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`Pedophilia' became news again when singer Michael Jackson was again charged with molesting a young boy. Is this an increasing problem?

December 2, 2003

MANY centuries ago, pedophilia had a "home" in poems, sonnets and novels. Shakespeare wrote, "the master-mistress of my passions…" and "O, thou, my lovely boy". In his 1929 short story Death in Venice, Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann told of the obsessive love of Gustave Aschenbach, a 50-year-old man, for a beautiful boy named Tadzio. Others said to have led colorful lives full of sexual escapades are Auden, Blake, Oscar Wilde a

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