1908, Charles Frederic Marshall, The sexual question: a scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study for the cultured classes, London: Rebman, translation of Die sexuelle frage eine naturwissenschaftliche, psychologische, hygienische und soziologische Studie für Gebildete by Auguste Forel, →OCLC, page 254:
Krafft-Ebing, who does not believe in the existence of a hereditary pederosis, gives the name erotic pedophilia to the abuse of children by depraved persons.
1989, Hans Eysenck, “8 Sexual Deviations”, in The Causes and Cures of Criminality, New York, NY: A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation, →OCLC, page 229:
Strictly speaking, the term pedophilia means love of children, and in its broadest sense refers to a sexual act (sodomy, intercourse, indecent assault, gross indecency) performed against a person below the age of consent, this being 16 for heterosexual behavior and 21 for homosexual behavior.
1920 April, “[reviewed work:]Sexualpathologie; ein Lehrbuch für Arzte und Studierende by[…]Magnus Hirschfeld”, in Journal of Mental Science, volume 66, number 273, Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland, →ISSN, page 157:
[…]discussed, […] various aspects of pedophilia erotica, in connection with which Hirschfeld states (contrary to the opinion formerly expressed by others) that he has never known an outrage on a child to be committed by a subject who was not found on careful examination to be seriously defective mentally.
1921, James Winfred Bridges, An outline of abnormal psychology, 2nd revised edition, Columbus, OH: R. G. Adams, →OCLC, page 82:
d. Pedophilia erotica (e. g. pederasty), the sexual object is an immature child.
1948, “People v. Chapman”, in George Hathaway Dession, editor, Criminal law, administration and public order: selected cases, statutes, commentaries, and other materials on criminal law, procedure and policy, Supreme Court of Michigan, 1942. 301 Mich. 584, 4 N. W. (2d) 18., Charlotesville, VA: Michie Casebook, →OCLC, page 89:
[…]}his psychosexual deviation is very likely to assume a much more ominous manifestation, that of pedophilia (the use of children as sexual objects).
1984, Seth L. Goldstein, Investigating child sexual exploitation: law enforcement's role, Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department. of Justice, →OCLC, page 9:
Law enforcement must recognize that pornography and prostitution are only symptoms of the greater problem of pedophilia and that all three aspects are a serious and grave threat to our communities.
1990 August, M. Ashley Ames, David A. Houston, “Legal, social, and biological definitions of pedophilia”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 19, number 4, →ISSN, →PMID:
Most important, much of the research has accepted a legal definition of pedophilia, treating all offenders convicted of "child molestation" as pedophiles, regardless of the age or appearance of the victim.
2002 July, David Benatar, “Two Views of Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity, Pedophilia, and Rape”, in Public Affairs Quarterly, volume 16, number 3, University of Illinois Press, →JSTOR, page 191:
Many people think that promiscuity is morally acceptable, but rape and pedophilia are heinous.
2003 October, Bhagwan A. Bahroo, “Pedophilia”, in Family Court Review, volume 41, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN:
Sex offenses against children are considered the worst of crimes, even among criminals themselves. Attitudes have changed from blaming the victim to holding the perpetrator responsible for the actions. […] Society and the medical and legal communities have to present a more feasible definition of the problem, addressing specifically the acts that fall under the term of pedophilia.
2009, Ann Wolbert Burgess, Paul Thomas Clements, “Child and adolescent victimization”, in Victimology: theories and applications, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, published 2010, →ISBN, page 150:
Prior to the Internet, people who engaged in pedophilia usually had to pursue this activity alone and had to keep it extremely secret.
2011 August 5, Victoria Pynchon, “FLDS Girls Vindicated as Pedophile "Prophet" Awaits Sentencing”, in forbes.com[1], archived from the original on 2012-01-11:
Even more disturbing than Jeffs’ cult-sanctioned pedophilia was the revelation during trial that three of Jeffs’ “wives” were in the room holding down the 12-year old victim while Jeffs raped her.
