Many people believe pedophiles to be scary old men lurking behind bushes but that's not always the case. Most of the time those who offend, offend family members. DSM-IV define
Pedophilia as recurrent sexually arousing fantasies, impulsive desires, or behaviors involving sexual acts with a child and that occur over a period of at least six months. (Neuroanthropology,
Cole and Cochran 2010) In most cases the pedo is at least 16 years old and 5 years older than their victim. Those labeled as such desire to abuse children. Many people do not understand the likes of pedophiles and I am here to educate. There are several ways to categorize pedophiles and the most common is exclusive and non-exclusive. Exclusive pedophiles are only interest in
children …show more content…
Statistics state that a higher percentage of male pedophiles are homosexual or bisexual, attraction to both sexes. Also, a common misjudgment of pedophiles; they are all male. Although rare it is to have cases of female pedophilia, it is in fact possible. Females who exhibit pedophilia are most common like to have problems with psychiatric disorders or substance abuse problems. Although they may have the same.DSM-IV branstetter3 criteria of male pedophiles male offenders do not normally express these sort of disorders. There is also a higher percentage of female child abusers compared to male pedophiles.
A controversial topic, many psychologists and psychiatrists have studied pedophiles and what came to light is this; many pedophiles have comorbidities, which is basically that they have been diagnosed with more than one disease or condition. Most male pedophiles have pre-existing psychiatric disorders. In some cases the disorder can be so extreme it overshadows the causation for these disorders. The thinking behind these researchers upon this discovery is “do we continue to classify pedophilia as a separate disorder?” or “do we label it is a sexual orientation?”. …show more content…
In my opinion it could be labeled as either a disorder or sexual orientation. However, disorder has a negative connotation and depending on your mind set so does sexual orientation. Sexual orientation if we go by google definition, is considered what gender you prefer, not age. If we go by the definition of some one in today’s society- “sexual orientation is the way that someone feels inside about their connection about other people, it’s a personal feeling that they are not obligated to share with anybody” (michaela reason). Although michaela feels it is immoral to be a pedophile, that it is unfair to label pedophilia as sexual orientation because she feels it is not the same.
“it’s is bullshit to say that someone like me who feels attracted to a consenting female can be put on the same level as a 40 year old man who wants to say that it is ok for him to touch kids becase thats his sexual orientation”. In her first quote it sounds like she would be leaning more toward labeling it as sexual orientation by saying that sexual orientation is based on feelings and branstetter4 connection towards a person without feeling obligated to share these feelings with anyone
Pedophilia as recurrent sexually arousing fantasies, impulsive desires, or behaviors involving sexual acts with a child and that occur over a period of at least six months. (Neuroanthropology,
Cole and Cochran 2010) In most cases the pedo is at least 16 years old and 5 years older than their victim. Those labeled as such desire to abuse children. Many people do not understand the likes of pedophiles and I am here to educate. There are several ways to categorize pedophiles and the most common is exclusive and non-exclusive. Exclusive pedophiles are only interest in
children …show more content…
Statistics state that a higher percentage of male pedophiles are homosexual or bisexual, attraction to both sexes. Also, a common misjudgment of pedophiles; they are all male. Although rare it is to have cases of female pedophilia, it is in fact possible. Females who exhibit pedophilia are most common like to have problems with psychiatric disorders or substance abuse problems. Although they may have the same.DSM-IV branstetter3 criteria of male pedophiles male offenders do not normally express these sort of disorders. There is also a higher percentage of female child abusers compared to male pedophiles.
A controversial topic, many psychologists and psychiatrists have studied pedophiles and what came to light is this; many pedophiles have comorbidities, which is basically that they have been diagnosed with more than one disease or condition. Most male pedophiles have pre-existing psychiatric disorders. In some cases the disorder can be so extreme it overshadows the causation for these disorders. The thinking behind these researchers upon this discovery is “do we continue to classify pedophilia as a separate disorder?” or “do we label it is a sexual orientation?”. …show more content…
In my opinion it could be labeled as either a disorder or sexual orientation. However, disorder has a negative connotation and depending on your mind set so does sexual orientation. Sexual orientation if we go by google definition, is considered what gender you prefer, not age. If we go by the definition of some one in today’s society- “sexual orientation is the way that someone feels inside about their connection about other people, it’s a personal feeling that they are not obligated to share with anybody” (michaela reason). Although michaela feels it is immoral to be a pedophile, that it is unfair to label pedophilia as sexual orientation because she feels it is not the same.
“it’s is bullshit to say that someone like me who feels attracted to a consenting female can be put on the same level as a 40 year old man who wants to say that it is ok for him to touch kids becase thats his sexual orientation”. In her first quote it sounds like she would be leaning more toward labeling it as sexual orientation by saying that sexual orientation is based on feelings and branstetter4 connection towards a person without feeling obligated to share these feelings with anyone