What does pedophilia mean? What should I do if I have a pedophilia?

We have seen some pedophiles in movies and TV shows. They have twisted feelings for children and even do not hesitate to attack children. This behavior is shameful. Next, let us understand what pedophilia is and how to prevent it.

What does pedophilia mean?

"Pedophilia" is a sexual perversion that obtains sexual satisfaction from children, and the so-called children refer to children before sexual development (puberty). The victims are both boys and girls. Academically, it originated in the late 19th century, but it basically appeared in Western public discourse only in the late 1970s. After the 1990s, with the upsurge of combating online pedophilia pornography crimes, it gradually became an important ethical topic in public discourse.

In China, the crime of child molestation refers to the act of molesting a child under the age of 14. The act of molestation can be either compulsory or non-compulsory; the target of the molestation is a boy or girl under the age of 14; the act of molestation is intentional, and the perpetrator must know that the victim is or may be a child; if the child is a girl, the male perpetrator does not have the intention to rape, which is the key difference between this crime and the crime of raping a girl; but if the child is a boy, and the woman or male perpetrator commits an indecent act against him, it includes sexual intercourse and the intention to have sexual intercourse.

Causes of pedophilia

Pedophilia is mainly caused by abnormal acquired psychological development. The reasons can be summarized as follows:

1. Psychological factors. Loving children, cherishing childhood, and showing concern for children are common behaviors of people, and the psychology is blameless; but if such behavior and psychology exceed a certain limit, and become a concept fixed in the mind and control people's behavior, then they become pedophiles.

2. Social factors. Some people feel that people's hearts are unpredictable because of bad interpersonal relationships or setbacks in work and life. They feel tired, nervous, and terrible because they have to work hard to deal with adults, but they don't need to spend much time and effort to interact with children. After a long time, they get tired of interpersonal relationships between adults and turn their interest to children. Some people have developed a liking for the opposite sex during adolescence, but were suppressed by their parents or teachers, which led to their inability to interact with women of the same age normally after adulthood. Recalling their childhood "romance", they have sexual fantasies about young women and refuse to contact women of the same age. This is a pedophilic behavior, but patients generally do not show violent sexual behavior, which generally depends on the situation of childhood romance. There have also been cases of having a liking for women of the same age during adolescence, or even sexual fantasies, which led to isolation from peers, making patients possessive of the opposite sex of a certain age, and even violent tendencies. This is also a symptom of pedophilia.

3. Family factors: Family disharmony and bad relationships between husband and wife can cause them to lose interest in adult sex and turn to children.

4. Character defects. Because of his timid and cowardly character, he lacks the ability to cope with crises. When he encounters an unexpected major mental blow, such as his wife's affair being discovered, he cannot face reality bravely and hopes to return to his childhood. So he turns his mind to the little girl and transforms the little girl into two images in his mind: one is a lover, and the other is a mother.

5. Other reasons. Some are due to mental retardation, chronic alcoholism, disability, old age or other brain diseases, and have few opportunities to meet normal adult women, so they turn to children to satisfy their sexual desires.

Preventing pedophilia is not just the responsibility of parents

Surveys show that sex offenders have a high recidivism rate, especially sexual perverts such as pedophiles. When criminals commit rape, molestation and other sexual crimes for the first time, they are not punished by the criminal law and do not receive psychological correction, so they are likely to commit crimes again. Sex crimes against children often have the characteristics of weak willingness to report and difficulty in obtaining evidence because the victims are young, which invisibly poses a greater hidden danger to children's safety. Therefore, the protection of children must not be "sweeping the snow in front of the door" by each parent, but a strict social network should be established, and everyone should pay appropriate attention to the physical and mental health of the children around them. Whether you are a kindergarten teacher, school bus driver, social worker, doctor or ordinary neighbor, you can call the police once you find suspicious scars or abnormal behavior on your child. According to regulations, the police must confirm the report after receiving the report.