Quotes on the occurence of paedophilia in CSOs
15 March 2007“. . . most data suggest that only a relatively small portion of the population of incarcerated sexual offenders against minors consists of persons for whom minors (particularly children) represent the exclusive or even primary object of sexual interest or source of arousal (Freund, Watson, & Dickey, 1991; Gebhard et al., 1965; Howells, 1981; Lang et al., 1988; Langevin, 1983; McCormack & Selvaggio, 1989; Marshall, Babaree, & Butt, 1988; Marshall & Eccles, 1991; Mohr et al., 1964; Quinsey, Chaplin, & Carrigan, 1979; Righton, 1981; Rowan, 1988; Schofield, 1965; Swanson, 1968).”
“In some studies, 30% of the offenders tested did not show sufficient arousal [to children] to derive a usable score (Barbaree, Seto, Serin, Amos, and Preston, 1994; Freund and Blanchard, 1989).”
~Wogan, Michael (2002). Measuring Sexual Preferences Using Eye Movement Data. (The portion of preferential offenders isn’t mentioned.)
“This exhaustive and authoritative work is based on a three-tiered typology of offen[ders] against children, [the first type being] the true pedophile [who] has a general interest in social contact with children, including a sexual dimension. […] In this book I am concerned exclusively with the first type, which constitutes approximately 5% of all pedosexually active men.”
~ Lautmann, Rüdiger (1994). “Attraction to Children.”
“In any case, as already mentioned, most sexual offenses against
children are committed not by pedophiles, but by non-pedophilic men.”
~ Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology, “Prohibited Sexual Behavior and Sexual Violence.”
“Of [extrafamilial child sex offenders from 1990 to 1995], only … 14.8% of the total … had been identified as paedophiles or suspected paedophiles.”
~ Joint submission from the Northern Territory Government and Police, 9 March 1995, p. 4. Cited by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority.
“Indeed, Howells (1981) maintains that “There is good reason to think that such persons [pedophiles] form a minority in the total population of people who become sexually involved with children” (p.76). Other researchers have come to a similar conclusion (Bromberg & Johnson, 2001; Mohr, Turner, & Jerry, 1964; Swanson, 1968).”
~ Wilson, Singer, & Dowd (2006). Handbook of Children, Culture, And Violence, p.68
“The proportions of men in each of the nine study groups—two groups of child pornography offenders, three groups of offenders against children, three groups of offenders against adults, and one group of general sexology patients [who had no history of charges for child pornography or sexual offenses] —who met a diagnostic criterion for pedophilia used at the Kurt Freund Laboratory (pedophilic index greater than .25; Blanchard et al., 2001) are shown in Figure 1. There was a significant difference between groups in the proportions who met this diagnostic criterion: 61% of child pornography offenders, 35% of offenders with child victims, 13% of offenders with adult victims, and 22% of general sexology patients.
~ Seto, M. C., Cantor, J. M., & Blanchard, R. (2006). “Child pornography offenses are a valid diagnostic indicator of pedophilia,” Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 610-615. According to the authors, the 35% figure may be inflated because study participants were referred due to clinical or legal concerns about their sexual interests or behavior, and the study included an inordinate number of people who had convictions for both child pornography and child molestation.
Some have a persistent sexual preference for children beginning in adolescence, while others have a preference for adults but act with children due to situational factors (e.g., marital problems, loss of wife, abuse of alcohol, or stress). Most theories focus on the former type since the latter type are really not pedophiles. However, most clinical and criminal studies find the latter type to be the majority of those who offend.
~ Howells, K. (1981). “Adult sexual interest in children: Considerations relevant to theories of aetiology,” in Cook, M. & Howells, K. (eds.), Adult sexual interest in children, London: Academic Press, pp. 55-94; as summarized on MHAMic
More important, sexual contact with a child does not a pedophile make. “The majority of reported acts of sexual abuse of children are not committed by pedophiles,” but by men in relationships with adult women and men, said John Money, of Johns Hopkins, a preeminent expert on sexual abnormalities.
~ Levine, J. (2002). Harmful to Minors, p.25-26
15 Responses to “Quotes on the occurence of paedophilia in CSOs”
March 15th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
I haven’t seen the Okami/Goldberg study before, however I’m familiar with the Northern Territory 1995 submission.
It will be interesting to see whether non-MAAs have any opinions about these facts.
March 17th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Measuring Sexual Preferences Using Eye Movement Data. A Proposal for Research. Michael Wogan, Ph.D., J.D. Rutgers University …
crab.rutgers.edu/~mwogan/eyemovement.htm
Link there for you.
WM
March 18th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Thanks for the link, WM. I’ve added it to Jillium’s post.
March 19th, 2007 at 6:06 am
Yep,
That was the research proposal.
I always like to give some credence to any claim.
WM
March 20th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Heh, motherfuckers?
I don’t think that any of us even find women attractive! :-p
March 20th, 2007 at 11:14 am
Speak for yerself
Mum no looker though
;)
WM
March 20th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
*Shuns WM* ;-p
I left a comment at your blog, btw, but I don’t think you noticed.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I added another.
June 16th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
A different work with the same quotation is online here: http://www.dianarussell.com/chapter.html
The sources cited by Wilson et al. are:
Howells (Eds.), Adult sexual interest in children (pp. 137–180). New York: Academic Press.
Bromberg, D. S., & Johnson, B. T. (2001, July). Sexual interest in children, child sexual abuse, and psychological sequaelae for children. Psychology in Schools 38(4), 343–355.
Mohr, J., Turner, R., & Jerry, M. (1964). Pedophilia and Exhibitionism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Swanson, D. (1968). Adult sexual abuse of children: The man and circumstances. Diseases of the Nervous System, 29, 677–683.
June 16th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Heh, you do a lot of reading
This is always a nice post to refer to in other articles, because it proves just how misguided peoples’ assumptions of the motivations for CSA are.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Updated
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
And a caveat to Seto et al.: “According to the authors, the 35% figure may be inflated because study participants were referred due to clinical or legal concerns about their sexual interests or behavior, and the study included an inordinate number of people who had convictions for both child pornography and child molestation.”
August 17th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
This was posted at BoyChat:
“Some sex offences against children are committed by pedophiles, that is, persons who are sexually attracted to children rather than adults. Most child molesters, however, are not particularly attracted to children, but merely seeking sexual stimulation through encounters with children to compensate for a preferred, but unobtainable or inadequate (sexual) relationship with adults. Pedophilia, i.e. the sexual attraction to children (which may or may not result in CSA), should therefore not be used synonymously with CSA”.
From “CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE (CSA) REPORT ON A CONSULTATION” - attended by WHO in Copenhagen, 11-12 December 1985 [http://danpedo.sexualpolitik.se/english/]
I’m not sure if I should add it to the post.
August 18th, 2008 at 2:53 am
It seems relevant.
August 18th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Use this as a blind reference:
http://www.unicri.it/wwk/documentation/lmsdb.php?id_=13667&vw_=f