A child is defined as a prepubescent person, though that age could be anywhere up to about 12 as pubescence has no definitive age. The term paedophilia can also be ascribed to a grown man or woman who has sex with a post-pubescent minor who might be above This might also be called having sex with minors and not classified as a psycho-sexual disorder. The case in point being the fear imposed on us by the media has made the man in the street irrational. The press, especially the British press, loves their paedophiles.
We are made to think they stalk our streets nightly, hide out in toy shops, and like the Bogeyman snatch our kids from the swings in the playground. However in Thailand human trafficking is a major concern.
Children are stolen or sold and exploited regularly, sometimes in order to provide sexual services. It has been said that this unusual minority, the paedophiles, are attracted to this part of the world for that reason. This much I have learned the last week. If they are overly paranoid in the West, we might be inadequately informed here. When they go missing, they leave little trace behind. This part of the world has yet to experience the media conditioning on this subject that most westerners have.
A sense of ethics might this has been an ongoing philosophical argument not be something we are born with, but something we learn. There are paedophiles who have never acted on their impulses or desires, as well as more non-participatory crimes relating to paedophila. When exactly is a crime being committed?
Is looking at an image on the internet a crime? The sites featured many pictures of scantily clad young boys. There was news about the weather, information about places to eat, and there were pictures of these young boys in their undies. Someone could have looked at these sites and not correlated them with paedophilic behaviour. The criminal element is now more profound.
