Paedophile is a powerful word; a word that sells newspapers, keeps news channels in business and instills fear into the hearts of children, mothers and men. That dreaded P word, in a point of a shaky finger, can turn a man into a monster. And neither truth nor facts have to necessarily follow to make that indelible brand last forever. Before I crank this up a notch I need to point out the following: This article is not in defence of paedophiles…sorry, I have to put that there for the stupid people. Believe me, as a mother of two young girls I would be the first in line brandishing a rusty blunt knife ready to hack off the bollocks of any man that so much as looked at my two babies the wrong way. Never in the history of ever has the abuse of a young child — be it sexual, physical or mental — been acceptable. I hope that is clear enough for you all.
When is a Paedo not a Paedo?
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THERE IS no doubt that a small number of adults who want to safeguard the innocence of children do so by denying them information. They deliberately set out to keep them ignorant of the facts of sex. Innocence must never be confused with ignorance. Innocence is freedom from guilt. Ignorance is a lack of information. When families deny information and adopt a "we don't talk about these things" attitude to obvious questions - about genital differences between the sexes for example - children sense the discomfort and gather that sexual matters are taboo and not to be talked about with family members. Sometimes the desire to protect a child has the opposite effect to that intended. The child gets the message that parents disapprove of her interest, and may assume wrongly that knowing about sex is bad. Many parents admit that they need guidance on how to talk to children of all ages about sexuality.
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Access options available:. Judith Levine. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, James R. Durham: Duke University Press, Philip Jenkins. New Haven: Yale University Press, Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet. Lynley Hood. Dunedin: Longacre,
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