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While the intention of the law and aggressive campaign was to prosecute "sugar daddies" and "pedophiles," the average age of men charged with defilement was twenty-one years old and many were believe to be "boyfriends" in consensual sexual liaisons with the alleged victims.
(The Vimalakirti Sutra, seventh century: "This body is like a flame born of longing and desire… This body is impure, crammed with defilement and evil… This body is like the abandoned well on the hillside, old age pressing in on it. This body has no fixity, but is destined for certain death").
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The Theravadans have a useful term for just what it is that we grapple with, "defilements".
In Uganda, most parents choose to negotiate with those suspected of defilement because of material gain.
Reports of girls and women who had been victims of rape and defilement by men with guns were common.
Throughout the discussions the major themes linking HIV to insecurity emerged and these were; congestion in camps associated with moral decadence, rape and defilement, sex for money and other material gains, increasing poverty, and the general breakdown in the health care system including shortage of HIV counselling and testing services.
The most frequently reported forms of war related sexual violence among women included defilement (14.5%), abduction with sex (7.9%), attempted rape (4.9%), forced marriage (4.4%) and heterosexual rape-single episode (4.2%).
Sumo's ancient roots are entwined with Japan's indigenous Shinto religion that detests defilement, especially death and blood.
"I am so tired of war and so disgusted with this place, and so vexed at the defilement of my works that I don't think I will make any further resistance," he told Amanda.
Turner's subject is the way a district's history of poverty, defilement, and petty retribution can coexist with, and be elevated by, its trade in beauty and every kind of physical and spiritual release.
The human struggle has a negative aspect, nonetheless, in that it must strive for purity and avoid defilement by the forces of death, contact with dead matter, etc.
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