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pedophilia n. an obsession with children as sex objects. Overt acts, including taking sexual explicit photographs, molesting children, and exposing one's genitalia to children are all crimes. The problem with these crimes is that pedophilia is also treated as a mental illness, and the pedophile is often released only to repeat the crimes or escalate the activity to the level of murder. (See: molestation, rape, pornography) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The library will use facial recognition technology to identify victims of sexual abuse and paedophiles appearing in video images and photographs submitted by police from every state and territory. The force stressed that there was as yet no specific intelligence to indicate that either traffickers or paedophiles have increased activity in the region. In the British production, Kinsey's Paedophiles, Gebhard, a former director of the Kinsey Institute, states: "It was illegal and we knew it was illegal, but it's very important to study childhood sexuality. |
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