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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize and ensure veracity and freedom from bias of information in articles involving pedophilia, child sexuality, and related issues.

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[edit] About

WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch

[edit] Scope

The purpose of this project is to get articles on the subject out of protection, disputation, and tagged status and create excellent, encyclopedic articles which have broad consensus and may remain stable.

[edit] Goals

  1. Achieve, to the extent possible, a scholarly, generally agreed-upon, scientifically accurate, culturally accurate, and clear terminology to be used in pedophilia/childlove-related articles.
  2. Edit selected articles concerning pedophilia (see "Articles under consideration", above) to achieve an accurate, verified, NPOV state.

[edit] Parentage

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[edit] Related projects and Wikiportals

[edit] Subprojects

(none at this time)

[edit] News and alerts

[edit] Alerts


There is an ongoing dispute at Talk:Neil Goldschmidt about whether the section describing Neil Goldschmidt's sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl may include a link to the article on child sexual abuse. A request for comment has been placed, and the attention of experienced editors and admins on this topic would be welcome. --SSBohio 13:12, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Project news


[edit] Articles under consideration

For better or worse, a goodly number of articles have been tagged over time - list here: [1]. Whether this largescale tagging is productive or not I don't know. Herostratus (talk) 17:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tasks

  1. Ongoing: develop an agreed-upon stable sourced terminology. See Terminology section, Terminology subpage for details.
  2. See "Articles under consideration", above.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Terminology

[edit] Child

"The term "child" does not have a single generally agreed-upon scientific or scholarly definition and might be used in different contexts to cover different age ranges. As can be seen below, the term "child" (aside from its other meanings such as "offspring") has three separate and distinct meanings.

  • One definition is: a person between birth (or infancy) and the beginning of puberty:
    • Child is defined by Merriam-Webster as "a young person especially between infancy and youth"[2] "Youth" is then defined as "the period between childhood and maturity"[3], with "maturity" being defined as "full development".[4], [Michael Agnes (ed.), Webster's New World College Dictionary, 2001, IDG books, ISBN 0028631188]
    • The American Heritage Dictionary defines "child" as "A person between birth and puberty".[5]
    • Wiktionary defines "child" as "An unborn or young person, a minor, especially one who has not yet entered into puberty".[6]
    • Yourdictionary.com defines "child" as "a boy or girl in the period before puberty".[7]
    • Wikipedia's article Child opens with "A child is a human being between birth and puberty."
  • Another definition is: a person between birth (or infancy) and the end of puberty:
    • The Random House Webster's College Dictionary [2001, New York, Random House, ISBN 0375426000] defines "child" as "a person between birth and full growth".
    • This same definition is lifted by Dictionary.com.[8]
  • A third definition is: a minor:
    • The term "child" is defined in the U.N.'s Convention on the Rights of the Child: "A child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless, under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier."[9][10][11][12][13]
  • Some sources use a precise age cutoff that is not the age of majority:
    • Black's Law Dictionary defines "child" thus: "[A]t common law, a person who has not reached the age of 14." [Bryan A. Garner, Black's Law Dictionary 8th edition, 2004, Thompson West, ISBN 0314151990]
  • Some sources give multiple definitions with no emphasis given to any one:
    • Wikipedia's article Child formerly opened with "The term child varies according to time and place, as well as to the discourse (legal, psychological, biological, religious) in which the term is used." (This definition is then referenced to the Oxford English Dictionary[14], which is a pay site.)
    • The Oxford American Dictionary [Erin McKean, The New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd edition), 2005, New York, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195170776] defines "child" as "A young human being below the age of full physical development or below the age of majority".

For this reason, use of the term "child" in articles should be used with care, and where possible other more precise terms should be substituted. When the term "child" alone is used for convenience or to avoid stylistic awkwardness, editors should make an effort to clarify more precisely which populations they are writing about, at least on the first use, unless this is clearly obvious from the context.

[edit] Alternative terms

Alternative words to "child", and related terms of interest, include:

  • A minor is person under the age of legal adulthood, and the term may be taken to mean a person under the age of 18, unless specified otherwise, since 18 is the age of legal adulthood in the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions. The term juvenile is basically a synonym but should generally be avoided as being less precise (the term has other, non-legal definitions).
  • A pubescent child is someone who has begun, but not completed, the process of sexual maturation. According to Puberty, this can normally cover an age range of 9-23 (not even counting extreme cases). Therefore this term should only be used when referring to physical attributes, and not normally as shorthand for a specific age range. The term "pubertal" is actually more precise but is less common.
  • A peripubescent child is one in the "early stages" of puberty. "Early stages" is an inexact term. (A specific Tanner Stage may be described, but Tanner Stage is not a commonly understood term.)
  • A pre-pubescent child is a person who has not begun puberty. (N.B.: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, in its online summary, when describing pedophilia, appears to define "prepubescent" as "under the age of 13". This is in contrast to other sources which generally define puberty as not having such a clearly defined boundary.)
  • An adolescent is a person undergoing the period of psychological and social transition between childhood and adulthood (contrast to puberty, which describes the physical transition). "Adolescent" and "pubescent child" overlap, but the boundaries of adolescence are more loosely defined. The same care must be taken as with "pubescent child", only even more so.
  • A pre-adolescent or pre-adolescent child is a person who has not begun adolescence.
  • A teen or teenager is a person between the ages of 13 and 19, inclusive.
  • Preteen is generally taken to mean, approximately, persons of about ages 10-12 or 11-12. If used, the population meant should be described on first use.
  • A person under the age of consent (there is no shorter term) is just that. Age of consent is a legal term, which varies in different jurisdictions, typically running about ages 12-16, inclusive, with close-in-age exemptions complicating the matter. In some jurisdictions, "age of consent" has no meaning as there is no corresponding law.
  • Youth (as a concrete noun) is too imprecise or uncommon for article use, generally.
  • Kid is too informal for article use.
  • A legal adult is someone who has achieved the age of legal adulthood (age of majority). The less common term "major" also means this.[15]
  • Adult can be taken to mean a person who has completed puberty, or a person who has completed adolescence, or a legal adult. Because of this imprecision, the term should be used carefully, and the definition meant should be explained on first use.

