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Published in Lester D. Friedman, Therese Jones, Routledge Handbook of Health and Media, 2022
To end his suffering, he castrates himself with a kitchen knife, then heads to the local park and playground from which he is banned, nearly hidden from view by the night. Sitting, nearly bleeding to death, his bully, Larry, comes to his rescue after apologizing for contributing to his mother’s death. By castrating himself, Ronnie commits the very act that many in society, such as Larry, demand when they learn of “a pedophile living among them.” But here, Ronnie’s story of illness shows us that he is a person suffering from Pedophiliac Disorder, that he is socially and cognitively disabled from leading a life that he desires without hurting others. Unfortunately, it takes a physical act of self-mutilation to drive the point that pedophilia is a complex “illness of sex” and not simply one man’s erotic desire for children; he is someone’s son and a member of a community who is not afforded the clinical, emotional, and social help that he needs.
Nosology, Etiology, and Course of Gender Identity Disorder in Children
Published in Robin M. Mathy, Jack Drescher, Childhood Gender Nonconformity and the Development of Adult Homosexuality, 2020
Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood (GIDC) first appeared in the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM; American Psychiatric Associaton, 1980), grouped with Ego-Dystonic Homosexuality, Premature Ejaculation, and Zoophilia as one of the Psychosexual Disorders. The revised third edition (APA, 1987) eliminated the section on Psychosexual Disorders and reconceptualized GIDC as one of several disorders considered to have their origins in childhood or adolescence. Also included in this section were Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, and Functional Encopresis. More recent editions of the DSM (APA, 1994, 2000) consolidated all of the disorders having to do with sexuality and gender identity, regardless of the patient’s age, into one section. According to this conceptualization, any differences between GIDC and GID in Adolescence or Adulthood are due primarily to the patient’s age. In other words, GIDC is considered the earliest form of a disorder that may persist into adulthood. In addition, it is related to the other sexuality and gender identity disorders, which include Pedophilia and Female Orgasmic Disorder.
Deception and Adolescents
Published in Harold V. Hall, Joseph G. Poirier, Detecting Malingering and Deception, 2020
Harold V. Hall, Joseph G. Poirier
It is too simplistic to conceptualize the problem of juvenile sex offending in traditional clinical terms. Intervention from prevention through identification, assessment, treatment, and follow-up must incorporate an understanding of the cultural taboo that surrounds the problem of sexual offenses. The cultural taboo phenomenon affects every aspect of approaching the problem. Sometimes the impact is very subtle, sometimes the impact is very overt, but it is always pervasive. In terms of developing effective intervention plans, the investigation/evaluation process is critical. A major concern with juvenile sex offenders is the established chronicity of the pedophile sexual abuse cycle (Lane, 1991). If the juvenile sexual offender persists in denial and deception, then no intervention will be worthwhile, and there is a high probability of abuse occurring and reoccurring.
We are Not Adult Convicted Sex Offenders; We are Your Youth! the Call for Developmentally-Gender Sensitive Assessment of Youth Who are Sexually Abusive
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2023
Chaffin and Bonner’s (1998) seminal article, “Don’t shoot, we’re your children”: Have we gone too far in our response to adolescent sexual abusers and children with sexual behavior problems?” confronted “using treatment models and assumptions borrowed and adapted from programs for incarcerated adult pedophiles,” calling for abandoning “conventional wisdoms” that all youth “who have performed sexually inappropriate behaviors” need long-term, restrictive “sex offender-specific treatment” (p. 314). Eclipsing this call was publication of the Juvenile Sex Offender Assessment Protocol (J-SOAP; Prentky et al., 2000) and Estimate of Risk of Adolescent Sexual Offense Recidivism (ERASOR; Worling & Curwen, 2001), risk predictive tools for youth who are sexually abusive. Prentky and Righthand (J-SOAP) and Worling (ERASOR) initiated what has become a commonly followed practice still dominating the field today, that is, applying an adult-male centered convicted sex offender paradigm to assessing risk in youth, regardless of their age or judicial status (adjudicated or non-adjudicated). Essentially, this paradigm views all youth who engage in sexually abusive behavior as, “juveniles with sex offenses” (JSO’s) to be treated similarly to adults who sexually offend, a stance criticized by other researchers (Miner, 2019; Powers-Sawyer & Miner, 2009).
A Content Analysis of Posts to an Online Support Forum for “Girl Lovers”
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2022
Nicole Cantor, Ebru Yucel, Damon Mitchell, DJ Angelone
Some adults have romantic feelings for, and are sexually attracted to, children. Using contemporary nomenclature, pedophilia is defined as adults with recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with prepubescent children typically 13 years or younger (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition description of pedophilia is the acknowledgment that such an attraction may result in sexual behaviors toward children but that some who have such an attraction may not act on their urges. Research on forensic samples of those who have acted on their sexual attraction to children have uncovered several cognitive distortions that may underlie the perpetration of child sexual abuse (Marziano et al., 2006). The current study seeks to assess how individuals outside of clinical or incarcerated samples justify their sexual attraction to children. We are specifically interested in understanding the justifications of individuals using an online support forum for self-described “girl lovers” (individuals sexually attracted to pubescent and/or prepubescent girls).
Hiding under the Color of Authority: Eric Wess Uller and his Decades-Long Rampage of Child Sexual Abuse
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2022
Paul R. Abramson, Sienna Bland-Abramson
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders indicates that the base rate of pedophilia in the male population is somewhere between 3% and 5% (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). As a general rule, a very low prevalence of a disorder makes it extremely hard to detect it (Meehl & Rosen, 1955; Pinkerton & Abramson, 1992). The substantial efforts that pedophiles exert to obscure their diagnostic identification (Matthews et al., 2015) underscores the additional obstacles that the disorder presents to evade detection (Abramson & Pinkerton, 2000). Pedophiles, in fact, rarely admit their disorder, but instead put considerable effort into disguising their intentions, perhaps even more so when attempting to become affiliated with a YSO. Though many barriers are certainly in place to forestall pedophilic behavior, they are, regrettably, insufficient to regularly prohibit this crime. Acknowledging this fact, we believe, is the indispensable first rule for all policy recommendations for YSO’s.