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    Washington State had a sterilization program that started in the 1900s. In 1909, a sterilization law was passed that allowed a person to be sterilized if they were involved in pedophilia with a female under age ten, or were guilty of rape. Under this law, sterilization was rare. However, this changed with a new and more general law passed in 1921. This law allowed sterilizations to be performed on people who were considered “feeble minded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates…

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    The Davidson College production of The Great God Pan felt subtly provocative, akin to chasing a light through the hazy void of memory. As in any performance of a play, the adaption of the script to the stage required certain choices to be made. These choices, anything from internal motives to directorial stylistic preferences, are not always specified in the script. Therefore, instances can occur where a character is portrayed differently on stage than one could have possibly assumed from the…

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    Church, for many, is a considered a safe place. A place where one can grow spiritually and become closer to their God. But for thousands of children in the last several decades, it has ironically been, a living hell. 1 Corinthians 6:18 states: “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.” Despite Christian belief placing high emphasis on sexual morality, and members of the Catholic Priesthood being required to…

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    The play “Short Eyes” brings forth many themes and social dynamics. We are able to visualize a society within a society and how each character brings their own individuality to the community. We see the diverse culture within this prison setting; however, we are also able to see the discrimination that takes place within it as well. The main character, Davis Clark, is one of the people who are called “Short Eyes”, prison slang for pedophile, and we apprehend in what ways he is out casted for his…

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    Given these points, Jim Jones forced members to commit to his rules and suffer through cruel punishments if they did not follow him. Members were held captive in Jonestown by patrolling officers around the camp and many wanted to leave. Tim Reiterman, a journalist who survived a shot by Jone's guards while leaving Jonestown, said, "Fifteen people stepped forward [asking to leave], including one entire family, and much of another family, and both of these families were long-time followers of Jim…

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    lady love and finds sexual satisfaction. Gaiman turns a traditional fairytale and twists it to create a haunting tale that is very sexual. The story incorporates themes that are not in the popular Grimm’s versions including vampirism, necrophilia, pedophilia, and…

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    In a world where pedophilia, sexual abuse, and the hypersexualizing of children is commonplace, and where pornography has dulled our senses to sexual imagery, scenes of Regan being raped by the devil or forcing her mother to go down on her come off as not so much avant garde…

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    rules of humanity. For example; Heroine man who used this drugs every day in front of his baby and he killed his wife and his daughter in front of this baby after he was finished raping his daughter and his wife he had begun this baby such as a pedophilia and then the guy who was a psychopath he let this baby to die. How do we see the little line between mental illness and criminally psychopath or those are they going to take resume the responsibility for their behaviors? Actually I do not want…

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    Consensual sex is when one or more participants grant permission and agree to perform in various sexual activities with one another. While reading multiple erotic texts I have found an extremely prominent connection between the asymmetries of consent and how the concept has evolved over multiple time periods. Within the Story of O, O’s consent is portrayed through her many accounts of submission experienced in the chateau. Before the masochist adventures were indulged throughout Venus in Furs,…

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    Love is hopeless. Love is fruitless. Love is good. Love is stupid. Love is kind. Love is biblical. Love is spiritual. Love confuses me. Love is scary. Love can be described as nothing besides love. Love is always in the air, that’s why there are so many b***** children such as the demon, elf child Pearl in the Scarlet Letter. Teenage love is especially terrifying, due to its unpredictability. Do Romeo and Juliet ring a bell? That nymphomaniac Juliet had Romeo committing suicide for her, or was…

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