Most famous male paedophile
Some older adults take sexual satisfaction in contact with children. Where such satisfaction is
interpreted in
general terms this is true of many parents, most of whom do not suspect that their affections
are sexually based.
In a more precise interpretation contact with children may be the only way in which some
adults can experience
orgasm. The following cases may fall into either of these categories. Lewis Carroll (C. L.
Dodgson), the
mathematical expert who created Alice, took immense pleasure (to what degree sexual?) in the
company of little
girls. His is perhaps the best-known example. Francis Kilvert, a clergyman who led a blameless
life in the
nineteenth century, wrote in his I diary - "Shall I confess that I travelled ten miles today over
the hills for a kiss,
to kiss that child's sweet face? Ten miles for a kiss!" After failure to consummate his marriage,
John Ruskin
became infatuated with a girl of ten.