What Is Pedophilia?

There are many people who know of someone who has been the victim of sexual assault. Likewise, millions of people are sexual assault victims themselves. With there being so many cases of assault, the criminal justice system is faced with the hard task of deciding on the correct punishment for the convicted offenders. One option of punishment for a male child molester is to have them physically castrated. Convicted male child molesters should most certainly receive strong punishment, but physical castration should be reserved for the worst cases of sexual abuse.

Monitored chemical castration should be the only alternative to full sentence prison time for repeat sex offenders, and child molesters, unless he voluntarily requests surgical castration. “Sometimes the gangrenous toe has to be sacrificed for the well being of the rest of the body” UNKOWN.

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Because reduction of the likelihood of offender recidivism in the future is clearly a priority, the criminal justice system has begun to look into the effectiveness of treatment programs. The following body of research further discusses the purpose and effectiveness of different treatment methods that can be employed by psychologists with the intention of rehabilitating sex offenders.

The issue of whether sex offenders should be chemically or physically castrated has been one that has sparked much debate over the years. There are many people who believe, apart from murder or treason, that sexual abuse is one of the worst crimes that a person can commit against another. In these circumstances, many have voiced the proposition that such an offender, especially when they are repeat offenders, be punished in the harshest way allowed. Apart from the obvious jail term, the extra punishment would be either surgical or chemical castration (Beech & Grubin, 2010). Castration has two ways that it can be done: surgical and chemical. Surgical castration involves the removal of the testes and chemical castration uses hormones to drastically reduce the testosterone levels in

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

     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,

Everyone have something that turns them on or sexual desires they will like to be filled. However, when does it becomes abnormal behavior or illegal? Do some people go too far with trying to become sexual satisfied? I learned that paraphilia are atypical and there are several different types. Paraphilia are behaviors such as; flashers or fetishes. They gain sexual gratification form a non-human objects or body parts. For example, flashers often masturbates to the idea of flashing a person or while flashing a person. In addition, a person with a fetish seek arousal though the smell of a person clothes, underwear, or feet. The fetish turns them on to their partners or a mate they are seeking. I met a guy who had a feet fetish at a local

Paraphilia is known as a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities. Brannon defines Paraphilic Disorder as any intense and persistent sexual interest other than sexual interest in genital stimulation or preparatory fondling with phenotypically normal, physically mature, consenting human partners. (2013) Although many types of Paraphilias have been identified, DSM-5 has categorized the disorder into eight specific types: Voyeuristic disorder, Exhibitionistic disorder, Frotteuristic disorder, Sexual masochism disorder, Sexual sadism disorder, Pedophilic disorder, Fetishistic disorder, Transvestic disorder. (2013)

A paraphilia is known as a medical category which medical doctors created in the 1920s to describe abnormal sexual arousal to individuals, objects, or situations that are not considered normal or typical behavior in a community and causes personal distress or serious problems. Quinsey (2011) noted that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders includes paraphilias as mental disorders. He stated that this is because they are known to include a behavioral or psychological dysfunction which can create significant distress or disability. He explains a primary feature in most paraphilias is that the sexual behaviors most often involve a person who did not consent to the specific behavior. This is especially true in exhibitionism, frotteurism, and voyeurism. According to Kafka and Hennen (2002), The most common types of paraphilias are exhibitionism (exposing ones genitals to an unexpected person or performing sexual acts that can be watched by others) voyeurism (urges to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing, or engaging in sexual activates, or in activates usually considered to be a private nature), pedophilia (sexual preference for prepubescent children or engaging in child sexual abuse), sexual masochism (wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer for sexual pleasure) sadism (in which the pain or humiliation of a person is sexually exciting), fetishism (use of inanimate objects to gain sexual excitement), transvestic

In the United States, required surgical or chemical castration is something that is not really considered as a form of punishment or a method of rehabilitation for sexual offenders. The reason for this

There are many different types of paraphilias, including pedophilia and necrophilia. Pedophilia is the sexual attraction or sexual gratification gained by an individual when they sexually engage with children or young, prepubescent individuals. Necrophilia is the sexual attraction or sexual gratification gained by an individual when they engage in intercourse with a corpse. Both paraphilias are socially shunned and deemed morally wrong for good reason. They are similar in that they both involve nonconsenting parties. Although a child may “consent” to the activity, their age makes them unfit to understand the situation and why it is inappropriate, therefore they will always be nonconsenting. Both a pedophile and a necrophile may gain sexual

Based off of the Comer’s textbook Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology, he defines a disorder as following the three D's: distress, deviance, dysfunction, and danger. Pedophilia is a deviance from societal norms due to the fact that wanting to have sexual relations with a child is not something that occurs in day-to-day life by the rest of society. It causes distress in the individual's life because they struggle with the urge to act upon their fantasies when knowing that what they are doing is wrong. Because of their distress it leads to dysfunction and them being able to carry-on their daily activities because of the constant urge to want to act out. Lastly the disorder causes danger not only for the victim that the individual wants to pursue, but also on the individual themselves. If the victim is sexually assaulted by the individual with that paraphilia, there can be long-lasting effects on their lives and the victim will need therapy to attempt to move on and heal themselves. The individual with pedophilia faces danger because they are putting themselves at risk of being arrested, being imprisoned, and such things of that

Unfortunately, when these two innocuous words come together, in the result is anything but. A pedophile is an adult that is sexually attracted to children (Knetzger & Muraski, 2008). Whether or not that person acts

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).