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Symbol used by pedophile organizations
The symbol is composed of one adult female heart (pink) and one adult male heart (blue). Together with the two smaller hearts for a girl and a boy, they represent the wings of a butterfly.
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Current attempts of pedophiles to organize are not likely to go very far. First of all, the general hostility they encounter prevents most potentially interested individuals from joining. Second, the demands of pedophiles for lowering the age of consent or even for the complete abolition of age limits for sexual contact have no hope of being granted. Third, the small organizations that do exist are in constant danger of being infiltrated and subverted by unsavory characters who use the organizational cover for their own selfish ends: Producing, finding and exchanging “child pornography”, dicovering opportunities for approaching children, etc. Nevertheless, this has not discouraged some pedophiles and hebephiles from forming advocacy groups of their own. A few of their concerns deserve public discussion and are, in fact, shared by some psychiatrists, lawyers, law enforcement officers, and other professionals: Removal of the diagnosis of pedophilia from psychiatric handbooks, revision of laws defining everyone under 18 as a child, conducting more research on the subject, educating the public, helping pedophile prisoners, etc. However, all in all, adult sexual contact with children and juveniles remains such a forbidden subject that not much of a change can be expected in the foreseeable future. In the meantime, not only pedophiles, but also hebephiles remain isolated sexual outsiders who cannot hope to win recognition as sexual minorities. They keep trying to organize, but encounter massive resistance from all sides.
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