Researchers recommend that these imprecise uses be avoided, because although some people who commit child sexual abuse are pedophiles, child sexual abuse offenders are not pedophiles unless they have a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children, and many pedophiles do not molest children. This use conflates the sexual attraction to prepubescent children with the act of child sexual abuse and fails to distinguish between attraction to prepubescent and pubescent or post-pubescent minors. In popular usage, the word pedophilia is often applied to any sexual interest in children or the act of child sexual abuse, including any sexual interest in minors below the local age of consent, regardless of their level of physical or mental development. The World Health Organization's ICD-11 defines pedophilic disorder in the same way as the DSM-5, with the difference that it excludes the DSM's requirement that a person must have had recurrent sexual thoughts about children for more than 6 months for the diagnosis to be valid. Pedophilic disorder is defined a pattern of pedophilic attraction accompanied by either intrapersonal distress or interpersonal struggle, or sexual acts having been committed with prepubescent children. In the DSM-5, as opposed to the DSM-4 and other previous editions, it is distinguished from pedophilic disorder. Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12, criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13. Pedophilia ( alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. For types of sexual attraction toward adolescents, see hebephilia and ephebophilia.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |