El Halekína en Afganistán - tres artículos de la prensa anglosajona sobre los pastunes 
Los tres artículos que he traducido son de los diarios principales. Relatan en tono espeluznante las relaciones entre niños y hombres.
 Hablan con horror de la pedofilia. Les fascinan los niños inocentes que quedan marcados para toda la  vida una vez que caen en las garras de esos hombres. Califican a la gente como notoria, con inclinaciones extrañas y una obsesión con la sodomía. Cuando los diarios se cansan de denunciar todo esto, se burlan de ello, llamando la ciudad más grande de la región, Kandahar, un "Sodoma y Gomorra con arena".     
La realidad es diferente. Los "niños" son adolescentes. Se les corteja antes de que consientan a una relación. Es una costumbre que lleva muchos años. 

Hansen, Chris, What can be done to stop predators? NBC News Feb. 3, 2006 
Chris Hansen spoke to Dr. Fred Berlin, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Berlin has over 25 years of experience working with sexual offenders. 
'Some can be easily treated, some can't... and you've got the whole group in between,' says Fred Berlin, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. 
I've worked in this area for many years. And the findings surprised even me because what they found was, as a group, sex offenders have a lower rate of recidivism than people who commit other kinds of serious offenses. And yet the public perception, most of public policy, the way in which we view this problem today, is based upon exactly the opposite assumption. 

Harper, David, Sex offenders challenge laws concerning where they may live; Tulsa World, September 2, 2006 
A group of anonymous Tulsa County sex offenders who are represented by an ACLU attorney filed a lawsuit in Tulsa federal court Friday challenging Oklahoma laws dealing with where they may live. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, claims that hundreds of people on Oklahoma's sex-offender registry are being forced to move from their homes, leave their jobs and stop attending their churches as a result of recently enacted state laws. 

Hartley, Eric, Molesters getting a slap on the wrist? Lack of jail time in cases sparks sentencing debate; The Capital, Annapolis, Md., April 22, 2007
The two recent county cases, among others, have sparked public debate about how the courts handle child sex abusers. 
On one side are those who say courts are too lenient and need to impose long prison sentences to protect the public. 
On the other side, some judges and experts say a psychiatric problem can't be cured by incarceration and the best way to protect children in the long run is to give offenders mental health treatment.

Heidi, interview with -, Paidika, 1991
Heidi is an attractive Danish woman of 24, a mixture of shyness and tomboyish behavior; slim, blond, with an intense interest in the world. The interview took place in her house in Copenhagen, in the fall of 1990.
Heidi: When I was thirteen I wasn't particularly interested in school, just going there like everybody else. I was a bit fast, a tomboy. I liked to party and have fun.
One day our teacher was sick and we got a new substitute teacher. She was cute and very charming; rather young too, at least in my mind. I think she was 28. She had a strong personality. The whole class talked about her; the boys were madly in love with her, and I fell in love with her too.

About
Heins, Marjorie:

Hekma, Gert, The drive for sexual equality; 2007 
The great enigmatic change, according to me, is the transformation from theories
and practices of sexual desire that stress the absolute necessity of inequality to
those that reject such ideas and put an emphasis on egalitarian, even pure erotic relations. 
For most of human history, sexual bonds were inherently unequal. [...]
Since Romanticism an ideology of sexual equality has come into play. [...]
It is amazing to witness the radical change of a theory and practice of desire that is founded in social inequalities of gender, age and class to a new ideology in which love mainly arises between equal partners. This development continues with always growing force, parallel to a transformation from a homo social to a hetero-social organization of society. [...]
The most surprising part of this revolution is its radicalism. 

Hemmingway, Sam; Paquette's therapist a child molester, lawsuit says; The Burlington Free Press, August 31, 2008 
A church therapist hired by the state's Roman Catholic diocese to treat the Rev. Edward Paquette for fondling boys in Burlington in the 1970s was himself a child molester, according to court papers on file in Massachusetts. 

Hewitt, Sue; Vigilantes attack 'God-fearing' man; Sunday Herald Sun (Australia), November 05, 2006 
SUBURBAN vigilantes have attacked a man they wrongly believed to be a pedophile and warned Broadmeadows residents of his presence by letter. The man has been threatened, had his windows smashed, gates padlocked and letterbox sabotaged in a campaign of harassment spanning two months.

Higonnet, Anne, Conclusions Based on Observation, The Yale Journal of criticism, 9.1, 1996
Childhood has become sacrosanct. Americans place a high value on child hood not only because we care about how actual adults treat actual children, but also because we freight childhood so heavily with ideals. Once upon a time, the values of innocence, purity, and nature could be variously located. Now we only seem able to find them in what we imagine to be the beleaguered bastion of childhood. If natural pure innocence is equated with a complete absence of sexuality--as it commonly is now in the United States--then sexual abuse of children violates the ultimate social taboo. From there it takes one step to blame child pornography. And one step more to censorship. Two dangerous steps.
[...] To me, the Neils look parentally erotic. To me--and I know I am speaking personally--they represent my maternal passion for my son's body. How many times have I stared adoringly at him, caressed him, kissed him, hugged him, inhaled his infant breath like the smell of life? I long for him physically when we are apart, to hold him close is bliss. During the first years of his life I spent most of my time with him caring for his body: feeding him, cleaning him, rocking him to sleep--not out of obligation but with love.

Hood, Lynley, Demonising any class of people is wrong, Wednesday, 29-May 2002. 
Demonising any class of people as devoid of humanity and beyond redemption
is wrong. There are dangers in the parallels between the Christchurch Civic Crèche case and the recent conviction of Raymond White that we ignore at our peril.

How Our Paranoia About Paedophilia Is Compromising Bonds Of Trust, Obsession that now blights every man's love for a child; 7th December 2000 [Author & source unknown]
I see men holding back when they might have picked a child up, rejecting hugs, making excuses.
I see parents, too, reining their children in, over nannying them, shutting them away. This generation of children will go through their teenage years without their parents bringing out bath-time pictures to embarrass them in front of their girlfriends and boyfriends, they're too scared to take bath-time pictures in case people (the developers? the police?) misconstrue them.
The reason for this caution is our obsession with paedophilia and it is an obsession, make no mistake.
We have no evidence of a higher incidence of paedophilia now than there ever was yet we are more frightened than we have ever been. We 'see' paedophiles at every street corner, by every school gate 

Hudak, Andy, Low-risk sex offenders should be treated rather than locked up; Andy Hudak, Daily Interlake, Jan 03, 2007 
The actual statistic is a 3.8 percent re-offense rate over three years! This was also across ALL levels of risk. [...] Montana's prison and outpatient programs have consistently
demonstrated recidivism rates of less than 1 percent per year. [...]
Let's support rational laws and interventions that are successful and based on scientific facts -- NOT the part of our brains that think black-and-white, deal with fear through punishment and
repression, and is responsible for much of the prejudice and suffering in the world. 

About
Human Rights Watch:
International Human Rights Organization Begins Investigation of U.S. Sex Offender Policy; April 2006 
HRW's US Program is currently conducting research about state sex offender registries, specifically focusing on how broad the registries are, and the effect that widespread community notification has on the ability of registered sex offenders (RSOs) to find a place to live free from harassment and acts of vigilantism. 

Hume, Mick, Castrate this sick debate. Not another British paedophile panic? The unhealthy obsession with child sexual abuse should stop. Full stop. Mick Hume; spiked-online; 14 June 2007  
The public obsession with paedophiles is also an expression of how deeply many of us now mistrust each other, and indeed ourselves, in a fragmented society of insecure individuals. The paedophile becomes not just the shadowy stranger out there, but the beast within the community, within the family, maybe even within you. This is the fear the government's latest 'awareness' campaign about abuse at home can only feed. It is already having a destructive impact on not just adult-child but also adult-adult relationships, as men feel wary of volunteering to work with kids and children are 'protected' from unsupervised contact with grown-ups.

Hutchinson, T.E., Fear of Pedophiles is Irrational; Consensual Touching of Children Should Be Legalized; 5/11/2006, The Hawaii Reporter. 
Pedophilia-phobia, an irrational fear of pedophiles, is sweeping the nation. It is based primarily on the false notion that anyone with an attraction to minors cannot control themselves. The existence of draconian laws plays into this falsehood because only those who are accused of committing crimes come to the attention of the public, or for that matter, nearly anyone's attention. It is characterized by stereotyping (assuming that an individual has traits and behaviors generally associated, rightly or wrongly, with a group) and demonizing.