“…Research suggests that males are markedly more inclined to endorse paraphilic interests compared with females (e.g., Dawson et al, 2016), but little to no research has examined the extent to which gender may moderate (i.e., statistically affect the magnitude or direction of) the relation between personality disorder features and paraphilic interests. The literature on gender differences in the expression of psychopathy has been decidedly mixed, with several intriguing findings that have yet to be independently replicated (Cale & Lilienfeld, 2002;Miller, Watts, & Jones, 2011; but see Schulz, Murphy, & Verona, 2016;Sellbom, Donnelly, Rock, Phillips, & Ben-Porath, 2016). In light of these inconsistent results, we tentatively anticipated that gender would not moderate the patterns of relations between psychopathy and paraphilic interests.…”