Child sexual abuse Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === In pre-industrial societies === [[Cross-cultural studies]] have reported that sexual relations between men and pubescent girls were sometimes performed for functional reasons in [[Pre-industrial society|pre-industrial societies]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rind |first=Bruce |date=2013 |title=Critique of Hames and Blanchard (2012), Clancy (2012), and Ryniker (2012) on Hebephilia, Anthropological Data, and Maladaptiveness |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10508-013-0132-y |journal=[[Archives of Sexual Behavior]] |language=en |volume=42 |issue=5 |pages=685β691 |doi=10.1007/s10508-013-0132-y |pmid=23760771 |s2cid=254259092 |issn=0004-0002}}</ref> Other accounts of sexual relations between adults and minors have also been registered. A 1951 research document reports [[Siwi people|Siwan]] men engaging with anal intercourse with boys. The report also stated that, among [[Arrernte people|Aranda aborigines]], "pederasty [between a man and a boy between the ages of ten and twelve] is a recognized custom". An 18th century report by [[James Cook]] reported an act of copulation between a man and a female estimated to be 11 or 12 in a public street "without the least sense of it being indecent or improper". In some Oceanic societies, adult men have been reported to have sexual contact with prepubertal females. A 19th century document by missionary John Muggeridge Orsmond reads that "in all [[Tahitians]] as well as officers who come in ships there is a cry for little girls". Other instances of adult-child sexual behaviors have been reported in the [[Marquesas Islands]], [[Polynesia]], [[New Guinea]] and in [[Kaluli people|Kaluli]] societies.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Green |first=Richard |date=2002 |title=Is Pedophilia a Mental Disorder? |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1023/A:1020699013309 |journal=[[Archives of Sexual Behavior]] |volume=31 |issue=6 |pages=467β471 |doi=10.1023/A:1020699013309|pmid=12462476 |s2cid=7774415 }}</ref> Accounts of sexual intercourse between children and adults have also been reported in [[Pederasty in ancient Greece|Ancient Greece]] and Rome.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Williams |first1=Craig A. |title=Roman homosexuality: ideologies of masculinity in classical antiquity |last2=Williams |first2=Craig Arthur |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-511300-6 |series=Ideologies of desire |location=New York, NY}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg |first=Gisela |date=1991-02-04 |title=Pederasty Among Primitives:: Institutionalized Initiation and Cultic Prostitution |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J082v20n01_03 |journal=Journal of Homosexuality |language=en |volume=20 |issue=1β2 |pages=13β30 |doi=10.1300/J082v20n01_03 |pmid=2086628 |issn=0091-8369}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page