2012 April 10, “Pedophiles”, in victimsofviolence.on.ca[2], Ottawa, ON: Victims Of Violence, archived from the original on 2012-01-05:
Although pedophilia is a clinical diagnosis, any pedophilic acts are against the law and considered to be a crime under both the Criminal Code of Canada as well as under the Child Welfare Act.
2012 June 22, James Cantor, “Do pedophiles deserve sympathy?”, in edition.cnn.com[3], Cable News Network, archived from the original on 2013-06-20:
As details of the accusations of sexual abuse emerged from the Jerry Sandusky trial, and as the public looks on with horror, a central element to the case that has received scant attention is pedophilia itself.¶ "Pedophilia" was long used as a synonym for "child molestation," and both were often seen as psychological failures of self-control.
2012 October 26, Selah Hennessy, “BBC Facing Criticism Over Pedophilia Allegatiions”, in voanews.com[4], archived from the original on 2012-10-28:
The allegations involving as many as 300 victims of pedophilia or sexual abuse have been made against former TV entertainer Jimmy Savile,[…]
2013 January 21, Kyle Edwards, “Pedophilia, Preemptive Imprisonment, and the Ethics of Predisposition”, in blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk[5], Oxford: University of Oxford, archived from the original on 2013-01-25:
[…]it would be strange to say that we think having sex with a child is wrong because pedophilia is an acquired rather than an innate attraction; we think it is wrong because children are not capable of consenting to sex due largely to their underdeveloped reasoning and decision-making capacities.
2014 February 19, Mike LaBossiere, “Orientation & Ethics”, in talkingphilosophy.com[6], archived from the original on 2015-04-29:
Obviously enough, homosexual rape and homosexual pedophilia would be wrong—but because of the rape and pedophilia.
Mild pedophilia is bad. Violent pedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild pedophilia, go away and learn how to think.
2014 December 11, Frances Martel, “ISIS Guide to Female Slaves Permits Pedophilia, Rape, Beatings in Name of Allah”, in breitbart.com[8], archived from the original on 2015-01-27:
Most horrifyingly, the manual endorses pedophilia with girls. “It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse,” the guide claims, without defining how a girl can be “fit” for intercourse without having reached puberty.
2015 January 30, Selwyn Duke, “Pedophilia, American Style: Legitimizing Child Rape”, in thenewamerican.com[9], archived from the original on 2015-02-12:
While most Americans would consider the notion laughable, Dunn points out that pedophilia and pederasty have often in history been institutionalized. He first cites imperial Rome and then writes, “Closer in time we discover British upper-class homosexuality, fed by the bizarre ‘public’ school system, in which young boys in the throes of sexual awakening were put under the complete control of slightly older youths, who proceeded to select favorites and make them their ‘fags.’”
Noun: "interest in children as sexual subjects" (an internal paraphilia)
1960, John Drzazga, “Pedophilia erotica”, in Sex crimes, Springfield, IL: Thomas, →OCLC, page 190:
Pedophilia is the abnormal desire or erotic craving by an adult for sexual relations with children.
1961, Frank S. Caprio, Donald R. Brenner, Sexual behavior: psycho-legal aspects, New York: Citadel Press, →OCLC, page 204:
Pedophilia is a deviation of the sexual impulse characterized by the compulsive urge to accost or assault children sexually. The word is of Greek derivation and means "love of boys." It is a common sexual offense.
2007, Ueno C1, Oda H, Inoue M, Ariki N, Hasaba M, Kinoshita T., “[Crime prevention in high-functioning pervasive developmental disorders with paraphilia]”, in Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi, volume 109, number 7, Tokyo: Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, →ISSN, →PMID:
Because pedophilia targets sacrifice innocent and defenseless children, it is critical to prevent such sex crimes by understanding the psychopathology of PDD with paraphilia, especially pedophilia.
