Landini Tatiana Savoia
Departamento de Sociologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brasil.
Cad Saude Publica. 2003;19 Suppl 2:S273-82. doi: 10.1590/s0102-311x2003000800009. Epub 2004 Mar 8.
This paper define the characteristics of pedophilia as it appears in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, including both the characteristics of the pedophile and the reasons given for such behavior. The research employs a technique called analysis by opposition which means that news coverage on other forms of sexual violence against children (sexual abuse, child pornography, rape, and incest) is used to help shed light on the characteristics of pedophilia itself. Some 384 articles were analyzed, of which 114 referred to pedophilia, all published between 1994 and 1999. News on sexual abuse of children was biased by concepts of class and violence/illness, reiterating the lay view that violence can be either a result of barbarianism and poverty or of psychological disorder, both depending on the aggressor's social class. The theoretical perspective adopted, that there is a correlation between media and reality, indicates that this bias is shared by Brazilian society as a whole.
本文界定了出现在巴西报纸《圣保罗页报》上的恋童癖特征，包括恋童癖者的特征以及对这种行为给出的原因。该研究采用了一种名为对立分析的技术，这意味着对针对儿童的其他形式性暴力（性虐待、儿童色情制品、强奸和乱伦）的新闻报道被用来帮助阐明恋童癖本身的特征。共分析了约384篇文章，其中114篇涉及恋童癖，所有文章均发表于1994年至1999年之间。关于儿童性虐待的新闻受到阶级观念以及暴力/疾病观念的影响，重申了一种普遍看法，即暴力要么是野蛮和贫困的结果，要么是心理障碍的结果，这两者都取决于攻击者的社会阶层。所采用的理论观点，即媒体与现实之间存在关联，表明这种偏见为整个巴西社会所共有。
