Aggression and erotic attraction toward children in incestuous and pedophilic men

Individual and family characteristics associated with intrafamilial child physical and sexual abuse.

“…For example, although Murphy, Haynes, Stalgaitis, and Flanagan (1986) found that some types of offenders showed more arousal to slide presentations of children than of adults, this pattern was not found for incest offenders. Although child sex offenders, including incest offenders, were found to respond more to audiotaped presentations of children than of adults, in other studies using audiotapes, Marshall, Barbaree, and Christophe ( 1986) and Lang, Black, Frenzel, and Checkley (1988) found that arousal responses of incest offenders were more like those of normals than those of extrafamilial offenders. Barbaree and Marshall (1989) observed that most incest offenders had less deviant sexual arousal than other offender groups, and Frenzel and Lang ( 1989) reported that intrafamilial child sexual abusers were heterogeneous in their physiological arousal to child stimuli and overlapped substantially with controls.…”

Men who molest their sexually immature daughters: is a special explanation required?

“…It has been commonly considered among professionals that intrafamilial child molesters are usually not paraphilic, but rather offend for other reasons (Groth, 1982;Hoorwitz, 1983;Julian, Mohr, & Lapp, 1980;Quinsey, 1986). The empirical literature on men who sexually abuse children in their own families supports the view that exclusively intrafamilial offenders generally have sexual preferences that, although possibly different from those of nonoffenders, are less deviant than those of men who molest extrafamilial children (Frenzel & Lang, 1989;Freund, Watson, & Dickey, 1991;Lang, Black, Frenzel, & Checkley, 1988;Marshall, Barbaree, & Christophe, 1986;Quinsey, Chaplin, & Carrigan, 1979;Seto, Lalumie `re, & Kuban, 1999). On the other hand, many researchers have reported no sexual preference differences between intrafamilial and other child molesters (Abel, Becker, Murphy, & Flanagan, 1981;Barsetti, Earls, Lalumie `re, & Belanger, 1998;Chaplin et al, 1995;Hunter, Goodwin, & Becker, 1994;Langevin & Watson, 1991;Malcolm, Andrews, & Quinsey, 1993;Murphy, Haynes, Stalgaitis, & Flanagan, 1986).…”

Evaluación del interés sexual hacia menores

“…La validez de la PPG para diferenciar a los abusadores de menores intrafamiliares de otros grupos poblaciones es menor. En la mayoría de los estudios, los abusadores no parecen tener un patrón de desviación sexual o un interés sexual claro hacia los niños que pueda ser detectado falométricamente (Haywood et al, 1990;Lang, Black, Frenzel y Checkley, 1988). Sin embargo, parece que el tipo de estímulo utilizado influye en los resultados.…”