The study of Pedophilia. By Larissa Chase.
When most people think of pedophiles, they always seem to think of some dirty old man, sweating profusely infront of the computer, masturbating to child porn, or sitting in their cars, masturbating whilst children walked past too and from school.
This, is not the case, and in this article I'm writing you will learn the true meaning of pedophilia, pedophilies, infantophiles and much more.
Chapter One - What is a pedophile.
A pedophile is a human being who harbours sexual attraction and desires toward underage children. The age of consent is different for many countries and states, but it is usually 17-18. Anything under is referred to as 'jailbait' or 'minors' But the main thing in this document is that we are discussing CHILDREN, not teenagers, people who have sexual preferences, fantasies and desires for teenagers are called ephebophiles
A pedophile can be any gender, any age. So for those of you who are steryotyping the pedophiles, remember, girls can harbour such desires too.
A pedophile is coined so when each of the following things occur:
1 - Over a period of at least 6 months, reccurent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviours involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child, or children.
2 - The person has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.
3 - The person is at least 16 years old and at least 5 years older then the child or children.
Chapter Two - What is an infantophile.
An infantophile is a human who is sexually attracted to toddlers and very young children. The ages vary, but most infantophiles prefer, or desire 2-7. When the child reaches seven, it becomes pedophilia, because it is a prepubescent child.
Chapter Three - The causes.
There are no known causes for pedophiles and infantophiles, although there were several tests that suggest that child sexual abusers were indeed, abused as a child. This is known as the 'cycle of abuse' This test was proven inconclusive as they did not have enough statistics to prove this hypothesis.
Sometimes, people don't know the real reason why people ARE pedophiles is because they're not thinking outside the box. Some people just have involuntary sexual desire and fantasies about infants and children. Whether the person acts on them or not is different. I believe if you keep the fantasies to yourself, then you're okay. But if you involve pornographic material, or real life situations, then its not okay. Most people have sexual desires that they don't mention, and I think thats a good attitude to present. If you keep it locked up inside, then nobody will get hurt. On the other hand, bottling it up might prove to be the worst thing you could do, because the pedophile or infantophile might decide that enough is enough, that they can't take it anymore, and put their desires and fantasies into actions. That is NOT on. And I am talking about you Jaime.
Anyway, I digress.
Chapter Four - Treatments available.
Pedophilia and infantophila does not have a solid cure at this present time.
Various treatments exist however that are aimed at reducing or preventing pedophilic behaviour.
Treatment often requires the assistance with the local law enforcement [police officers] and health care professionals such as therapists and counsellours.
Cognitive behavioural treatments target attitudes, beliefs and behaviours that are believed to increase the likelihood of sexual offences against children and relapse prevention is the most common type of cognitive behavioural treatment. The techniques of relapse prevention is based on principles used for treating addictions. Which I have always said, pedophilia behaviour and desires/fantasies are like a drug, you can kick the addiction but god-damn is it going to take time and work. See, most pedophiles don't realize they have a problem before its too late, or fail to see why pedophilia, and infantophillia is wrong, because most often then not they live in their own worlds, where children rule and the pedophile is just the pitiful lackey.
Behavioural treatments target sexual arousal to children, using satisfaction and aversion techniques to supress sexual arousal to children and covert sensitization to increase sexual arousal to adults.
Medications are used to lower sex drive in pedophiles by interfering with the activity of testosterone.
Klaus M Beier of the institute of Sexology and Sexual medicine reported success in a preliminary study using role-play therapy and 'impulse curbing drugs' to help pedophiles avoid sexually assulting a child. According to researches, contact child offenders were better about to control their urges once they understood the prepubescent childs view.
Although these results are relevant to the prevention of reoffending in contact child sex offenders, there is no empirical suggestion that such therapy is a cure for pedophilia. Dr Fred Berlin believes that pedophilia could be successfully treated if the medical community would give it more attention.
Chapter Five - Inconclusive results as to how to determine whether a human is a pedophile or not.
There was a study previously, which failed to provide accurate results as to whether a person was a pedophile or not. During the early stage of the study, they would sit a pedophile in a room, and show the pedophile images of children, clothed, and sometimes naked. The scientists decided to pull out the naked images of the children because of the allegations they would surely recieve from showing pornographic images of children. And so they decided just to view clothed pictures. This study failed because they believed that the pedophile [if it was a male] could simply think of something entirely different, in which would be not arousing and so the pedophile would not have an erection, proving that the person is a pedophile and is sexually attracted to children, the other part that this study failed is that they did not count on many women pedophiles, and so the test would be inconclusive with females.
Chapter 6 - Exclusive and Non Exclusive Pedophiles.
There are two different types of pedophiles.
The non exclusive ones can and will be aroused by both adults and children.
Exclusive ones like and desire JUST children.
Chapter 7 - The conclusion.
I hope I was able to clear up some [probably not needed] information about pedophilia and infantophilia.
Some parts about the treatments I got from Wikipedia so props to them, the other parts I wrote from personal experience.
I hope you enjoyed my ramblings.
Goodnight
