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	Non-criminal populations of pedophiles do not exhibit increased levels of psychopathy or other pathologies,<ref>[https://www.b4uact.org/know-the-facts/ B4U-ACT research summary]</ref> nor less typical psychological characteristics such as left-handedness or paraphilia. One study even found lower levels of psychopathology.		Non-criminal populations of pedophiles do not exhibit increased levels of psychopathy or other pathologies,<ref>[https://www.b4uact.org/know-the-facts/ B4U-ACT research summary]</ref> nor less typical psychological characteristics such as left-handedness or paraphilia. One study even found lower levels of psychopathology.

	Regarding MAPs, we are at a stage similar to homosexuality in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and for similar reasons.<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-mental-science/article/abs/psychometric-aspects-of-homosexuality/C7FC17220BD07E5F87EC545F600BA58C Grygier, T. (1957). Psychometric Aspects of Homosexuality. Journal of Mental Science, 103(432), 514-526.]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b AHRENFELDT RH. Homosexuality and sexual trauma. British Medical Journal. 1947 Nov;2(4532):795. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1176/ajp.112.8.584 GLUECK, B. C. (1956). PSYCHODYNAMIC PATTERNS IN THE HOMOSEXUAL SEX OFFENDER. American Journal of Psychiatry, 112(8), 584–590.]</ref><ref>STAFFORD-CLARK D. The medico-legal problem of homosexuality. The Medical Press. 1947 Sep;218(10):220-222. PMID: 20257970.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/male-homosexual/z4njgwx Male Homosexual: Archive from the BBC in which homosexuals speak candidly of their "condition" in 1965]</ref> As the APA now admit:		Regarding MAPs, we are at a stage similar to homosexuality in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and for similar reasons.<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-mental-science/article/abs/psychometric-aspects-of-homosexuality/C7FC17220BD07E5F87EC545F600BA58C Grygier, T. (1957). Psychometric Aspects of Homosexuality. Journal of Mental Science, 103(432), 514-526.]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b AHRENFELDT RH. Homosexuality and sexual trauma. British Medical Journal. 1947 Nov;2(4532):795. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1176/ajp.112.8.584 GLUECK, B. C. (1956). PSYCHODYNAMIC PATTERNS IN THE HOMOSEXUAL SEX OFFENDER. American Journal of Psychiatry, 112(8), 584–590.]</ref><ref>STAFFORD-CLARK D. The medico-legal problem of homosexuality. The Medical Press. 1947 Sep;218(10):220-222. PMID: 20257970.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/male-homosexual/z4njgwx Male Homosexual: Archive from the BBC in which homosexuals speak candidly of their "condition" in 1965]</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/24/archives/what-we-dont-know-about-homosexuality-if-it-isnt-an-illness-what-is.html If it isn't an illness, what is it?]</ref> As the APA now admit:

	:''"until the 1950's, most homosexual persons studied by psychologists and others were prisoners or mental patients, so it was easy to conclude that these were linked. Evelyn Hooker, a brave psychologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), began undoing this belief in the early 1950s. A gay former student told her, "Evelyn, it is your scientific duty to study men like me." Hooker agreed, "He's right — we know nothing about them." (cited in Burr, 1993). When she told the psychiatry department chair she wanted to study normal homosexuals, he replied, "There is no such person!" (Hooker, 1993, p. 450)."''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191215112657/https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2018/05/society-accept-homosexuality APA - How psychology has helped society accept homosexuality] See also [https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/mental-health APA - Being Gay Is Just as Healthy as Being Straight] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200807004237/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evelyn_Hooker mention of Hooker's study] on williamapercy.com)</ref>		:''"until the 1950's, most homosexual persons studied by psychologists and others were prisoners or mental patients, so it was easy to conclude that these were linked. Evelyn Hooker, a brave psychologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), began undoing this belief in the early 1950s. A gay former student told her, "Evelyn, it is your scientific duty to study men like me." Hooker agreed, "He's right — we know nothing about them." (cited in Burr, 1993). When she told the psychiatry department chair she wanted to study normal homosexuals, he replied, "There is no such person!" (Hooker, 1993, p. 450)."''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191215112657/https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2018/05/society-accept-homosexuality APA - How psychology has helped society accept homosexuality] See also [https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/mental-health APA - Being Gay Is Just as Healthy as Being Straight] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200807004237/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evelyn_Hooker mention of Hooker's study] on williamapercy.com)</ref>

