Argumentative Essay On Pedophilia

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Psychological disorders can exceed more than to just a person with a disorder that needs medication to regulate. Specific disorders not only can hurt the person who suffers from it but it may hurt others around as well. There are many psychological disorders that may be harmful and dangerous to society or a community but the most common one is pedophilia. “Pedophilia is defined as a persistent sexual interest in prepubescent children, manifested in thoughts, fantasies, urges, sexual arousal or sexual behavior” (Seto 164-165). Pedophilia has been going on for years and crimes have been expanding throughout these years. In today’s society, the growth of the technology has extended the activities of pedophiles and promoted crimes against children due to the communication that new technology allows.
In the 1950s, pedophiles who were looking for victims to act upon, they would have to go to a local park, playground, or even school yard. Doing so involved certain risks for them because they can be spotted by parents, teachers, school workers, or any adult in general. Now the location where pedophiles look for their victims is at the World Wide Web which makes it easier to gain access with young children and safer for them not to get caught. “There appear to be four ways in …show more content…

It is found that a “pedophile's goal is to obtain a child's trust through an escalation of attention intended to result in the seduction of a child into sexual acts through a face-to-face meeting” (Lowenstein) Chat rooms in particular are the number one source for pedophiles to find their victims. Pedophiles misrepresent themselves as adolescents in chat rooms or via e-mail and trick children them into trusting them enough to be able to befriend them. As soon as that’s done, they have the child in the palm of their hands being able to manipulate them and eventually make them fall into their

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