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Originally Posted by Giancarlo
What he committed is both pedophilia and sexual harassment. I don't want gay people associated with pedophiles. That's something we have to deflect and criticize. For decades, the psychological and medical communities in this country were convinced that homosexuals were in the same group as pedophiles, and often many believed that they were child molesters themselves.
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Mr. Foley, is not, strictly speaking a pedophile, at least, not in the accepted medical usage. The term, however, if often used in situations like this as noted below. I used the word this way earlier in this thread. Whatever the correct usage should be, the law, another thing entirely, has its own logic. I can only imagine that Mr. Foley is railing against his own stupidity at this moment.
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Pedophilia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pedophilia or paedophilia is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to prepubescent or peripubescent children. Persons with this attraction are called pedophiles.
In contrast to the generally accepted medical definition, the term pedophile is also used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent, as well as those who have sexually abused a child.
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