PedoHelp, a support project that provides information about pedophilia, explains that pedophiles are never monsters or abusers, but people who need help.
https://pedo.help/why-is-pedophiliーa-so-frightening/
There are various theories about the age at which a child is considered a child, but discrimination against pedophiles generally includes discrimination against Lolita complex, hebephilia, and pedophilia(pedosexual).
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/web/t_doc?dataId=00ta0783&dataType=1&pageNo=1https://humonyinter.com/column/med/med-57/
Summary
Activities performed by anti-pedophile vigilante groups have included harassment, including against families of people accused of crimes as well as people wrongly accused, doxing, blackmailing and physical attacks, with some people being killed or having died by suicide after being accused, for which reasons such groups have been widely condemned by law-enforcement and government bodies.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/paedophile-hunters-criminal-proceedings-uk-a9571431.html
(title:Monsters and the monstrous: myths and metaphors of enduring evil |date:2007 |publisher:Rodopi |isbn:978-90-420-2253-9 |editor-last:Scott |editor-first:Niall |series:At the interface, probing the boundaries |location:Amsterdam |chapter:Depraved Paedos and Other Beasts: The Media Portrayal of Child Sexual Abusers in Ireland and the UK)
Pedo hunting
In 2012, Russian neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich launched the Occupy Pedophilia project, in which neo-Nazi vigilantes would pose as young boys on the internet in order to lure adult men, who would then be made to indicate their identity and address in front of cameras. In some instances, vigilantes would write "Fuck LGBT" or draw the Rainbow flag (LGBT)|rainbow flag on the foreheads of their targets, who would sometimes also be shouted at, slapped, have their heads shaved or be forced to drink urine, among other forms of torture. Occupy pedophilia often conflated homosexuality with pedophilia.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17440572.2019.1676738
Social context
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems of the WHO and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) define pedophilia as a mental disorder and not as a sexuality or minority.http://id.who.int/icd/entity/517058174
(American Psychiatric Association ：DSM-IV-TR [Text-Revised] ：Diagnostic criteria for 302.2 Pedophilia. - Newly translated into Japanese by a present writer of the Wikipedia Japan)
Pedophilia is an easy target for intense anger, fear, and rejection, and is easily seen as evil or a sin by the world.
(author:Jahnke, S., Imhoff, R., Hoyer, J.|year:2015|title:Stigmatization of People with Pedophilia: Two Comparative Surveys|journal:Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume:44|issue:1|pages:21–34|doi:10.1007/s10508-014-0312-4|pmid:24948422|s2cid=36369240) It is considered to be one of the most social stigmas of all mental disorders.(author:Jahnke, S., Hoyer, J. | year:2013 | title:Stigma against people with pedophilia: A blind spot in stigma research? | journal:International Journal of Sexual Health | volume:25 | issue:3 | pages:169–184 | doi:10.1080/19317611.2013.795921| s2cid:145656359) People with pedophilia who insist on not having sexual contact with children also suffer from anguish and anxiety, and in some cases contemplate self-loathing and suicide.https://www.bbc.com/japanese/features-and-analysis-41812774 Studies have shown that about 46% of pedophiles have considered suicide because of their sexual interests.(author:Jahnke, S., Hoyer, J. | year:2013 | title:Stigma against people with pedophilia: A blind spot in stigma research? | journal:International Journal of Sexual Health | volume:25 | issue:3 | pages:169–184 | doi:10.1080/19317611.2013.795921| s2cid:145656359)
Legal system
In the U.S., the age of consent for sexual Age of consentintercourse varies from state to state to 16~18 years. As a result, romance between minors and adults is effectively illegal.
Some countries, such as South Korea, Indonesia, and Kazakhstan, as well as some states in the United States, have passed laws requiring the chemical or surgical castration of pedophiles.https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43870883https://www.theinertia.com/news/new-indonesian-law-allows-execution-and-castration-for-pedophiles/
https://kosovapress.com/en/article?id=554329
https://24.kg/english/136954_Chemical_castration_first_applied_to_four_pedophiles_in_Kazakhstan/
In 1998, three psychologists published a paper in the ''Psychological Bulletin'', a journal of the American Psychological Association (APA), stating that "underage sexual activity with adults is not necessarily harmful, and it is necessary to distinguish between coercive and coercive behaviors and those that are not." In response, both houses of the United States Congress passed resolutions strongly condemning the paper, and University of Michigan professor Brian Kim Butler complained about the Congress's response.
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