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	However other paraphilias may tend to occur together more consistently.		However other paraphilias may tend to occur together more consistently.
	*'''Fedora O., Reddon J. R., Morrison J. W., Fedora S. K., Pascoe, H., & Yeudall, L. T. (1992). "Sadism and other paraphilias in normal controls and sex offenders," ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 21(1), 1-15.'''		*'''Fedora O., Reddon J. R., Morrison J. W., Fedora S. K., Pascoe, H., & Yeudall, L. T. (1992). "Sadism and other paraphilias in normal controls and aggressive and nonaggressive sex offenders," ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 21(1), 1-15.'''
	*:"Pedophilia had a low incidence of co-occurrence with other paraphilias whereas sadism, transvestism, fetishism, and the courtship disorder paraphilias had a high incidence of co-occurrence. [...] These results suggest that pedophilia occurred alone much more frequently than did the other paraphilias." [Of subjects who responded most to children, 90.9% of non-offenders, 84.7% of sexually non-aggressive offenders, and 50% of sexually aggressive offenders showed no other paraphilia.]		*:"Pedophilia had a low incidence of co-occurrence with other paraphilias whereas sadism, transvestism, fetishism, and the courtship disorder paraphilias had a high incidence of co-occurrence. [...] These results suggest that pedophilia occurred alone much more frequently than did the other paraphilias." [Of subjects who responded most to children, 90.9% of non-offenders, 84.7% of sexually non-aggressive offenders, and 50% of sexually aggressive offenders showed no other paraphilia.]

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	Regarding MAPs, we are at a stage similar to homosexuality in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and for similar reasons.<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-mental-science/article/abs/psychometric-aspects-of-homosexuality/C7FC17220BD07E5F87EC545F600BA58C Grygier, T. (1957). Psychometric Aspects of Homosexuality. Journal of Mental Science, 103(432), 514-526.]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b AHRENFELDT RH. Homosexuality and sexual trauma. British Medical Journal. 1947 Nov;2(4532):795. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1176/ajp.112.8.584 GLUECK, B. C. (1956). PSYCHODYNAMIC PATTERNS IN THE HOMOSEXUAL SEX OFFENDER. American Journal of Psychiatry, 112(8), 584–590.]</ref><ref>STAFFORD-CLARK D. The medico-legal problem of homosexuality. The Medical Press. 1947 Sep;218(10):220-222. PMID: 20257970.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/male-homosexual/z4njgwx Male Homosexual: Archive from the BBC in which homosexuals speak candidly of their "condition" in 1965]</ref> As the APA now admit:		Regarding MAPs, we are at a stage similar to homosexuality in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and for similar reasons.<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-mental-science/article/abs/psychometric-aspects-of-homosexuality/C7FC17220BD07E5F87EC545F600BA58C Grygier, T. (1957). Psychometric Aspects of Homosexuality. Journal of Mental Science, 103(432), 514-526.]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b AHRENFELDT RH. Homosexuality and sexual trauma. British Medical Journal. 1947 Nov;2(4532):795. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1176/ajp.112.8.584 GLUECK, B. C. (1956). PSYCHODYNAMIC PATTERNS IN THE HOMOSEXUAL SEX OFFENDER. American Journal of Psychiatry, 112(8), 584–590.]</ref><ref>STAFFORD-CLARK D. The medico-legal problem of homosexuality. The Medical Press. 1947 Sep;218(10):220-222. PMID: 20257970.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/male-homosexual/z4njgwx Male Homosexual: Archive from the BBC in which homosexuals speak candidly of their "condition" in 1965]</ref> As the APA now admit:

	:''"until the 1950's, most homosexual persons studied by psychologists and others were prisoners or mental patients, so it was easy to conclude that these were linked. Evelyn Hooker, a brave psychologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), began undoing this belief in the early 1950s. A gay former student told her, "Evelyn, it is your scientific duty to study men like me." Hooker agreed, "He's right — we know nothing about them." (cited in Burr, 1993). When she told the psychiatry department chair she wanted to study normal homosexuals, he replied, "There is no such person!" (Hooker, 1993, p. 450)."''<ref>[https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2018/05/society-accept-homosexuality APA - How psychology has helped society accept homosexuality] ~~(the page is unavailable now.~~ See ~~instead~~ [https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/mental-health APA - Being Gay Is Just as Healthy as Being Straight] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200807004237/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evelyn_Hooker mention of Hooker's study] on williamapercy.com)</ref>		:''"until the 1950's, most homosexual persons studied by psychologists and others were prisoners or mental patients, so it was easy to conclude that these were linked. Evelyn Hooker, a brave psychologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), began undoing this belief in the early 1950s. A gay former student told her, "Evelyn, it is your scientific duty to study men like me." Hooker agreed, "He's right — we know nothing about them." (cited in Burr, 1993). When she told the psychiatry department chair she wanted to study normal homosexuals, he replied, "There is no such person!" (Hooker, 1993, p. 450)."''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191215112657/https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2018/05/society-accept-homosexuality APA - How psychology has helped society accept homosexuality] See also [https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/mental-health APA - Being Gay Is Just as Healthy as Being Straight] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200807004237/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evelyn_Hooker mention of Hooker's study] on williamapercy.com)</ref>

