Pedophilia

===Anti-pedophile activism===
{{Main |Anti-pedophile activism}}
Anti-pedophile activism encompasses opposition against pedophiles, against pedophile advocacy groups, and against other phenomena that are seen as related to pedophilia, such as child pornography and child sexual abuse.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_crime_report/investigation/cybercrime2.shtml | title = Global Crime Report – INVESTIGATION – Child porn and the cybercrime treaty part 2 – BBC World Service | work = bbc.co.uk | access-date = 2008-01-24 | archive-date = 2010-02-28 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100228030246/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/global_crime_report/investigation/cybercrime2.shtml | url-status = live}}</ref> Much of the direct action classified as anti-pedophile involves demonstrations against sex offenders, against pedophiles advocating for the legalization of sexual activity between adults and children, and against Internet users who solicit sex from minors.<ref name="bbc">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/872436.stm Families flee paedophile protests] {{Webarchive | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090107090309/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/872436.stm | date = 2009-01-07 }} August 9, 2000. Retrieved January 24, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?channel_id=1&story_id=30373 Dutch paedophiles set up political party] {{Webarchive | url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071118220127/http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?channel_id=1&story_id=30373 | date = 2007-11-18 }}, May 30, 2006. Retrieved January 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pjfi.org/ | title = The Perverted Justice Foundation Incorporated – A note from our foundation to you | publisher = [[Perverted-Justice]] | access-date = March 16, 2012 | archive-date = March 14, 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210314210259/http://www.pjfi.org/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="NYT06Dec">{{cite news | first = Allen | last = Salkin | author-link = Allen Salkin | author2 = Happy Blitt | title = Web Site Hunts Pedophiles and TV Goes Along | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E2DB1531F930A25751C1A9609C8B63&sec=&spon= | work = [[The New York Times]] | location = New York, New York | date = 2006-12-13 | access-date = March 16, 2012 | quote = 'Every waking minute he's on that computer,' said his mother, Mary Erck-Heard, 46, who raised her son after they fled his father, whom she described as alcoholic. Mr. Von Erck legally changed his name from Phillip John Eide, taking his maternal grandfather's family name, Erck, and adding the Von. | archive-date = 2009-02-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090224124410/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E2DB1531F930A25751C1A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | url-status = live }}</ref>

High-profile media attention to pedophilia has led to incidents of [[moral panic]], particularly following reports of pedophilia associated with [[Satanic ritual abuse]] and [[day-care sex-abuse hysteria|day care sex abuse]].<ref name = Jewkes1>{{Cite book | first = Yvonne | last = Jewkes | title = Media and crime | publisher = [[SAGE Publications]] | location = Thousand Oaks, California | year = 2004 |pages= [https://books.google.com/books?id=7rSICweU5QYC&pg=PA76 76–77] | isbn = 978-0-7619-4765-3 }}</ref> Instances of [[vigilante|vigilantism]] have also been reported in response to public attention on convicted or suspected child sex offenders. In 2000, following a media campaign of "naming and shaming" suspected pedophiles in the UK, hundreds of residents took to the streets in protest against suspected pedophiles, eventually escalating to violent conduct requiring police intervention.<ref name="bbc"/>