Pedophiles are broken down into three categories or severity levels. List the three levels and define them in your own words focusing on how they are different from each other

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Secretive Pedophile — This person may appear to be totally normal, may be married, may have children of their own and never sexually assault a child. They still share the trait of becoming sexually aroused by children, but may never act on it. Or if they do they may limit their action to acquiring child pornography for the purposes of sexual gratification.

Child Pornography Collector — This person will be an avid collector of child pornography for their own sexual gratification and for trading these illicit images or video to other pedophiles. This person may also never physically victimize a child, although possessing a photograph or video or sharing it with others also re-victimizes that child, albeit at a somewhat lower level. Some have argued that the Secretive Pedophile and Child Pornography Collector are just as bad as the third category, listed below, as they are fueling the market demand for illicit child pornography. This ultimately results in children being victimized in an effort to create a large enough supply of these materials.

Active Pedophile — This is the person who performs some physical act against a child or several children. The active pedophile is one of the people who actually creates or manufactures child pornography by photographing, or taking video of sexual acts against a child. The active pedophile is likely also to keep souvenirs from victims such as the victim's underwear or other articles of clothing. This would also be the pedophile that would fit the old stereotype of the "dirty old man in the van trying to pass out candy" to little kids. In the past, this stereotype is what people used to envision for the pedophile child enticer.