{"id":5918,"date":"2021-12-15T20:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enorcerna.com\/wiki\/psychology\/the-4-differences-between-pedophilia-and-pederasty-explained\/"},"modified":"2021-12-15T20:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T20:03:55","slug":"the-4-differences-between-pedophilia-and-pederasty-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enorcerna.com\/wiki\/psychology\/the-4-differences-between-pedophilia-and-pederasty-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4 Differences Between Pedophilia and Pederasty (Explained)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Every time we read or hear a story about a case of child sexual abuse, our skin crawls and we wonder how there can be people sick enough to perpetrate such atrocities on defenseless children. And it is that this panorama becomes terrifying when we discover that, according to the WHO, 1 in 5 children is a victim of sexual abuse<\/strong> before reaching seventeen.<\/p>\n

And we must not go to underdeveloped countries to run into this reality. In fact, 20% of children in Europe, the United States and Canada have been sexually abused. And with these figures, we cannot deny that child sexual abuse is another pandemic that, incomprehensibly, is not on the social or political agenda of advanced countries.<\/p>\n

Even so, for all the stigma surrounding this horrible topic, it is normal that there are concepts associated with child sexual abuse that we do not know as well as we should. And one of the most common mistakes we usually make is to consider that a \"pedophile\" and a \"pedophile\" are the same. But they are not synonymous. Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to children, while pedophilia is the act of committing sexual abuse against them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In any case, as this simple differentiation is not contemplating all the important nuances associated with this topic, in today's article and with the purest will to speak openly about this problem in order to promote knowledge about it, we are going to detail the main differences between pedophilia and pedophilia.<\/p>\n

What is pedophilia? And pedophilia?<\/h2>\n

Before going into depth and presenting the most important differences between the two concepts in the form of key points, it is interesting (but also important) that we put ourselves in context and understand, individually, what pedophilia and pedophilia consist of. Therefore, we are going to detail exactly who is a pedophile and who is a pedophile.<\/p>\n

Pedophilia: what is it?<\/h3>\n

Pedophilia is the sexual attraction that an adult experiences towards children<\/strong> of the same or different sex. Thus, we are facing a paraphilia, a type of sexual disorder that is based on recurring fantasies about sexual contact with children and the excitement produced by imagining having sex with minors. A pedophile is one who is involuntarily sexually attracted to children.<\/p>\n

Also known as pedophilia, the concept of \"pedophilia\" dates back to Ancient Greece, where sexual relations between teachers and students were common to foster ties between them. Even so, as is obvious, to this day this paraphilia is considered something extremely horrible.<\/p>\n

Hence many pedophiles, who they really hate having this desire that emerges from a sexual disorder<\/strong>, do not seek psychological help for fear that people think that they will materialize these wishes with sexual abuse of children. Most of them never comply with these wishes for moral reasons, but over time and without psychological help, a pedophile can go from the \u201csimple\u201d attraction towards children to aggression, at which point we would already speak of a pedophile.<\/p>\n

So, as strange as it sounds, pedophilia is not bad on its own. That is, at the end of the day it is a mental disorder that the person cannot control and as long as the person has the strength to prevent this attraction from materializing with child abuse or with the consumption of child pornography (which is also obviously a crime) , they should not be stigmatized. Non-offending pedophiles are sick people who, more than anyone, want to solve this paraphilia.<\/p>\n

And although it is very difficult to change the stigma we have in society, rather than marking them as depraved, we should encourage them to seek treatment for their disorder<\/strong>. In this way, we would prevent many of them from becoming offending pedophiles, that is, pedophiles. But we will come to define this concept.<\/p>\n

In short, a pedophile is a person who involuntarily suffers from a paraphilia based on sexual attraction to children but who does not attempt to have sexual relations with them. He resorts to the imagination to stimulate himself based on his fantasies (or with child pornography, in which case we would already be facing something more serious that is punishable by prison sentences) but generally hating the disorder he suffers. Most repress their wishes, but others materialize them. And in this case we would be facing pedophilia.<\/p>\n

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