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pedophilia
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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)
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Robin was an underage teenager, so DC was really denying an inappropriate pedophiliac relationship.
Batman forever by Felber, R. / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Nor does the more disturbing but equally obvious suggestion of pedophiliac tendencies do justice to the full panoply of Bartlett's motives, though it would be a shame to ignore the invitation for a kinky fantasy or two about the actual sculpting of the hidden fine points of their design--a fantasy reinforced by the strong scent of arrested adolescence that hangs in the air around his gang of kids.
Guy and dolls by Simmons, Laurie / Artforum International
Nevertheless, some studies have found that sexual experiences in childhood with older partners are sometimes seen as positive experiences by the children themselves (Okami, 1991: males and females who reported sexual contact, as defined by the participant, prior to age 16 with another person 5 or more years older; Sandfort, 1984: boys in a pedophiliac relationship with an adult male in which sexual contact occurred), so Rind's conclusions are not without precedent.
Childhood sexual experiences and the perception of abuse among Latino ... by Carballo-Dieguez, Alex / The Journal of Sex Research
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