Havelock Ellis's Pedophilia?

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The definition of Pedophilia is the sexual feelings toward children. The first documentation of Pedophilia was in 1886 by a German sexologist Richard-Krafft-Ebing. He believed that Pedophilia was psychosexual perversion, and that there may be a cure. His counterpart Havelock Ellis had presented Pedophilia as an extreme version of one’s masculinity and that it was quite normal to be attracted to children. However, as of today, Pedophilia is understood to be caused by psychological damage throughout early childhood.
According to Levey R. of Sexual and Gender Identity Disorder (2010), to be able to accurately be diagnosed with pedophilia, one must act on their sexual urges or experience distress as a result of the fantasies or urges. The causes

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