order to be successful in the same, it is important to diagnose and assess every single factor that can be supported with a medical explanation. In context with the factors of pedophilia and compulsive sexual or hypersexual behaviour, I was interested in knowing about psychosocial therapies. As identified by the authors, psychosocial therapies in the most common forms to deal with paraphilic disorders lead towards criminal information

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    Lolita Pedophile

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    How do people set up the border between affection and illness? As metaphorically as it may seem, although people now have clearer understanding of the importance when it comes to mental health, some of the common conceptual illness such as pedophilia still haunts the society with the confusion between one’s freedom of choice and a disease that can be cured or eased. To grasp the controversy and the impact of psychology and the society, Lolita is an essential piece of literature that demonstrates

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    an elaborate theory called "the social construction of reality." In modern America, one of the largest social groups to which we can belong, certain values are instilled into our impressionable minds; for example, not many of us would accept pedophilia. Or would we? What if our interactions with others

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    In over a period of years, an increasing amount of attention has been shed to the problem of child sexual abuse in the church. While churches, and other facilities which care for children, have had their experience of this problem, most attention has been brought to the abuse in the Catholic Church. Around the world, case after case has been seen in the press of clergy and members of religious orders being charged with sex offenses against children. Some of these cases go back decades. The issue

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    The novel Lolita exposes the pedophilia and perversion in the text; however, the child pornography invoked is very similar to the abrasive ads, commercials, and images viewed in America. It seems sanctimonious that such a controversial novel because of the pedophilia, does not take into account objectifying young girls. Integrity is not the concern in Lolita; a novel that represents the exploitation towards the young girls is. While Humbert is a perverse and gruesome man that has pedophiliac desires

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    Sexual abuse is a heinous act that causes extreme suffering for a victim while providing pleasure for a perpetrator. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, approximately 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls are abused sexually before the age of 18 (n.d.). The question of why an individual would commit such a heinous act has various answers, almost all of which depend on the background of the individual. A common speculation is that abusers themselves were once abused by someone else. This idea branches

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    than any other anthropologists, whose studies of the Yanomami Indians of the Brazilian rainforest were controversial enough before Patrick Tierney wrote an explosive article for The New Yorker accusing Chagnon and his associates of everything from pedophilia to attempted genocide.Some argue that he should tell Yanomami what they are doing to them or about their experiments and these all things are for study, that the result would be useful to cure them, which was the half-truth. They gave them medicine

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    murder, rape, pedophilia, and the list goes on. Some Australians have started asking themselves the question“ Should the death penalty be reintroduced for serious crimes?” Majority of Australians still disagree, but there has been a steady incline from 2007 onwards in Australians who agree in reintroducing the death penalty(McAllister & Cameron, 2014). Which lead me to consider whether capital punishment is an effective deterrent for preventing serious crimes such as murder, rape, pedophilia etc., which

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    Mystic River Essay

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    He identifies pedophilia and goes ahead to relate it to the ordinary lifecycle of the society. It includes the judgmental perspective of the society, vulnerability of emotions, justification of violence and the love, and attachment of human beings to a certain aspect of

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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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