	==Associated characteristics==		==Associated characteristics==

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	Regarding MAPs, we are at a stage similar to homosexuality in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and for similar reasons.<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-mental-science/article/abs/psychometric-aspects-of-homosexuality/C7FC17220BD07E5F87EC545F600BA58C Grygier, T. (1957). Psychometric Aspects of Homosexuality. Journal of Mental Science, 103(432), 514-526.]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b AHRENFELDT RH. Homosexuality and sexual trauma. British Medical Journal. 1947 Nov;2(4532):795. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1176/ajp.112.8.584 GLUECK, B. C. (1956). PSYCHODYNAMIC PATTERNS IN THE HOMOSEXUAL SEX OFFENDER. American Journal of Psychiatry, 112(8), 584–590.]</ref><ref>STAFFORD-CLARK D. The medico-legal problem of homosexuality. The Medical Press. 1947 Sep;218(10):220-222. PMID: 20257970.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/male-homosexual/z4njgwx Male Homosexual: Archive from the BBC in which homosexuals speak candidly of their "condition" in 1965]</ref> As the APA now admit:		Regarding MAPs, we are at a stage similar to homosexuality in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and for similar reasons.<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-mental-science/article/abs/psychometric-aspects-of-homosexuality/C7FC17220BD07E5F87EC545F600BA58C Grygier, T. (1957). Psychometric Aspects of Homosexuality. Journal of Mental Science, 103(432), 514-526.]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b AHRENFELDT RH. Homosexuality and sexual trauma. British Medical Journal. 1947 Nov;2(4532):795. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4532.795-b]</ref><ref>[https://sci-hub.se/10.1176/ajp.112.8.584 GLUECK, B. C. (1956). PSYCHODYNAMIC PATTERNS IN THE HOMOSEXUAL SEX OFFENDER. American Journal of Psychiatry, 112(8), 584–590.]</ref><ref>STAFFORD-CLARK D. The medico-legal problem of homosexuality. The Medical Press. 1947 Sep;218(10):220-222. PMID: 20257970.</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/male-homosexual/z4njgwx Male Homosexual: Archive from the BBC in which homosexuals speak candidly of their "condition" in 1965]</ref> As the APA now admit:

	:''"until the 1950's, most homosexual persons studied by psychologists and others were prisoners or mental patients, so it was easy to conclude that these were linked. Evelyn Hooker, a brave psychologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), began undoing this belief in the early 1950s. A gay former student told her, "Evelyn, it is your scientific duty to study men like me." Hooker agreed, "He's right — we know nothing about them." (cited in Burr, 1993). When she told the psychiatry department chair she wanted to study normal homosexuals, he replied, "There is no such person!" (Hooker, 1993, p. 450)."''<ref>[https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2018/05/society-accept-homosexuality APA - How psychology has helped society accept homosexuality]</ref>		:''"until the 1950's, most homosexual persons studied by psychologists and others were prisoners or mental patients, so it was easy to conclude that these were linked. Evelyn Hooker, a brave psychologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), began undoing this belief in the early 1950s. A gay former student told her, "Evelyn, it is your scientific duty to study men like me." Hooker agreed, "He's right — we know nothing about them." (cited in Burr, 1993). When she told the psychiatry department chair she wanted to study normal homosexuals, he replied, "There is no such person!" (Hooker, 1993, p. 450)."''<ref>[https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/ptn/2018/05/society-accept-homosexuality APA - How psychology has helped society accept homosexuality] (the page is unavailable now. See instead [https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/mental-health APA - Being Gay Is Just as Healthy as Being Straight] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200807004237/http://williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Evelyn_Hooker mention of Hooker's study] on williamapercy.com)</ref>

	==Associated characteristics==		==Associated characteristics==

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	*:"Here, we provide robust meta-analytic evidence that brain activity is not generally altered in pedophilia but deviates specifically in response to sexual stimuli."		*:"Here, we provide robust meta-analytic evidence that brain activity is not generally altered in pedophilia but deviates specifically in response to sexual stimuli."

