The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Pedophilia

Blanchard, Ray

doi:10.1007/s10508-009-9536-0

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“…For my purposes, the sexual attraction part of the definition is the key consideration in operationalizing pedophilia. There has been recent debate about the existence of hebephilia, a sexual age orientation for pubescent children, that is, children who are beginning to show signs of physical maturity such as breast budding in girls or changes in the scrotum and penis for boys (Blanchard, 2010;Franklin, 2009;Seto, 2010). There is no word coined yet for individuals who are attracted to both mature and immature persons.…”

Section: Stability Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Is Pedophilia a Sexual Orientation?

2012

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In this article, I address the question of whether pedophilia in men can be construed as a male sexual orientation, and the implications for thinking of it in this way for scientific research, clinical practice, and public policy. I begin by defining pedophilia and sexual orientation, and then compare pedophilia (as a potential sexual orientation with regard to age) to sexual orientations with regard to gender (heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality), on the bases of age of onset, correlations with sexual and romantic behavior, and stability over time. I conclude with comments about the potential social and legal implications of conceptualizing pedophilia as a type of sexual orientation in males.

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Section: Stability Over Timementioning

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Is Pedophilia a Sexual Orientation?

2012

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“…It needs to be taken into account that pedophilia fulfills characteristics of a disorder even without the existence of a threat of endangering others (real offenders vs. non-offenders). Comparing pedophilia to other paraphilias, the acting out of the preference can be seen as an idiosyncratic clinically relevant criterion (Blanchard 2010).…”

Section: Sexual Preference Disordermentioning

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Proactive Strategies to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and the Use of Child Abuse Images: Experiences from the German Dunkelfeld Project

Beier

2016

Women and Children as Victims and Offenders: Background, Prevention, Reintegration

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The contribution describes a German prevention approach which aims at improving proactive strategies to protect children from sexual exploitation by online offenses, such as the consumption or distribution of child abuse images (so-called "child pornography"), and hands-on contact child sexual abuse. Prevention strategies include research on individuals at risk to commit first or persistent sexual offenses against children, at the same time offering preventive assessment and treatment. As it is acknowledged that many offenders against children remain undetected by legal authorities in the "Dunkelfeld" (literally "dark field") and are therefore not included in any official statistics, this program focuses on those who admit a longstanding sexual interest in prepubescent and/or early pubescent children, so-called pedophiles and hebephiles, self-motivated by the distress experienced due to their sexual preference (cf. www.dont-offend.org). It will be shown that these groups are reachable (given that they can rely on anonymity and the professional pledge of confidentiality) in order to improve the prevention of child sexual exploitation, because sexually deviant interests have been identified as a major risk factor for first or persistent sexual offending against children. Therefore, public health services have a real chance of encouraging the concerned persons to seek professional help before any kind of sexual offense against children is committed.

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“…The Paraphilias Subworkgroup of the Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group for DSM-5 has proposed replacing the current diagnostic construct, Pedophilia, with Pedohebephilic Disorder, both to reflect the existence of pedohebephiles and hebephiles and also to bring the DSM into closer agreement with the ICD, which currently defines Paedophilia as ''A sexual preference for children, boys or girls or both, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age''(ICD-10 F65.4; emphasis added). My original report to the Paraphilias Subworkgroup suggesting the replacement of Pedophilia with Pedohebephilic Disorder was published as Blanchard (2010a). The rationales for all notable changes to the diagnostic criteria for all the paraphilias may be found on the DSM-5 Website maintained by the American Psychiatric Association, http://www.dsm5.org.…”

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The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Pedophilia

Cited by 104 publications

References 36 publications

Is Pedophilia a Sexual Orientation?

Is Pedophilia a Sexual Orientation?

Proactive Strategies to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and the Use of Child Abuse Images: Experiences from the German Dunkelfeld Project

Misdiagnoses of Pedohebephilia Using Victim Count: A Reply to Wollert and Cramer (2011)

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