View source for Debate Guide: All child molesters are pedophiles

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:''This claim goes hand in hand with the [[Research: Prevalence#Non-offending MAPs|equally false]] charge that all pedophiles are molesters.''
[[File:Schmedding.png|thumb|Actual book cover recycling [[Child Sexual Abuse]] [[Often repeated themes in anti-pedophile literature|imagery against pedophiles]]]]
<blockquote><font color="green">'''''Sexual abusers target children who they are <u>hardwired</u> to prey upon.<br><hr>Child sex abuse and pedophilia are <u>partners in crime</u>. Leaving a trail of destruction in its wake, the abuse results from this maladaptive perversion, and creates [[Research: Offender characteristics#Abused-abuser relationship|future pedophiles out of the victims]].'''''</font></blockquote>

While estimates vary, research tends to suggest only '''10-20% of CSOs meet the regular criteria for pedophilia'''. [[Research: Pedophiles in the criminal population|Our research anthology on pedophiles in the criminal population]] gives an excellent summary of the findings. ''Many'' of these men, particularly among the higher estimates of 25-50% likely to be nonpreferentials, or misdiagnosed [[hebephilia|hebephiles]]. The vast majority of offenders are non-pedophiles who have been driven to offend by their personal situations. Such [[Wikipedia:Situational sexual behavior|"situational"]] offending is particularly common in crimes of incest involving younger children. Possible causes include general proximity or convenience, the removal/ageing/disablement of adult partners and general lack of confidence approaching socially appropriate adults.

==Statistical manipulation==

One could even argue child sex offending is lower among pedophiles by way of statistical manipulation:

*Project '''pedophilia in the general population at 10%''' from the 30% equal or greater arousal to prepubescent children in the [[Kent State Study]] and various others.
*Project '''pedophilia among child sex offenders at 5%''' from [[Rudiger Lautmann|Lautmann]]'s study in our [[Research: Pedophiles in the criminal population|reading list]].

Thus, one could argue that '''men in the general population have a 2x higher risk of offending against a child''', when compared to true pedophiles.

==It makes no statistical sense to target MAPs==

Of course, research would seem to indicate the real numbers are likely to be closer to 2-3% true pedophiles in the male general population and  10-20% pedophiles in the (predominantly male) child sex offender population. This would probably infer over 4x higher risk of offending among true pedophiles, although it should be cautioned this is from a very low baseline, and would confirm the existence of large numbers of non-offending pedophiles in the population. When we expand the definition to all pedo/[[Hebephilia|hebephilic]] [[Minor Attracted Person|MAPs]], we find the "risk" [[Media:Blackmales.png|only roughly doubles]], meaning that a preferential attraction to younger minors is a ''very weak'' predictor of criminal inclination. In many societies where black people are socially disadvantaged, their racial characteristics are a stronger predictor of offending, including a 4x greater risk of sexual assault among black males, when compared to white males.<ref>[https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/blacks-and-whites-victims-and-offenders-aggressive-crime-us-myths Blacks and Whites as Victims and Offenders in Aggressive Crime in the US: Myths and Realities (1999)]</ref>

==See also==

*[[Research: Offender characteristics|Research: Pedophiles in the criminal population]]
*[[Research: Prevalence#Non-offending MAPs|Research: How many pedophiles offend?]]

With respect to the abused-abuser relationship sometimes supported by individuals who use this argument:

*[[Research: Offender characteristics#Abused-abuser relationship|Abused-abuser relationship]]

==References==

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