2010 July 1, “Pessimism about pedophilia”, in health.harvard.edu[10], Harvard Health Publications, archived from the original on 2015-04-26:
Pedophilia, the sexual attraction to children who have not yet reached puberty, remains a vexing challenge for clinicians and public officials. Classified as a paraphilia, an abnormal sexual behavior, researchers have found no effective treatment. Like other sexual orientations, pedophilia is unlikely to change.
Noun: "use of children as sexual objects" (an external behavior)
1908, Charles Frederic Marshall, The sexual question: a scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study for the cultured classes, London: Rebman, translation of Die sexuelle frage eine naturwissenschaftliche, psychologische, hygienische und soziologische Studie für Gebildete by Auguste Forel, →OCLC, page 254:
Krafft-Ebing, who does not believe in the existence of a hereditary pederosis, gives the name erotic pedophilia to the abuse of children by depraved persons.
1920 April, “[reviewed work:]Sexualpathologie; ein Lehrbuch für Arzte und Studierende by[…]Magnus Hirschfeld”, in Journal of Mental Science, volume 66, number 273, Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland, →ISSN, page 157:
[…]discussed, […] various aspects of pedophilia erotica, in connection with which Hirschfeld states (contrary to the opinion formerly expressed by others) that he has never known an outrage on a child to be committed by a subject who was not found on careful examination to be seriously defective mentally.
1921, James Winfred Bridges, An outline of abnormal psychology, 2nd revised edition, Columbus, OH: R. G. Adams, →OCLC, page 82:
d. Pedophilia erotica (e. g. pederasty), the sexual object is an immature child.
1948, “People v. Chapman”, in George Hathaway Dession, editor, Criminal law, administration and public order: selected cases, statutes, commentaries, and other materials on criminal law, procedure and policy, Supreme Court of Michigan, 1942. 301 Mich. 584, 4 N. W. (2d) 18., Charlotesville, VA: Michie Casebook, →OCLC, page 89:
[…]}his psychosexual deviation is very likely to assume a much more ominous manifestation, that of pedophilia (the use of children as sexual objects).
1984, Seth L. Goldstein, Investigating child sexual exploitation: law enforcement's role, Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department. of Justice, →OCLC, page 9:
Law enforcement must recognize that pornography and prostitution are only symptoms of the greater problem of pedophilia and that all three aspects are a serious and grave threat to our communities.
1990 August, M. Ashley Ames, David A. Houston, “Legal, social, and biological definitions of pedophilia”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 19, number 4, →ISSN, →PMID:
Most important, much of the research has accepted a legal definition of pedophilia, treating all offenders convicted of "child molestation" as pedophiles, regardless of the age or appearance of the victim.
2002 July, David Benatar, “Two Views of Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity, Pedophilia, and Rape”, in Public Affairs Quarterly, volume 16, number 3, University of Illinois Press, →JSTOR, page 191:
Many people think that promiscuity is morally acceptable, but rape and pedophilia are heinous.
2003 October, Bhagwan A. Bahroo, “Pedophilia”, in Family Court Review, volume 41, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN:
Sex offenses against children are considered the worst of crimes, even among criminals themselves. Attitudes have changed from blaming the victim to holding the perpetrator responsible for the actions. […] Society and the medical and legal communities have to present a more feasible definition of the problem, addressing specifically the acts that fall under the term of pedophilia.
2009, Ann Wolbert Burgess, Paul Thomas Clements, “Child and adolescent victimization”, in Victimology: theories and applications, Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, published 2010, →ISBN, page 150:
Prior to the Internet, people who engaged in pedophilia usually had to pursue this activity alone and had to keep it extremely secret.
2011 August 5, Victoria Pynchon, “FLDS Girls Vindicated as Pedophile "Prophet" Awaits Sentencing”, in forbes.com[11], archived from the original on 2012-01-11:
Even more disturbing than Jeffs’ cult-sanctioned pedophilia was the revelation during trial that three of Jeffs’ “wives” were in the room holding down the 12-year old victim while Jeffs raped her.