Some terms that might be considered for use. These are neologisms and should be defined on first use.

  • A minor teen or teen minor is a person between the ages of 13 and 17, inclusive (assuming the age of majority in the given context is 18).

[edit] Pedophile/paedophile and related terms

Paedophile is the spelling used by the World Health Organization and is thus slightly preferred, although either spelling is acceptable in articles.

  • Pedophilia
    • The Oxford English Dictionary defines "paedophile" as "a person with paedophilia, i.e. an abnormal especially sexual love of children."[16]
    • The ICD-10 defines paedophilia as "[a] sexual preference for children, boys or girls or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age."[17]
    • The DSM-IV-TR defines paedophilia as "Over a period of at least 6 months, recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children; The person has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty."
  • Childlover (or "girllover" or "boylover"): terms preferred by some paedophiles for self-identification.
  • Pedosexual: term used when positing pedophilia as a third major division of sexual orientation, along with heterosexual and homosexual. Neither the concept nor term are generally accepted, and use of the term for scholarly purposes is fringe, and for encyclopedic purposes, inappropriate.
  • Persons commonly called paedophiles who are not paedophiles for scholarly encyclopedic purposes:
    • Ephebophile (also Hebephile): [An adult who has] "A sexual or romantic preference for, or especial attraction to, adolescents." It is idiomatically common, but not scholarly, to call such persons paedophiles.
    • Pederast: a male homosexual Ephebophile. It is idiomatically common, but not scholarly, to call such persons paedophiles.
    • child sex offender, also called "child sex abuser", or "child molester" (the latter term being deprecated for scholarly use). Some child sex criminals are also paedophiles, but not necessarily. It is idiomatically common, but not scholarly, to call all such persons paedophiles.

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  • WP:NPOV#Undue_weight modifies NPOV against giving too much (or perhaps any) notice to points of view held by tiny minorities. See also WP:FRINGE.

[edit] Participants

[edit] Subpages

  • /Watchlist - artificial watchlist.
  • /Ham & Eggs - list of banned users with editing history on project-related topics.

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[edit] Articles, categories, and links

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(Add appropriate links as known - many of the above articles also contain links. Presence of a link does not imply that project members warrant its veracity or usefullness.)

[edit] Papers

  • "Pedophilia and Temporal Lobe Disturbances" in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, Winter 2000, page 71-76.
  • D. Finkelhor, S. Araji: Explanations of pedophilia: A four factor model. Journal of Sex Research 22:2 (1986), pp. 141-161. (concerning cause).
  • K. Freund, R. Watson, R. Dickey: Does sexual abuse in childhood cause pedophilia: an exploratory study. Archives of Sexual Behavior 19:6 (1990), pp. 557-568. (abstract; concerning cause).
  • S. Gordon. Predisposing factors in pedophilia. Dissertations Abstracts International 50:7, 1989. (concerning cause).
  • V.L. Quinsey, M.E. Rice, G.T. Harris, K.S. Reid: The phylogenetic and ontogenetic development of sexual age preference in males: conceptual and measurement issues. In: H.E. Barbaree, W.L. Marshall, S.M. Hudson (eds.): The juvenile sex offender. New York: The Guildford Press, 1993, pp. 143-163. (concerning cause).
  • P. Wright, J. Nobrega, R. Langevin, G. Wortzman: Brain Density and Symmetry in Pedophilic and Sexually Aggressive Offenders. Annals of Sex Research 3 (1990), pp. 319-328.
  • Cantor JM, Klassen PE, Dickey R, Christensen BK, Kuban ME, Blak T, Williams NS, Blanchard R: Handedness in pedophilia and hebephilia. Archives of Sexual Behavior, August 2005, 34(4):447-59 (abstract)
  • Briere J, Runtz M (1989). University males' sexual interest in children: predicting potential indices of "pedophilia" in a nonforensic sample. (abstract; survery of undergraduates concerning admitted attraction to children).

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(Note: due to editor error the actual page history for this page from January 20 2006 to February 7 2006, not of any especial interest, is at User:Herostratus/Pedophilia, which is now a redirect page.)