In Japanese society, the attraction towards young girls is a widespread cultural phenomenon. The manifestations of such attraction, such as lolicon art and school uniform fetishes, are more tolerated than in the West, though child pornography is illegal in Japan. Another society with some tolerance for such relationships is Brazil. ...

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While ephebophilic desire is not regulated by any statute, aspects of sexually expressed ephebophilia may be against some laws. Depending on the age of consent in a given jurisdiction, an adolescent may be capable of giving legally-recognised consent to sexual activity. If the younger partner is below that age, it is commonly criminalised as statutory rape, regardless of whether the younger partner agrees to - or even initiates - the activity. Reasons given for this include: Some adolescents are unable to understand the physical ...

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1. Androphilia refers to attraction (especially sexual attraction) to men, whether it be held by men or women. It is also increasingly used when referring to the sexual orientation of transgender and intersex people, since using homo- or heterosexual is not without problems there. (Compare Homosexuality and transgender) 2. In the context of male homosexuality, androphilia is the mutual attraction of adult men. It is to be distinguished from ephebophilia, or the attraction of an adult man to an adolescent male. Whi ...

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Ephebiphobia can manifest in the following main categories : the irrational fear of being near, among or in the company of teenagers; the prejudice on the grounds of age (ageism) towards teenagers or underage adolescents, or the discrimination derived from this prejudice; the fear, prejudice, hatred, intolerance or discrimination referring to love relationships between adults and adolescents, either when it is the manifestation of ephebophilia, of ephebosexuality, or when it is none of them; See also:

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Owen LaFave has been asked to be a part of the documentary After School which will study the problems of teacher/student relationships. Owen has become an advocate and expert in this field and has appeared on over 50 television programs speaking out about what has happened. ...

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The term child pornography (sometimes referred to as CP, child porn, or kiddie porn) generally refers to pornography featuring one or more children; however, a precise definition can be elusive, as the terms "pornography" and "child" vary in definition according to region and country. It is widely prohibited by law, and faces the disapproval of most members of society. Child pornography - Definitions. The definition of "child pornography" differs in various countries. Most prohibit depi ...

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July 1998 - the study by Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman was published in Psychological Bulletin. December 1998 - the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) criticized the study for its methodology and conclusions. It was then attacked by The Wanderer, a Catholic religious newspaper, the talk show host Dom Giordano, Dr. Laura Schlessinger (known on her popular radio talk show as "D ...

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Criticisms of Rind's 1998 study are drawn largely from an article titled "Science or Propaganda?", authored by Dallam, et al. on behalf the Leadership Council. The Council claims it is an organization "whose membership includes many of the nation's most prominent mental health leaders," whose mission it is "to insure the public receives accurate information about mental health issues." However Rind, et al. claim that it is "a recently formed organization of victimologists who had long advocated the validity of recovered memories and MPD" [1]. Whatever the truth regarding the Leadership Council, Dallam's ...

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Ageism is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of age. Although theoretically the word can refer to the discrimination against any age group, ageism usually comes in one of two forms: discrimination against youth, and discrimination against the elderly. Ageism against youth is also known as "Adultism". Some underage teenagers consider themselves victims of ageism and believe they should be treated more respectfully by adults and not as second-class citizens. Some complain that social stratification in age gro ...

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In her book Eichmann in Jerusalem, political theorist Hannah Arendt used the novel to help illustrate her theory of the "banality of evil". She noted that while in prison, Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann was offered Lolita as reading material and refused to read it, calling it "unwholesome". Shortly thereafter, Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) provided an early example of the modern "nymphet" usage entering the literary canon. Serge, a teenage rock singer, loses his girlfriend to a middle-aged lawye ...

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The definition of "child pornography" differs in various countries. Most prohibit depictions of sexual activities involving children of a specified age. Some go further and prohibit all depictions of nudity of minors, regardless of whether the minor is depicted in an erotic pose or engaging in a sex act. This has often led to controversy about pictures that are considered to be of artistic merit, and several prominant photographers, including Sally Mann and Jock Sturges, have had their art challenged and, at times, banned. Still, in some cou ...

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History of sex - The West. In ancient Greece, the phallus was an object of worship as a symbol of fertility. This finds expression in Greek sculpture and other artworks. The ancient Greek male idea of female sexuality was that the women envied penises of males. Wives were considered as commodity and instruments for bearing legitimate children. Wives had to constantly compete sexually with prostitutes and slaves in their own homes. Ancient Greek men believed that refined prostitution was necessary f ...

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History of sex - The West. In ancient Greece, the phallus was an object of worship as a symbol of fertility. This finds expression in Greek sculpture and other artworks. The ancient Greek male idea of female sexuality was that the women envied penises of males. Wives were considered as commodity and instruments for bearing legitimate children. Wives had to constantly compete sexually with prostitutes and slaves in their own homes. Ancient Greek men believed that refined prostitution was necessary f ...

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A scholar, Humbert leaves Europe for the United States and moves into a rented room in the home of Charlotte Haze, after seeing her twelve-year-old daughter (Dolores Haze, affectionately shortened to Lo, or Lolita) sunbathing in the garden. Humbert, who has had a lifelong passion for "nymphets" (attractive pubescent girls)--as a pre-adolescent, he experienced the loss of his childhood sweetheart--is instantly smitten, and will do anything to be near her. The elder Haze, a lonely widow, becomes Humbert's unwitting pawn in his silent quest to ...

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The novel is a tragicomedy narrated by Humbert, who riddles the narrative with wordplay and his wry observations of American culture. His humor provides an effective counterpoint to the pathos of the tragic plot. The novel's flamboyant style is characterized by word play, multilingual puns, anagrams, and coinages such as nymphet, a word which has since had a life of its own and can be found i ...

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Because of the subject matter, Nabokov had difficulty finding a publisher, eventually resorting to Olympia Press, a publisher of "erotica" in Paris, which published Lolita in 1955. A favorable notice by English author Graham Greene led to widespread critical admiration for the book, and its eventual U.S. publication on August 18, 1958, by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Today, it is considered by many o ...

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In 1956, Nabokov penned an afterword to Lolita ("On a Book Entitled Lolita") that was included in every subsequent edition of the book. In the afterword, Nabokov wrote that "the initial shiver of inspiration" for Lolita "was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage". Neither the article nor the drawing has been discovered; however, there has been some speculation that photographs by ...

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Lolita has been filmed twice: the first adaptation was made in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick, and starred James Mason, Shelley Winters, Peter Sellers and, as Lolita, Sue Lyon; and a second adaptation in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, starring Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, and Melanie Griffith. Nabokov was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the earlier film's adapted screenplay, although little of this work reached the screen. The book was adapted into a Broadway musical in the early 1970s by Alan Jay Lerner under the title Loli ...

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There is a strong negative stigma associated with child pornography; most people don't want to be perceived as defending it. At times, legal photographs and art have been attacked on the grounds that they might be child porn. Although the number of such incidents is small, they arguably have had a "chilling effect" on legal expression. In the late 1970s Jacqueline Livingston, a photography professor at Cornell University, was accused of child pornography. She wrote: "I was scorned by my friends, accused of child pornography and fired from my teaching job after exhibiting photographs of my son, my husband and my fa ...

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