2012 April 10, “Pedophiles”, in victimsofviolence.on.ca[12], Ottawa, ON: Victims Of Violence, archived from the original on 2012-01-05:
Although pedophilia is a clinical diagnosis, any pedophilic acts are against the law and considered to be a crime under both the Criminal Code of Canada as well as under the Child Welfare Act.
2012 June 22, James Cantor, “Do pedophiles deserve sympathy?”, in edition.cnn.com[13], Cable News Network, archived from the original on 2013-06-20:
As details of the accusations of sexual abuse emerged from the Jerry Sandusky trial, and as the public looks on with horror, a central element to the case that has received scant attention is pedophilia itself.¶ "Pedophilia" was long used as a synonym for "child molestation," and both were often seen as psychological failures of self-control.
2012 October 26, Selah Hennessy, “BBC Facing Criticism Over Pedophilia Allegatiions”, in voanews.com[14], archived from the original on 2012-10-28:
The allegations involving as many as 300 victims of pedophilia or sexual abuse have been made against former TV entertainer Jimmy Savile,[…]
2013 January 21, Kyle Edwards, “Pedophilia, Preemptive Imprisonment, and the Ethics of Predisposition”, in blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk[15], Oxford: University of Oxford, archived from the original on 2013-01-25:
[…]it would be strange to say that we think having sex with a child is wrong because pedophilia is an acquired rather than an innate attraction; we think it is wrong because children are not capable of consenting to sex due largely to their underdeveloped reasoning and decision-making capacities.
2014 February 19, Mike LaBossiere, “Orientation & Ethics”, in talkingphilosophy.com[16], archived from the original on 2015-04-29:
Obviously enough, homosexual rape and homosexual pedophilia would be wrong—but because of the rape and pedophilia.
Mild pedophilia is bad. Violent pedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild pedophilia, go away and learn how to think.
2014 December 11, Frances Martel, “ISIS Guide to Female Slaves Permits Pedophilia, Rape, Beatings in Name of Allah”, in breitbart.com[18], archived from the original on 2015-01-27:
Most horrifyingly, the manual endorses pedophilia with girls. “It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse,” the guide claims, without defining how a girl can be “fit” for intercourse without having reached puberty.
2015 January 30, Selwyn Duke, “Pedophilia, American Style: Legitimizing Child Rape”, in thenewamerican.com[19], archived from the original on 2015-02-12:
While most Americans would consider the notion laughable, Dunn points out that pedophilia and pederasty have often in history been institutionalized. He first cites imperial Rome and then writes, “Closer in time we discover British upper-class homosexuality, fed by the bizarre ‘public’ school system, in which young boys in the throes of sexual awakening were put under the complete control of slightly older youths, who proceeded to select favorites and make them their ‘fags.’”
Noun: "sexual offenses committed against children" (a crime)
1984, Kenneth V. Lanning, Ann Wolbert Burgess, Child pornography and sex rings, Washington, DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice, →OCLC, page 4:
Although pedophilia is a sex offense in all States, there is a strong need among pedophiles to communicate with others regarding their interest in children.
1995, Nancy L. Bolles, The satanic vision of the Marquis de Sade, Madison: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC, page 12:
For Sade, […] there is no free will; man is completely at the mercy of his environment and his heredity, and his every action is dictated by powers outside his control. Since man is merely a physical being; he is born with tastes and preferences which cannot be altered. Certain proclivities, such as pedophilia, sodomy, or incest, are physical in origin. ln keeping with his philosophical position, Sade defends himself against the accusation of having committed sexual crimes. Instead, the prisoner Sade argues that perversions are hereditary:[…]
1996, Vitit Muntarbhorn, “International perspectives and child prostitution in Asia”, in Forced labor: the prostitution of children, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, →OCLC, page 26:
Pedophile rings are known to operate from North America. In a recent case, one American group set up a so-called children’s shelter in Thailand as a front for pedophilia. The organizer was arrested and imprisoned.
