I buy the claim that most people with pedophilic tendencies do not abuse children, but it does not follow from this that most child sex abusers are not pedophiles.
I agree it does not follow, but as an independent matter, it may well be mostly true. If I had to guess, I’d say 50%. I’ve seen figures ranging from 20% to 80%. It depends partly on whether you are including sex offenses against post-pubescent minors (and there’s a lot more sex offenses against them than prepubescents).
They can test this by hooking up sex offenders to a gauge that measures penis volume in response to pictures of naked children and pictures of naked adults. If you define a pedophile as someone with a stronger arousal to children than adults, then a lot of abuse is perpetrated by non-pedophiles.
One reason is that there are a lot fewer pedophiles than non-pedophiles. Then if an antisocial man (in the sense of not knowing or not caring about the welfare of children, or of putting the blame for his actions on other people, etc.) has a child available who can be manipulated into sexual activity, he sometimes will. A great many men have some physical attraction to prepubescents -- 50 percent or more.
Very little father-daughter incest is committed by pedophiles, i believe. For one thing, if the man were an exclusive pedophile, he wouldn’t be married and have a daughter in the first place.
They can test this by hooking up sex offenders to a gauge that measures penis volume in response to pictures of naked children and pictures of naked adults.
Is this legal somewhere or are you saying this just happens?
A great many men have some physical attraction to prepubescents -- 50 percent or more.
I agree it does not follow, but as an independent matter, it may well be mostly true. If I had to guess, I’d say 50%. I’ve seen figures ranging from 20% to 80%. It depends partly on whether you are including sex offenses against post-pubescent minors (and there’s a lot more sex offenses against them than prepubescents).
They can test this by hooking up sex offenders to a gauge that measures penis volume in response to pictures of naked children and pictures of naked adults. If you define a pedophile as someone with a stronger arousal to children than adults, then a lot of abuse is perpetrated by non-pedophiles.
One reason is that there are a lot fewer pedophiles than non-pedophiles. Then if an antisocial man (in the sense of not knowing or not caring about the welfare of children, or of putting the blame for his actions on other people, etc.) has a child available who can be manipulated into sexual activity, he sometimes will. A great many men have some physical attraction to prepubescents -- 50 percent or more.
Very little father-daughter incest is committed by pedophiles, i believe. For one thing, if the man were an exclusive pedophile, he wouldn’t be married and have a daughter in the first place.
Is this legal somewhere or are you saying this just happens?
Source?
Penile plethysmography happens a lot for convicted sex offenders, and has also been used with lots of volunteers.
Sources: http://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/97-048_article.html
Sarah Goode addresses the subject, citing several studies in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Addressing-sexual-Attraction-Children/dp/0415446260