Are Pedophiles Or People Who Suffer From Pedophilia?

Pedophiles: are those that develop a sexual interest over a long period of time. Commit their crimes for a variety of reasons and go on committing their crimes with little hopes of rehabilitation. The internet serves purpose to many pedophiles today, allowing them to commit a crime and computer crime.

Psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia have higher rates of mental illness and sexual offending, for example, incest offenders had a much higher rate of psychosis when compared to homicidal sex offenders (Galloway & Houston, 2008). Personality disorders and sex offenders were characterized by pervasive affective instability, poor impulse control, impairment of self-identity and a tendency towards engaging in unstable relationships associated with emotional crises underpinned by a fear of abandonment (Galloway & Houston, 2008). Comorbid conditions seen in those with a diagnosis of voyeuristic disorder or exhibitionistic disorder in addition to the sex offense include hypersexuality, ADHD, conduct disorder, higher rates of depression and substance use disorder (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). There are psychiatric comorbidity of pedophilic disorder they include substance use disorders, depression, bipolar, anxiety disorder, and

Pedophilia is a medical diagnosis, which is defined as a psychiatric disorder in adults or older adolescents, ranging from ages 16 and older. Pedophilia is characterized by a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent

Sexual abuse-  when an adult uses a child for sexual purposes or involves a child in sexual acts

Most people consider pedophiles to be anyone who has committed a sex offense against a child and that all pedophiles will commit this offense. In both cases that is, at best, a half truth. The DSM-5, which is a tool that outlines the diagnostic criteria for a given disorder, defines pedophilic disorder as, “a paraphilia involving intense and recurrent sexual urges towards and fantasies about prepubescent children that have either been acted upon or which cause the person with the attraction distress or interpersonal difficulty.” With the latter half of this definition, we begin to open up to the idea that there are those who have sexual interests in children who have had no form of inappropriate contact with a child, but rather just have their daily life affected by the feelings that they are having toward

Pedophilic Disorder is a category of Paraphilic Disorders. There are different categories of pedophiles. First, it is what type the pedophile is. There are two different types which are exclusive and nonexclusive. Exclusive means the pedophile is interested in just children while nonspecific means the pedophile is interested in anyone. Next, it is gender. Gender includes whatever the pedophile is interested in: males, females, or both. Lastly, is if the pedophile

     Harding wrote an article on pedophilia stating that pedophilia is a subcategory of a larger group of sexual disorders commonly classified as paraphilias. “These are defined as recurrent, intense, aphrodisiac fantasies, sexual urges,

Until lately, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has categorized pedophilia as a condition where the adult has an enduring sexual interest in children that is often exclusive. However, recent controversy over the definition of pedophilia has led to a reexamination of the word and a new definition has been formed. According to the DSM-V, the newest version of the DSM, pedophilia is a condition in which a person has recurrent, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children, generally age 13 years or younger, for a period of at least 6 months. The person has acted on these sexual urges, or the sexual urges or fantasies cause marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.

Pedophilic disorder is a type of paraphilia disorder, where an individual has sexual fantasies, urges and

Pedophilia is an ever growing problem in the United States, and is on an increase sense the new age of technology. Pedophilic disorder is diagnosed according to the DSM-5 as when an adult derives sexual gratification through contact with children or the want to have sexual conduct with a child which may cause that person severe distress. Criteria for this disorder is very specific to ages, it states that that person has to be at least 16 years old (not legal adult age) and must be at least five years older than the child. The criteria also states that for at least six months the person must have recurrent and intense sexual arousing and other things of that nature. The person has acted on his or her urges as well. A person who has

In 2002 the Catholic Church was rocked with scandalous reports of Priests sexually molesting young children and particularly boys. The scandal is the result of numerous investigations, allegations, arrests, trials, convictions and imprisonment of Catholic Priests. It became largely reported that once trusted and respected Catholic Priests were pedophiles. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) categorizes pedophilia as a mental disorder if the sexual fantasies or urges involve prepubescent children , if they last six months or longer, if the individual has acted on them, or if they cause marked distress” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000).

The American Psychiatric Association has declared that pedophilia is no longer thought of as a mental disorder. In early studies, (DSM-III-R), pedophilia was characterized as a disorder if "the person acted out on the urges, or was markedly distressed by them" (Medinger 2). Nowadays, the diagnostic description is that pedophilia is a disorder if the offender is mentally impaired, agitated, or experiencing guilt as a result of what he is doing. In other words, a pedophile can "play" all he wants until he becomes irrational about it. Outwardly, the pedophile may, in today's society, seem to be a perfectly normal human being. Pedophilia, like homosexuality and transvestitism, is just a sexual preference (APA).

Pedophilia is a psychosexual illness sexual that is involved with the thought or act of having sexual activities with children who usually have not yet reached puberty as an adult. Although pedophilia is a disgusting, sickening and absolutely unacceptable there are many common misconceptions that are attached to it. For example believe it or not, not all pedophiles are necessarily always child abuser. A pedophile can simply have feelings for children that they do not act on, while child molesters on the other hand have committed serious crimes by involving themselves with sexual activities with children. There is also the common misconception that all pedophiles are usually men. While this has some truth to it, society is less likely to rebuke

Specific Purpose: After my speech my audience will know what child molestation is, the road to recovery, and the obstacles along the way.

Pedophilia is psychological disorder characterised by intense sexual feelings of arousal and behaviour directed by adults towards prepubescent children. There has been numerous research done on the differences in brain function in pedophiles and non-pedophiles. Most of these research focuses predominantly focus on the male pedophiles. Alterations in brain function in deviant behaviours such as paedophilia are largely unknown, though neuronal mechanism underlying normal sexual motivation and function has been examined. Research has been conducted on healthy humans using FMRI and OET and remote sexual stimuli such as visual erotica. These researches have shown that in response to these stimuli there are neural activity