Pederasty

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 146. Chapters: History of pederasty, Modern pederasty, Pederastic films, Pederastic heroes and deities, Pederastic literature, Apollo, Achilles, Dionysus, Hadrian, Chiron, André Gide, Narcissus, Satyricon, Pope Julius III, Catholic sex abuse cases, Cyparissus, Edward Brongersma, Ampelos, Mary Renault, Judith Reisman, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Troilus, Mark Foley congressional page incident, LGBT themes in mythology, Our Lady of the Assassins, North American Man/Boy Love Association, Ganymede, Sexual Morality and the Law, Hector MacDonald, Achilles and Patroclus, Donald Friend, Bacha bazi, List of books portraying sexual relations between minors and adults, Justin Berry, Gustav Wyneken, Party for Neighbourly Love, Freedom, and Diversity, Ralph Chubb, Mwanga II of Buganda, Karol Szymanowski, Hyacinth, Ephebophilia, Die Konsequenz, Cry to Heaven, Bill Andriette, David Thorstad, Fernando Vallejo, Walter H. Breen, Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte, Marc Allégret, John Henry Mackay, The Persian Boy, Sons, Thomas Cannon, For a Lost Soldier, 33 Snowfish, Brother Tony Leyva, Taboo, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Gates to Paradise, Sandro Penna, Boris Kochno, Fall from Grace, Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths, Pedophile Group, Miletus, Sacred Silence, The Lantern Bearers, Prosymnus, Return to Innocence, Ralph Roister Doister, Rudi van Dantzig, Nerites, Robert Sippel, Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia, Atymnius, Amores. Excerpt: The Catholic sex abuse cases are a series of ongoing investigations into adjudicated sex crimes committed by Catholic priests and members of religious orders. These cases began receiving public attention beginning in the mid-1980s. The attention led to criminal prosecutions of the abusers and to civil lawsuits against the church's dioceses and parishes where abuse was alleged to have occurred. Sexual abuse of minors in the priesthood has received significant media attention in Canada, Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Belgium, France, and Germany, while cases have been reported throughout the world. In addition to cases of actual abuse, much of the scandal has focused around members of the Catholic hierarchy who did not report abuse allegations to the civil authorities and who, in many cases, reassigned the offenders to other locations where the alleged predators continued to have contact with minors and had opportunities to continue to sexually abuse children. In defending their actions, some bishops and psychiatrists contended that the prevailing psychology of the times suggested that people could be cured of such behavior through counseling. Members of the church hierarchy have argued that media coverage has been excessive. In response to the widening scandal, Pope John Paul II emphasized the spiritual nature of the offenses as well. He declared in 2001 that "a sin against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue by a cleric with a minor under 18 years of age is to be considered a grave sin, or delictum gravius." With the approval of the Vatican, the hierarchy of the church in the United States claimed to institute reforms to prevent future abuse including requiring background checks for Church employees and volunteers, while opposing extensions of the statutes of limitations in sex abuse cases. Allegations of sexual abuse by clergy have been made in many countries (see Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country). After the United States, the c