RE: Psychology Addict # 66 | Paedophilia.
It's been a while I read from you. Either I've been too busy or you've not been writing. Nevertheless, I'm glad to be reading about this topic from you.
I'm a bit surprised by this
Still, 24% of abused boys and up to 14% of abused girls revealed their abusers to have been a woman
I've never for once thought about associating pedophilic behaviour with the female gender. I'm not sure it makes the news as much as those associated with males. Perhaps that unconsciously shaped my view that most pedophilic folks are men.
Then, if pedophilia is more of psychological issue, isn't it proper that pedophilic individuals be helped rather than jailed? Take the case of the popular r and b singer, Robert Kelly who's currently serving term due to pedophilic behaviour.
Lastly, I will be sharing this on my twitter account in the hope that it will provoke some discussion. There's a particular tribe here in Nigeria that marries out pre-pubescent female children to full grown adult. I have some of them as followers and I hope they will react to this.
I feel really awesome reading from you again abii. Hope you are doing great along with your beautiful family!
My dearest fried Shaid <3 :) how nice to see your insightful words on my comment feed!
You get it (of course you do!) : Individuals living with paedophilic disorder are in great need of psychological help. And, not only due to their paedophilia tendencies, but also due to a large host of psychopathologies they battle with day-in, day-out.
In my opinion, the ones who go on to act upon their urges should not escape time in prison. After all they've committed a crime. But, this does not take away from them the right to receiving treatment, having a second chance in life and being treated with respect by others.
I am very interested in reading about the Nigeria tribe you mentioned here. I read a long time ago about New Guinean tribes that have this same cultural custom.
We have all been very busy, haven't we? and you still manage to take time to come around and read my work <3 thank you so much my dear friend.
I send you, your wife & the little one bags of love from sunny, but cold Portugal :*