Pedophilia

The Dangers of being Certain Though doubt has always held a negative connotation in my mind, a dark shadow that looms over certainty, truth, and progress, John Patrick Shanley, through his film, not only claims but makes us feel quite the opposite: that doubt is in fact a valuable asset in gaining an objective view when determining “good” from “bad” and discovering the truth. Stanley utilises the two main characters in his film to depict the dangers of acting upon certainty without doubt. I…

many, especially parents, to the question of who do pedophiles choose to attack and how do they gain the opportunity? As defined by the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, pedophilia is “recurrent sexually arousing fantasies, impulsive desires, or behaviors involving sexual acts with a child and that occur over a period of at least six months.”…

Center (NSVRC), which reports that “one in five women” will be raped at some point in their lives and “one in four girls” will be sexually abused before they turn eighteen years old. Jacobs ' ordeal with Dr. Flint 's sexual suggestions and plans for pedophilia, are not a problem trapped in a distant past and lost to the fog of history. She makes an observation that “slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women … they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications…

Warren Jeffs, one of the Utah and Arizona polygamous leader’s, placed on the FBI’s ten most wanted fugitives list, and is now in prison with charges of pedophilia and child abuse. Other men like Jeffs take part in underage courtships, in small isolated polygamous communities known as the Order, ran by the Fundamental Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) in Salt Lake City, Utah. These isolated polygamous communities belong to multiple families that consist of one man married to multiple women,…

As a Christian, when someone mentions marriage, it is an instinct to instantly picture a man and a woman, due to our views. However, times have changed and society has begun to accept other forms of marriage such as polygamist families. Within these families, they believe that it is their right to have multiple spouses, especially men. How is this accepted within society? According to Christian’s, one man and one woman should marry and stay faithful to their one spouse. Conversely, other…

The topic of underage courtships in polygamous communities has been an ongoing debate since the late 1850’s and is currently being argued in places all around the world. These types of marriages restrict freedom of women and young children, because men are married to more than one wife, men in polygamous marriages are given full power over each family unit, and these women and young children are often left to live in poverty. However, there are many different cultures that practice polygamy,…

There are many topics out there to choose from. Sex trafficking in Thailand, AIDS in Africa, or the African Food Crisis of 2011. (globalissues.org) The topic chosen is one that isn’t just happening in Russia. It happens all over the world. The topic is “Human Rights - LGBT” and the paper will focus on Russia. History and Demography With a population of 142.470.272, Russia is a huge country. Out of all the people in Russia only 29.918.757 people believe that homsexuality is an orientation that…

Whiteness, though it may seem like just a color or lack thereof of one’s skin, is a very complex social construct of which people have a variety of different understandings. People discuss and argue the many aspects that go in to whiteness as well as the consequences, both positive and negative, of it. There is no cohesive, completely accurate definition of whiteness as a concept, only a variety of theories that connect or relate in some way to provide a deeper understanding of whiteness and…

One of the most important factors of marriage is intimacy and only two share that special bond with one another. It is between a man and a woman that way they may have children and reproduce. Since same sex marriage goes against all of this, how is it actually marriage? Children need both a man and a woman as role models, children in these unions are more prone to becoming homosexual, and children who are involved in any type of homosexuality are more likely to be bullied. Legalizing same…

Impression management skills are very apparent in Private Practice, a TV show in which doctors co-collaborate in a private practice called Ocean Wellness. Violet Turner is a psychiatrist who interacts with patients ranging from kids to criminals. On the occasion when her patient is a pedophile, she exercises impression management skills and attempts to eliminate any judgments in order to do her job. In the second scene, Dr. Turner interacts with a psychiatric patient introducing Goffman’s front…