Pedophilia, hebephilia, and the DSM-V.

摘要: The term pedophilia denotes the erotic preference for prepubescent children. hebephilia has been proposed to denote pubescent children (roughly, ages 11 or 12–14), but it not become widely used. present study sought validate concept of by examining agreement between self-reported sexual interests and objectively recorded penile responses in laboratory. participants were 881 men who referred clinical assessment because paraphilic, criminal, otherwise problematic behavior. Within-group comparisons showed that verbally reported maximum attraction had greater depictions than younger older persons. Between-groups responding distinguished such from those fully grown These results indicated exists as a discriminable age-preference. authors recommend various ways which DSM might be altered accommodate findings. One possibility would replace diagnosis Pedophilia with Pedohebephilia allow clinician specify one three subtypes: Sexually Attracted Children Younger (Pedophilic Type), Age 11–14 (Hebephilic Both (Pedohebephilic Type). We further DSM-V encourage users record typical age most attract patient sexually well gender sexually.