Paidika

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Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia (1987–1995) was a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published by the Stichting Paidika Foundation, a Netherlands nonprofit organization. Articles drawn from it are available from a number of pro-pedophile activist websites. Its editor was Joseph Geraci and the editorial board included scientists and authors such as Frits Bernard, Edward Brongersma, Vern L. Bullough, and D. H. (Donald) Mader, some of whom campaigned in pro-pedophile activism. Being a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Paidika was subscribed to by the British Library and by the Library of Congress.^[1]

The journal's name was a form of the Greek adjective meaning "childish", and was used in classical Athens to refer to the younger partner in a pederastic relationship, also known as the eromenos.

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The Paedophile Impulse: Toward the Development of an Aetiology of Child-Adult Sexual Contacts from an Ethological and Ethnological Viewpoint by German sociologist, psychologist, ethnologist, religious scientist, and philosopher Dr. Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg from Paidika, no. 2, 1988, offers an interdisciplinarian^{[citation needed]} scholarly approach to paedophilia - it utilizes and combines data from sociology, psychology, ethnology, religious studies, history, anthropology, ethology, zoology, and philosophy, in order to bring forth a theory of evolution's necessity for pedophilia and adult-child sexual activities in the animal kingdom. Also, this is where one can find Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg's German works on homophobia, gender roles, asceticism, patriarchy, misogyny, and (ascetic) attitudes, with special focus on deviant sexuality in Indo-European and Western history and thought. This work draws upon, among others, Mircea Eliade, Marija Gimbutas, Sigmund Freud, C. G. Jung, Norbert Elias, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Karl Popper, Michel Foucault, and James W. Prescott.^{[citation needed]}