Although this is very much what the media, television shows and movies portray pedophiles to be, pedophiles are local neighbours, family friends, trusted babysitters, teachers and may even be living in your household. In order to understand what makes someone a pedophile, it is needed to understand what exactly the term pedophile entails. First off, paraphilia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), is a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires in which must feel distress about their interest. Typically these desires involve another persons psychological distress, injury or death or a desire to act upon such sexual behaviours involving persons in which are unwilling or unable to give consent(DSM-5). In which case an individual is too young to provide consent, it is considered pedophilia. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) defines it as a sexual preference for children of prepubertal or early pubertal
Although this is very much what the media, television shows and movies portray pedophiles to be, pedophiles are local neighbours, family friends, trusted babysitters, teachers and may even be living in your household. In order to understand what makes someone a pedophile, it is needed to understand what exactly the term pedophile entails. First off, paraphilia according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), is a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires in which must feel distress about their interest. Typically these desires involve another persons psychological distress, injury or death or a desire to act upon such sexual behaviours involving persons in which are unwilling or unable to give consent(DSM-5). In which case an individual is too young to provide consent, it is considered pedophilia. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) defines it as a sexual preference for children of prepubertal or early pubertal