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Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : vii Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12, [ 3 ] psychiatric diagnostic criteria for ...
Pedophilia has a range of definitions, as found in psychiatry, psychology, the vernacular, and law enforcement. The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) defines it as a "disorder of adult personality and behaviour" in which there is a sexual preference for children of prepubertal or early pubertal age.
Although there is no known cure for pedophilia, [133] there are a number of treatments for pedophiles and child sexual abusers. Some of the treatments focus on attempting to change the sexual preference of pedophiles, while others focus on keeping pedophiles from committing child sexual abuse, or on keeping child sexual abusers from committing ...
Scientists who study the disorder say there is a growing consensus that pedophilia is determined in the womb.
301.1 Affective personality disorder (Include: cycloid personality, cyclothymic personality, depressive personality) 301.2 Schizoid personality disorder; 301.3 Explosive personality disorder (Include: aggressive: personality/reaction, aggressiveness, emotional instability (excessive), pathological emotionality, quarrelsomeness)
In March, a mother was horrified to find a pedophile symbol on a toy she bought for her daughter. Although the symbol was not intentionally placed on the toy by the company who manufactured the ...
The DSM-II, published in 1968, expanded the "sexual deviation" diagnostic category (now located within the larger category of "personality disorders and certain other nonpsychotic mental disorders") so that different "sexual deviations" were listed under ten individual diagnostic codes: homosexuality, fetishism, pedophilia, transvestitism ...
The DSM-5's diagnostic criteria for pedophilia and the general medical literature define pedophilia as a disorder of primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children, thus excluding hebephilia from its definition of pedophilia. [11] [12] However, the DSM-5's age criteria extends to age 13. [6]