			*'''Mundy, C. L. (2020). [https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0394716 Shifting the focus : a multimethod exploration of resiliency among child-attracted persons] (T). ''University of British Columbia''.'''
			::"[C]hild-attracted persons in my sample [n=116] exhibited higher levels of honesty-humility, agreeableness, and altruism than the university students. Conceptually, this makes sense, as child-attracted persons who exhibit pro-social personality characteristics, such as honesty-humility, are likely more resilient to engaging in sexual offending behaviours due to a higher level of morality."

	===So-called "perturbation" theory===		===So-called "perturbation" theory===

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	===Multiple paraphilias?===		===Multiple paraphilias?===
			Some studies found correlations between minor attraction and other "paraphilias".
			*'''McPhail, I.V. (2024) “[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00381-y The Subjective Experience of Individuals with Pedohebephilic Interest]”, ''Current Sexual Health Reports'' 16, DOI: 10.1007/s11930-023-00381-y'''
			*:"Individuals who report pedohebephilic interests are also more likely to report other paraphilias, such as scatologia, zoophilia, sadism, urophilia, frotteurism, exhibitionism, and voyeurism [46, 89, 90]."

			However other paraphilias may tend to occur together more consistently.
	*'''Fedora O., Reddon J. R., Morrison J. W., Fedora S. K., Pascoe, H., & Yeudall, L. T. (1992). "Sadism and other paraphilias in normal controls and sex offenders," ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 21(1), 1-15.'''		*'''Fedora O., Reddon J. R., Morrison J. W., Fedora S. K., Pascoe, H., & Yeudall, L. T. (1992). "Sadism and other paraphilias in normal controls and sex offenders," ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 21(1), 1-15.'''
	*:"Pedophilia had a low incidence of co-occurrence with other paraphilias whereas sadism, transvestism, fetishism, and the courtship disorder paraphilias had a high incidence of co-occurrence. [...] These results suggest that pedophilia occurred alone much more frequently than did the other paraphilias." [Of subjects who responded most to children, 90.9% of non-offenders, 84.7% of sexually non-aggressive offenders, and 50% of sexually aggressive offenders showed no other paraphilia.]		*:"Pedophilia had a low incidence of co-occurrence with other paraphilias whereas sadism, transvestism, fetishism, and the courtship disorder paraphilias had a high incidence of co-occurrence. [...] These results suggest that pedophilia occurred alone much more frequently than did the other paraphilias." [Of subjects who responded most to children, 90.9% of non-offenders, 84.7% of sexually non-aggressive offenders, and 50% of sexually aggressive offenders showed no other paraphilia.]

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	*'''McPhail, I.V. (2024) “[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00381-y The Subjective Experience of Individuals with Pedohebephilic Interest]”, ''Current Sexual Health Reports'' 16, DOI: 10.1007/s11930-023-00381-y'''		*'''McPhail, I.V. (2024) “[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00381-y The Subjective Experience of Individuals with Pedohebephilic Interest]”, ''Current Sexual Health Reports'' 16, DOI: 10.1007/s11930-023-00381-y'''
	*:from the [https://www.b4uact.org/b4qr/vol4/spring2024/ B4QR] description of the article ~~(as the original is not accessible)~~:		*:from the [https://www.b4uact.org/b4qr/vol4/spring2024/ B4QR] description of the article:
	*:"Notably, studies have found higher rates of childhood adversities, including sexual abuse, among MAPs compared to the general population. [...] The biogenic pathway suggests early markers of developmental issues, such as young parental age at birth, lower parental education, parental criminality, and substance use, predict attraction to minors in adulthood. Some studies associate physical markers, including higher rates of congenital malformations, low Apgar scores, low birth weight, and being small for gestational age, with behavioral proxies for attraction to minors. However, McPhail notes that other studies have not found such correlations."		*:"Notably, studies have found higher rates of childhood adversities, including sexual abuse, among MAPs compared to the general population. [...] The biogenic pathway suggests early markers of developmental issues, such as young parental age at birth, lower parental education, parental criminality, and substance use, predict attraction to minors in adulthood. Some studies associate physical markers, including higher rates of congenital malformations, low Apgar scores, low birth weight, and being small for gestational age, with behavioral proxies for attraction to minors. However, McPhail notes that other studies have not found such correlations."

