SUBJECTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF PAEDOPHILIA

Abstract

Pedophilia is not only sexual abuse, but it is the sexual desires, fantasies, or sexual attraction towards pre-pubescent children. The research aims to find and understand the causes of sexually arousing or sexual desires involving prepubescent children. The most relevant theory on paedophilia and its perpetrators. The sexual seduction theory explains the causes behind the seduction of adults towards children and the theory of differential association is relevant to paedophilia and its pedophiles, victims; it explores the role of learning of pedophilic behavior by association of pedophiles, victims to non-pedophiles, non-victims and association of the parents/family towards the victimized children. The researcher collected the data with help of the qualitative research method by interviewing 14 participants. The researcher has preferred the snowball sampling as a research technique to get a better understanding of paedophilia by the means of paedophiles and the victims. The outcome of research clearly explains the paedophiles were helpless at that time when they have victimized the children because there was a time when they were multiple times sexually victimized in their childhood which is why sexual arousal happened. Some participants were also distracted by child pornography and started doing such acts for fulfilling their sexual desires. The parents’/family negligence of the child plays an essential role in the victimization of their child by a paedophile. The basic reason behind the paedophilic acts because of the brain anomalies, sexual arousing, and urges of the paedophiles. they were not listened from their family and peer group. The fear of stigmatization, child pornography, the misuse of authority and power by paedophiles, and inattention of media has become the cause of rising paedophilia for such highly underreported cases in our society. The researcher concluded that paedophilia is not only because of paedophiles but the major cause behind this social and psychological issue is due to the bounded societal rules. Such as public stigmatization, porn websites, sexual abuse in childhood.