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• n  a sexual attraction to children

• The first problem with treating pedophilia is understanding just what it is.
• Then, seeing the rows of blank faces, he resorts to saying pedophilia with a Spanish accent which turns out to be right.
• Hard-core pedophilia is a different and more intractable problem, and, according to Tim Smith, a Seattle treatment specialist who works with sex offenders, it may affect fewer .

• paedophilia

News & Articles

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• Josh Thomson: 'I am Not Against Gay Marriage or Gay Rights in Any Way'
  UFC lightweight contender Josh Thomson came under fire yesterday after he made comments comparing gay marriage to pedophilia, incest and polygamy, via Vigilante MMA .  Today, "The Punk" has deleted all Facebook and Twitter posts on the comment and issued a press release apologizing, via Bloody Elbow, as well as stating that members of the media took his words out of context.  "Yesterday top UFC ...
  June 13, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• Ambassador responds to allegations of misconduct from State Department memo
  A U.S. ambassador who allegedly became the target of an internal State Department investigation after being accused of prostitution and pedophilia denied any misconduct in a statement.“I am angered and saddened by the baseless allegations that have appeared in the press,” the ambassador said, adding that to see his time in the country where he served “smeared is devastating.”The ambassador, who ...
  June 11, 2013 - MSNBC
• State Department responds to reports that investigations into alleged misconduct were quashed
  The State Department responded to claims that internal investigators dropped a probe into alleged misconduct by department personnel, including an ambassador, who were accused of inappropriate activities including prostitution and pedophilia in a government memo.The ambassador who came under investigation “routinely ditched his protective security detail in order to solicit sexual favors from ...
  June 11, 2013 - MSNBC

Quotes

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• Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone in Huffington Post (blog)
  ...a news conference in Chile, Cardinal Bertone, the Vatican's Secretary of State, said, "[M]any psychologists and psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relation between celibacy and pedophilia." They do believe, however, "that...
• Pope Benedict XVI in Boston Channel.com
  Pedophilia is absolutely incompatible with the priesthood,Benedict said. "It is more important to have good priests than many priests. We will do everything possible to heal this wound."
• Ake Green in CBS News
  If two men sleep with each other, or if two women do so, it is abnormal, just like pedophilia,Green said in his testimony.