1. Child Abuse
... has often been linked with previous emotional, physical, or sexual trauma. This trauma becomes so painful that it results in underdevelopment or a stifling of future development. According to this line of reasoning this underdevelopment will not allow a person to mature emotionally as his or her body matures. The pedophile is the emotional equivalent of a child, and thus depends on them and begins ... , smaller, and weaker than themselves" (Bass and Davis, 1988). Child pornography and advertising have been targeted by some feminists as having a role in the onset of pedophilia (Hunter, 19...
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