2010 February 9, “FY2010 Pedophilia certification”, in wikileaks.org[20], archived from the original on 2014-03-12:
UNICEF Senior Advisor Ted Maly stated in a February 4, 2010 email to USUN that "UNICEF has not granted official status, accreditation, or recognition to any organization which promotes and condones or seeks the legalization of pedophilia, or which includes as a subsidiary or member any such organization. Any such organization could not be a proper partner of UNICEF. We can also reconfirm that if such a grant of official status or recognition were to have been made inadvertently or through lack of complete due diligence, UNICEF would take immediate and appropriate steps to rectify the situation." Based on our extensive engagement with UNICEF, including as a board member, we believe this statement accurately reflects UNICEF's strong record of opposition to pedophilia.
2010 Winter, Evelyn Schlatter, Robert Steinback, “10 anti-gay myths debunked”, in Intelligence Report[21], number 140, Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center, →OCLC:
Pedophilia is illegal sexual activity, and a law that more severely punished people who attacked pedophiles would not change that.
2012 April 10, “Pedophiles”, in victimsofviolence.on.ca[22], Ottawa, ON: Victims Of Violence, archived from the original on 2012-01-05:
Although pedophilia is a clinical diagnosis, any pedophilic acts are against the law and considered to be a crime under both the Criminal Code of Canada as well as under the Child Welfare Act.
2013 January 29, Stella Tsolakidou, “Female teacher arrested for pedophilia in Athens”, in greekreporter.com[23], archived from the original on 2013-01-31:
So far investigations have confirmed the existence of a Greek movement supporting pedophilia and the Greek Police have already tracked down five of its members.
2014 January 17, Pinar Tremblay, “Can Turkish government do more to reduce pedophilia?”, in al-monitor.com[24], archived from the original on 2014-01-20:
Pedophilia, rather than “child bride,” as a Turkish social media campaign have been suggesting for several months, is the more accurate term to use. Most pundits are vehemently against associating the positive term “bride” with the crime. One activist called it “rape with parental consent and wedding bells.”
2014 September 24, “Vatican arrests former archbishop on pedophilia charges”, in voanews.com[25], archived from the original on 2015-04-20:
The Vatican on Tuesday arrested a former archbishop accused of paying for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic, the first-ever arrest inside the city state on charges of pedophilia.
2014 December, Fred S. Berlin, “Pedophilia and DSM-5: The Importance of Clearly Defining the Nature of a Pedophilic Disorder”, in Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law[26], volume 42, number 4, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, →ISSN, →PMID:
Given the common misconception that Pedophilia is synonymous with child sexual abuse, DSM-5 has done little to define and characterize a Pedophilic Disorder as a psychiatric condition in its own right, independent of its potential criminal implications.
2015 March 24, Gal Cohen, “10 suspects arrested for pedophilia”, in jerusalemonline.com[27], archived from the original on 2015-05-01:
“Pedophilia is a growing threat on social networks, and cunning predators are trying to trap unsuspecting youth,” said Tel Aviv district commander Benzi Sau.
Pedophilia is defined as a sexual interest in prepubescent children. It is empirically linked with sexual offending against children: Child pornography offenders and sex offenders with child victims are more likely to be pedophiles based on self-report or objective measures of sexual interests.
2012 February 6, Ray Blanchard, Laura J. Martin (reviewer), “What is pedophilia?”, in webmd.com[28], WebMD, LLC, archived from the original on 2015-01-10:
Some pedophiles may be as attracted to adults as they are to children, but it's hard to know how common that is. That's because most pedophilia research is based on people who were arrested for sexual offenses against children, and they may tend to exaggerate their sexual interest in adults to seem more "normal," Blanchard says.
2014 October 5, Margo Kaplan, “Pedophilia: a disorder, not a crime”, in nytimes.com[29], New York: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 2014-10-11:
By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness.
2003 January 13, John Cloud, “Pedophilia”, in Time[30], New York: Time:
According to Dr. Fred Berlin, […]pedophilia is a distinct sexual orientation marked by persistent, sometimes exclusive, attraction to prepubescent children.