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	*:"[C]onviction status for sexual offenses among pedohebephilic men was linked to higher rates of [sexual experiences], physical neglect, and physical abuse."		*:"[C]onviction status for sexual offenses among pedohebephilic men was linked to higher rates of [sexual experiences], physical neglect, and physical abuse."
	*: “While Study 1 and 2 found differences between teleiophilic and pedohebephilic men regarding instances of different types of sexual and nonsexual maltreatment, these were usually small or, as in the case of physical neglect or abuse in Study 2, even in the opposite direction from what was expected (and again small). Hence, in the present studies, pedohebephilic men’s early adverse family experiences did not differ markedly from those of teleiophilic men”		*: “While Study 1 and 2 found differences between teleiophilic and pedohebephilic men regarding instances of different types of sexual and nonsexual maltreatment, these were usually small or, as in the case of physical neglect or abuse in Study 2, even in the opposite direction from what was expected (and again small). Hence, in the present studies, pedohebephilic men’s early adverse family experiences did not differ markedly from those of teleiophilic men”

			*'''McPhail, I.V. (2024) “[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00381-y The Subjective Experience of Individuals with Pedohebephilic Interest]”, ''Current Sexual Health Reports'' 16, DOI: 10.1007/s11930-023-00381-y'''
			*:from the [https://www.b4uact.org/b4qr/vol4/spring2024/ B4QR] description of the article (as the original is not accessible):
			*:"Notably, studies have found higher rates of childhood adversities, including sexual abuse, among MAPs compared to the general population. [...] The biogenic pathway suggests early markers of developmental issues, such as young parental age at birth, lower parental education, parental criminality, and substance use, predict attraction to minors in adulthood. Some studies associate physical markers, including higher rates of congenital malformations, low Apgar scores, low birth weight, and being small for gestational age, with behavioral proxies for attraction to minors. However, McPhail notes that other studies have not found such correlations."

	===Adult-Adult relationships of MAPs===		===Adult-Adult relationships of MAPs===

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	=== Adverse childhood ===		=== Adverse childhood ===
	Some studies ~~show~~ a link ~~with~~ adverse childhood (nonsexual) experiences. ~~Although~~ it should be ~~kept in mind~~ that what happens as a result of adverse events may not be a malfunction, but an [[Research:_Evolutionary_Perspectives_on_Intergenerational_Sexuality#Other_relevant_information\|evolutionarily conditioned adaptation]].
	To see in detail how childhood '''sexual''' experience ~~affects~~ later attraction see the section [[Research:_Offender_characteristics#Abused-abuser_relationship\|~~Abused~~-abuser relationship]]		Some studies indicate a link between adverse childhood (''nonsexual'') experiences and attraction to minors, although cause and effect has not been established by these correlational studies. Assuming there is causality, it should be noted that what happens as a result of adverse events may not be a malfunction, but an [[Research:_Evolutionary_Perspectives_on_Intergenerational_Sexuality#Other_relevant_information\|evolutionarily conditioned adaptation]].
			To see in detail how childhood ''sexual'' experience relates to later attraction, see the section [[Research:_Offender_characteristics#Abused-abuser_relationship\|abused-abuser relationship]]

	*'''Marx CM, Tibubos AN, Brähler E, Beutel ME. Experienced childhood maltreatment in a sample of pedophiles: comparisons with patients of a psychosomatic outpatient clinic and the general population. J Sex Med. 2020;17:985–93. doi:10. 1016/j.jsxm.2020.01.019.'''		*'''Marx CM, Tibubos AN, Brähler E, Beutel ME. Experienced childhood maltreatment in a sample of pedophiles: comparisons with patients of a psychosomatic outpatient clinic and the general population. J Sex Med. 2020;17:985–93. doi:10. 1016/j.jsxm.2020.01.019.'''

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	=== Adverse childhood ===		=== Adverse childhood ===
	Some studies show a link with adverse childhood (nonsexual) experiences. Although it should be kept in mind that what happens as a result of adverse events may not be a malfunction, but an evolutionarily conditioned adaptation.		Some studies show a link with adverse childhood (nonsexual) experiences. Although it should be kept in mind that what happens as a result of adverse events may not be a malfunction, but an [[Research:_Evolutionary_Perspectives_on_Intergenerational_Sexuality#Other_relevant_information\|evolutionarily conditioned adaptation]].
	To see in detail how childhood '''sexual''' experience affects later attraction see the section [[Research:_Offender_characteristics#Abused-abuser_relationship\|Abused-abuser relationship]]		To see in detail how childhood '''sexual''' experience affects later attraction see the section [[Research:_Offender_characteristics#Abused-abuser_relationship\|Abused-abuser relationship]]