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==In Relation to the Child== | ==In Relation to the Child== | ||
*[[Childhood Sexual Innocence]]: Is the cultural hypothesis of innate sexual "innocence" | *[[Prevalence of Harm and Negative Outcomes]]: How often do these factors occur in different age groups of "sexually abused" children? How often are they contradicted? | ||
*[[Childhood Sexual Innocence]]: Is the cultural hypothesis of innate sexual "innocence" s | |||
upported by the literature? | |||
*[[Cognitive Ability]]: At what age do young people develop certain abilities, qualities, and is there a "peak"? | *[[Cognitive Ability]]: At what age do young people develop certain abilities, qualities, and is there a "peak"? | ||
*[[Profiling the Child Victim]]: Do children who have been sexually involved express a typical set of symptoms? | *[[Profiling the Child Victim]]: Do children who have been sexually involved express a typical set of symptoms? | ||
Revision as of 20:08, 22 April 2008
These pages present a collection of scientific research and other demonstrative references on matters relevant to minor sexuality.
Key Social Concepts
- Secondary Harm: Does social interpretation of adult-minor sex create or compound the harm attributed to it?
- Sexual Repression: Can sexual neglect and desexualization cause harm?
- Family Environment: Do family factors associated with 'CSA' inflate the negative effects reported in most studies of it?
In Relation to the Child
- Prevalence of Harm and Negative Outcomes: How often do these factors occur in different age groups of "sexually abused" children? How often are they contradicted?
- Childhood Sexual Innocence: Is the cultural hypothesis of innate sexual "innocence" s
upported by the literature?
- Cognitive Ability: At what age do young people develop certain abilities, qualities, and is there a "peak"?
- Profiling the Child Victim: Do children who have been sexually involved express a typical set of symptoms?
- Body Count: What proportion of children have been "sexually abused"? How does this depend upon our definitions?
In Relation to the Child's Older Partner
- Recidivism: When compared to other criminal categories, how often do child sex offenders reoffend?
- Abused-Abuser: Is the idea that "abused" children go on to perpetrate empirically sound?
- Immaturity: Are the adult partners retarded or lacking in intelligence?
- Pedophiles in the Criminal Population: How often do child sex offenders have a pedophilic preference?
Anthropology and Zoology
- Intergenerational Sexual Behaviors in Animals: Does sex between juveniles and adults occur in other species?
- Intergenerational Relationships in History: Is adult-child sex culturally and historically ubiquitous?
- Nonwestern Intergenerational Relationships: How do nonrepressive tribal societies conceptualise their relationships?
In Relation to Minor-Attraction
- Cognitive Distortion: Is the evidence for a significant degree of distortion in the beliefs of pedophiles sound?
- Child Pornography: What is the nature of child pornography, and the effect of its use?
- Psychopathy and abnormal Psychology: Are the prevailing assertions about minor-attracted persons supported in the population?
- Prevalence: How common is pedophilia? How many pedophiles "act out"?