2011 February 14, Hubert Van Gijseghem, “[testimony in] Evidence to Parliament of Canada, House of Commons Committees, Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (40-3), number 048”, in parl.gc.ca[31], Ottawa: Parliament of Canada:
With respect to pedophilia, as I believe Dr. Quinsey just explained, in other words and perhaps better than I, as I have already said, it is a sexual orientation. Of course, even an individual whose sexual orientation involves a quasi-exclusive preference for prepuberscent children can remain chaste or abstinent.
2012 September 7, Makini Brice, “The science of pedophilia: is it a sexual orientation?”, in medicaldaily.com[32], New York: IBT Media Inc., archived from the original on 2015-04-30:
There is a natural aversion to pedophilia in the United States and worldwide. […] some researchers, most of them out of Canada, say that they cannot control. Because they say that it is a sexual orientation, no matter the amount of therapy, prison time, or beatings will change them.¶ […] […]Cantor was suspicious of that idea, because he did not think that pedophilia was linked with control.[…]¶ Cantor's scans have shown that the issue with pedophiles stems rather from the white matter, or the signals connecting different areas of the brain. In pedophiles, it is as if their signals are crossed, […] While most people see children have protective instincts, pedophiles have sexual instincts instead.
2013 January 14, Alan Zarembo, “Many researchers taking a different view of pedophilia”, in latimes.com[33], Los Angeles: Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-01-16:
Like many forms of sexual deviance, pedophilia once was thought to stem from psychological influences early in life. Now, many experts view it as a sexual orientation as immutable as heterosexuality or homosexuality.¶ […] In searching for causes of pedophilia, researchers have largely dismissed the popular belief that abuse in childhood plays an important role. Studies show that few victims grow up to be abusers, and only about a third of offenders say they were molested.
2013 August 26, James Cantor interviewed by Alice Dreger, “What Can Be Done About Pedophilia?”, in theatlantic.com[34], archived from the original on 2013-08-29:
Thus, although pedophilia should never be confused with homosexuality, pedophilia can be meaningfully described as a sexual orientation. Scientists have more specifically called it an “age orientation.” Caution has to be used, however, so as not to confuse the scientific use of the phrase “sexual orientation” with its use in law. Because the phrase “sexual orientation” has been used as shorthand (or as a euphemism) for homosexuality, there exist laws and policies barring discrimination on the basis of “sexual orientation.” These were not likely intended to refer to pedophilia.
2010 July 1, “Pessimism about pedophilia”, in health.harvard.edu[35], Harvard Health Publications, archived from the original on 2015-04-26:
Pedophilia, the sexual attraction to children who have not yet reached puberty, remains a vexing challenge for clinicians and public officials. Classified as a paraphilia, an abnormal sexual behavior, researchers have found no effective treatment. Like other sexual orientations, pedophilia is unlikely to change.
2013 November 1, Deborah Brauser, “DSM-5 typo: pedophilia described as 'Sexual Orientation'”, in medscape.com[36], archived from the original on 2013-11-04:
The phrase "sexual orientation" was used erroneously in the discussion section about pedophilia in the recently released fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).¶ […] The APA adds pedophilic disorder is a "paraphilia" and not a sexual orientation.[…]¶ […] "[…] diagnostic criteria ultimately remained the same," they wrote at the time. "Only the disorder name will be changed from pedophilia to pedophilic disorder."
1992 December, Kenneth V. Lanning, Child molesters: a behavioral analysis for law enforcement officers investigating cases of child sexual exploitation, 3rd edition, Prepared under cooperative agreement #86-MC-CX-K003 from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, →OCLC, pages 46–47:
The terms pedophile and pedophilia are psychological or psychiatric diagnostic terms with specific meanings within those professions. For example, some psychological or psychiatric professionals differentiate between pedophiles (those who prefer prepubertal children) from hebephiles (those who prefer postpubertal children). Although it has become common in police jargon to refer to both of these offenders generally as pedophiles, use of professional diagnostic terminology in legal proceedings has resulted in challenges to the expertise of the investigator. Accordingly, it is recommended that law enforcement officers avoid the use of such loaded psychiatric terminology.
