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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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Notwithstanding their known pedophilic associations, homosexualist organizations continue to seek full international recognition of "gay rights.
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13) And if Munford's pedophilic (per)version of Christianity holds sway, Procter is recast in the story's climax as minister/predator, as he exhorts his supplicant to "pray like a man" (153) in the face of Procter's decision to go to the state penitentiary and thereby reject his white benefactor's intercession, an intervention that would free Procter physically but further enslave him within the white patriarchy's dehumanizing machinery.
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