Research: A "cure" for pedophilia?
Like other sexual orientations, pedophilia can not be "cured." Attempts to treat it are in many cases harmful.
- Berlin, Fred S. (2000). "Treatments to Change Sexual Orientation," American Journal of Psychiatry, 157, p. 838.
- "It may be no easier for a person with pedophilia to change his or her sexual orientation than it is for a homosexual or heterosexual individual to do so."