2010, Thore Langfeldt, “Is 'pedophilia' a useful or a confusing concept? An empirical study on sexual abuse of children, sexual orientation and typology: implications for therapy”, in Sexual Offender Treatment[37], volume 5, number 1, Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2013-04-24:
In the ICD-10 […] and in the DSM-IV-TR […] classification systems, pedophilia is classified as a mental disorder, and viewed as a disturbance in the choice of the sexual object which is more or less separated from problems concerning the development of sexual orientation.
2012 April 10, “Pedophiles”, in victimsofviolence.on.ca[38], Ottawa, ON: Victims Of Violence, archived from the original on 2012-01-05:
Although pedophilia is a clinical diagnosis, any pedophilic acts are against the law and considered to be a crime under both the Criminal Code of Canada as well as under the Child Welfare Act.
2013 November 1, Deborah Brauser, “DSM-5 typo: pedophilia described as 'Sexual Orientation'”, in medscape.com[39], archived from the original on 2013-11-04:
The phrase "sexual orientation" was used erroneously in the discussion section about pedophilia in the recently released fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).¶ […] The APA adds pedophilic disorder is a "paraphilia" and not a sexual orientation.[…]¶ […] "[…] diagnostic criteria ultimately remained the same," they wrote at the time. "Only the disorder name will be changed from pedophilia to pedophilic disorder."
2014 December, Fred S. Berlin, “Pedophilia and DSM-5: The Importance of Clearly Defining the Nature of a Pedophilic Disorder”, in Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law[40], volume 42, number 4, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, →ISSN, →PMID:
Given the common misconception that Pedophilia is synonymous with child sexual abuse, DSM-5 has done little to define and characterize a Pedophilic Disorder as a psychiatric condition in its own right, independent of its potential criminal implications.
1949, J. Paul De River, The sexual criminal: a psychoanalytical study, Springfield, IL: Charles Thomas, →OCLC, page 75:
In the condition known as sadistic pedophilia, the individual prefers children or young adolescents as his victims to gratify his sadistic impulse and to satisfy his sexual appetite. This condition is more prevalent among males than females.
1950, Earl R. Biggs, How to protect your child from the sex criminal: rules and suggestions for the protection of children from sexual molestation, assault and murder, Portland, OR: New Science Book, →OCLC, page 21:
When pedophilia and sadism are combined in the same individual then we have one who will mistreat, torture and kill children. Truly dangerous criminals.
1985, Ron Langevin, Stephen J. Hucker, Lorraine Handy, Helen J. Hook, John E. Purins, Anne E. Russon, “Erotic preference and aggression in pedophilia: a comparison of heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual types”, in Ron Langevin, editor, Erotic preference, gender identity, and aggression in men: new research studies, Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 156:
It is misleading to describe the pedophiles' behaviors as passive and childlike. In many cases some form of penetration had been desired and acted out. In some cases violence was fused with sexual outlet. The relationship of sadism to pedophilia therefore needs careful empirical investigation. The present study offered a start into exploring the nature of erotic preferences in the pedophilias.
1900 October, Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, “Forensic aspect of sexual pervert impulses and obsessions”, in The alienist and neurologist[41], volume 21, number 4, St. Louis, →ISSN, page 681:
In these cases the sexual pervert obsession appears as an equivalent of an impossible coitus and the realization of the obsession seems but the deliverance from an intolerable sexual emotion. Under this order should be placed the sadistic (also often fetichistic) groups of girl-stabbers, robe-cutters, rubbers, exhibitionists, hair-clippers, thieves of female linen, of napkins, handkerchiefs, shoes, and even certain cases of beastiality and of erotic pedophilia.
