Pedophilia

Athens, Greece, was considered a cultural, political, and philosophical hub of the known world during the Classical Period of Greece, which stemmed from 508 BC-322 BC. Several notable Philosophers rose to fame and notoriety in this time period, including Socrates, one of the founders of modern western philosophy. Socrates was born in 470 BC and would go on to have several notable students, including Plato, who was born in 428 BC. Socrates frequently found himself to be a lightning rod for…

The difference between the sexes has been accentuated in advertisements for years. Companies know the way our society is structured and it gives them an easy split of demographic to pander and sell to. Sex sells, and it sells differently to men than to women. Businesses capitalize and, push their ideals further and further continuing to shape our views of both sexes as a whole. The video Killing us softly 4 clearly shows the drastic differences between how men and women are presented and…

An Analysis of Beauty in Plato’s Symposium The Symposium is Plato’s account of six speeches on the meaning of love. The setting of a symposium is quite telling of Greek culture at that time for it was a culture that failed to emphasize the virtue of self-control. For the Greeks a symposium was a night filled with heavy drinking, sexual indulgence, and other sorts of vulgar entertainment. Such a setting threatens to undermine the validity of an entire work. If, upon examination, Plato’s…

thinking about this question myself, I don’t believe there is a population I wouldn’t feel comfortable working with, however, in saying that I don’t think I would want to provide music therapy to those who have committed rape, first degree murder or pedophilia. Not that I wouldn’t feel comfortable around them, I just don’t think I would be able to personally provide support/therapy to these individuals. I believe this is the first case study I have read that has had group music therapy in it.…

according to the dictionaries define it as synonymous with sexual perversion diverted, “any abnormal sexual behavior; sexual anomaly or deviation, a type of mental disorder characterized by a preference for or obsession with unusual sexual practices, as pedophilia, sadomasochism, or exhibitionism” (de Silva, 2004). paraphilia are disorders of sexual behavior in the compulsive element which strongly limits the sexual repertoire of a person so that the excitement and satisfaction become dependent…

Child of God is a novel by Cormac McCarthy. The book is loosely based off of real life events. Child of God follows the story of Lester Ballard, an outsider in Sevier County, which is in Eastern Tennessee. The novel follows Lester's obsession with pedophilia as well as his decline into necrophilia and murder. The novel begins on Lester's family's property. There is an auction being held to sell his land. Lester breaks into the scene. He is very angry that the auction has started. He threatens to…

Even though it was only around twelve o’clock, Broadway was still mobbed with people. Holden went to a record store to buy a record for Phoebe called “Little Shirley Beans”. He then took a cab up to the park. Holden explains the park as very lousy by saying, “It wasn’t too cold, but the sun still wasn’t out, and there didn’t look like there was anything in the park except dog crap and globs of spi and cigar butts from old men, and the benches all looked like they’d be wet if you sat down on them…

Objectors of marriage privatization are concerned that if the government isn’t regulating marriage, there will be no authority to determine right from wrong. Currently, marriage is defined to exclude dangerous relationships such as incest and pedophilia. The concern that these acts can be part of a non-governed marriage is minor, since, outside of marriage, the United States has laws to protect the people from such wrongs. Another concern of privatizing marriage is following legal issues.…

After much reading and re-exploring the various theories one person remained constant for this application, Sigmund Freud. Being a fan of Carl Jung and finding disappointment in Freud for ending their friendship due to differences of theory. Then, the uncomfortableness of Freud’s thoughts about the psychosexual stages of children gave cause for rethinking possible biasing due to personal experiences. Therefore, the query within is: How can a professional of the MIND, personality, and behavior…

In Sherwood Anderson’s, Winesburg, Ohio, the author intends for the reader to sympathize more with Wing Biddlebaum, a once-proud schoolteacher, over Doctor Reefy, a social recluse. The style with which Anderson wrote each character played a significant role as to how the readers will interpret them. Readers can sympathize with the type of isolation that was forced upon Wing Biddlebaum more than the self-imposed isolation of Doctor Reefy. The accusations made against Wing which forced him out of…