Research

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

• Childhood Sexual Innocence: Is the cultural hypothesis of innate sexual "innocence" supported by the literature?
• Cognitive Ability: At what age do young people develop certain abilities, qualities, and is there a "peak"?

In Relation to the Child's Older Partner

• Abused-Abuser: Is the idea that "abused" children go on to perpetrate empirically sound?
• Immaturity: Are the adult partners retarded or lacking in intelligence?

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?