Pedophilia is the sexual dysfunction that takes most of today's flak. All to do with the increasingly number of pedophiles unveiled mainly through the internet.
Knowingly, there occurs in all walks of life and most of all, it's known that
a pedophile is usually someone close to the child. This is typical of a sexual
dysfunction of the paraphilia kind. Characterized by sexual pleasure
derived from sexual intercourse with under aged of both genders. The
individual with such a sexual dysfunction may prefer boys, girls or both
genders for his/her own sake of sexual stimulation. A pedophile's sexual activity may involve children or not, as one may have adult sex partners.
The pedophile may indulge his/hers sexual fantasies with next of kin,
peers or children from outside the familiar context. In some cases, when a pedophile
victimize children with quite frequency, he/she may reaches out for children
in many ways, such as, becoming close to the family, the child herself, or even
through networks of pedophilia. Cases of individuals adopting children for the
sake of their own sexual fantasies are few and far in between. In order
to induce a child, a pedophile relies on gifts and presents given namely, strolls,
or even threatening not to tell others of what takes place between him and the
victim herself.
Those into pedophilia may constrict their activities to undressing and observing
a child, undressing, showing off, masturbating in front of or touching and stroking
the child.
Others however may come to the sexual act itself with penetration and
genitals touching, kisses, you name it.
Unlikely other paraphilia, the pedophilia is deemed violence against the child,
and so is crime, since the victim has no idea or bears just a faint notion of
what is taken place. And even if taking part, for there isn't psychological
maturity for this sort of choice-making, disregarding of physical assault or
else The aggression may occur, when the offender ties up, hits, holds back the
child in order to have sexual relation with or rendering able to watch
her naked.
Furthermore, sexual abuse generates a psychological hindrance for the
child. Hence, coming to develop a sexual dysfunction of a sort or phobia,
amongst others.
The sexual abuse is unlikely to pass unnoticed by the child, no matter
how minor it might seem.
Those suffering from this sexual dysfunction are indeed sick people,
being the crime characterized by sexual pleasure derived from real tiny
children. The pedophilia generates a sentiment of guilt in the individual, which
could be explained by saying that a good deed is being done to the child. He
might try to say that a child need to be in touch with own sexuality,
among other silly explanations meant to be rational for the sake of sexual abuse. Some may refrain to solely looking at photographs of naked children;
for there's such deep sufferance, that one can't stand being with children.
The pedophilia maybe linked to abuses suffered in infancy, to a fixation to
certain period of life on which point the offender felt delighted when with
someone of the same age at the time, of which he/she can't let go off or some
other factor that might be unveiled along the way like an utterly repressed
sexuality.
Anyway, pedophilia as we know it places in jeopardy those into it as much as
who'd suffered abuse. It's worth mentioning that whoever suffers from this sexual dysfunction remains unable to come to grips with own lust, being the prowl and
prey at the same time.
By Anne Griza
Psychologist
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