1906, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume V: Erotic Symbolism. The Mechanism of Detumescence. The Psychic State in Pregnancy. (amended reprint, 1920), chapter i, page 11:
It seems to me that the phenomena of erotic symbolism may be most conveniently grouped in three great classes, on the basis of the objects or acts which arouse them. [¶¶] I. Parts of the Body. — A. Normal: Hand, foot, breasts, nates, hair, secretions and excretions, etc. [¶] B. Abnormal: Lameness, squinting, pitting of smallpox, etc. Paidophilia or the love of children, presbyophilia or the love of the aged, and necrophilia or the attraction for corpses, may be included under this head, as well as the excitement caused by various animals.
1926, Medical Journal and Record: A National Review of Medicine and Surgery, volume CXXIV, 161/1:
Narcisism, as displayed by our patient, seems to have belonged more nearly to the autoerotic phase of love of himself rather than to its extension in the homosexual phase of someone like himself. His inclinations clinging ever to a mutually erotic and satisfactory situation with a little girl was irritated only by the inimical social system and the promptings of the biological law of recreative procreation which he transgressed. One must keep clearly in mind in dealing with pedophilia the distinction between that mediating homosexuality, and the more pure perversion which is our subject.
1962, Robert E. L. Masters, Forbidden sexual behavior and morality: an objective re-examination of perverse sex practices in different cultures, New York: Julian Press, →OCLC, page 367:
Generally speaking, we today attribute two possibly distinct motivations to the adult who has sexual relations with a child: He is depraved, or he is perverted. […] Where the perversion is concerned, […] we now use the word pedophilia—which formerly meant the love, sexual and/or ideal, of boys, but which has more recently come to be used to include children of both sexes. (P. L. Harriman, for example, in his New Dictionary of Psychology, accepts the term as it was employed by Krafft-Ebing in 1879, defining pedophilia as "a sex perversion in which young children arouse erotic impulses in an adult.")
1962, Robert E. L. Masters, Forbidden sexual behavior and morality: an objective re-examination of perverse sex practices in different cultures, New York: Julian Press, →OCLC, pages 399–400:
It is said that in the Middle East the Prophet Mohammed contributed to the spread of pedophilia by his promise that young boys, "forever in their bloom," would wait upon the faithful in Paradise.
1984 October, Irving Praeger, “Statement of Irving Praeger, Ph.D., director, Children's Justice Center, Professor of Law, University of La Verne, California”, in National symposium on child molestation, Washington, DC: United States. Department of Justice, published 1985, →OCLC, page 109:
We have not indulged in any other experiments in psychiatric criminology other than in the area of pedophilia. We have never bought this idea — which is old, by the way, centuries old — that crime should be treated as a disease.
1986 September 14, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Child Protection Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session on H.R. 1704 and related bills, Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O., published 1987, →OCLC, page 110:
No single characteristic of pedophilia is more pervasive than the obsession with child pornography.
1997 June, Robert A. Prentky, Raymond A. Knight, Austin F.S. Lee, Child sexual molestation: research issues, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, →OCLC, page 4:
According to DSM-I V, the onset of pedophilia “usually begins in adolescence,” and its course is “usually chronic.”
2012 October 26, Chris Meyer, Julia Kirby, “Jimmy Savile, the BBC, and Pedophiles as Externalities”, in hbr.org[42], archived from the original on 2015-04-29:
Until quite recently, societies were simply not aware of how common pedophilia is, or how cunning pedophiles can be.
2013 January 8, Jillian Rayfield, “Rush Limbaugh: Left will “normalize pedophilia” like it did gay marriage”, in salon.com[43], archived from the original on 2013-01-09:
Rush Limbaugh tied the push to legalize same-sex marriages to a “movement to normalize pedophilia,”[…]
2015 January 2, Steven Petrow, “Civilities: Will a gay couple’s “tacky” wedding cash bar add fire to their straight relatives’ ire?”, in washingtonpost.com[44], Washington, DC, archived from the original on 2015-04-28:
When you write, “my ex-boyfriend likes boys,” what exactly do you mean? My guess is that you’re being flip about saying that he is attracted to men. But with so much concern about pedophilia these days, please don’t mindlessly confuse such words.
