ABSTRACT
Paedophiles may feel that the world is a set of sexualised relations, that the children they desire are in turn full of sexual desires, and that it is impossible to forgo this unique source of pleasure. One of the effects to which child sexuality is subjected is the paedophilic relationship, which offers the child an opportunity to fill the intolerable emptiness felt as a consequence of not having been 'listened to' and not having had his or her pregenital sexual and emotional needs 'contained'. According to Devereux paedophilia can be attributed to fathers' lack of interest in their children, who attempt to compensate for the 'absence' of their father with other adult men. The child's complicity following the allurement, which is noted sometimes in paedophilic relationships, must not be mistaken for reciprocity, but must be associated with phenomena of premature adult-like behaviour. The characteristic of narrow-mindedness in mental cruelty goes hand in hand with the boring monotony of paedophilic behavior.
