Sexual Interest in Children Among an Online Sample of Men and Women

Wurtele, Sandy K.; Simons, Dominique; Moreno, Tasha

doi:10.1177/1079063213503688

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“…However, in line with the literature, more than 60% of CSA-W and CSA reported having had fantasies of this nature as compared to less than 4% of the non-CSA-W (Dombert et al, 2016;Turner et al 2014a ;Wurtele, Simons, & Moreno, 2014). This shows the importance of this risk factor in relation to the perpetration of sexual offenses against children regardless of child-related work activities.…”

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Risk Factors for Sexual Offending in Men Working With Children: A Community-Based Survey

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Identifying risk factors for sexual abuse in men who work with children and who have already abused a child could lead to more appropriate screening and prevention strategies and is thus of major scientific and societal relevance. A total of 8,649 German men from the community were assessed in an extensive anonymous and confidential online survey. Of those, 37 (0.4%) could be classified as child sexual abusers working with children, 90 (1.0%) as child sexual abusers not working with children, and 816 (9.4%) as men who work with children and who have not abused a child. We assessed the impact of working with children as an individual risk factor for self-reported child sexual abuse and compared personal factors, pedophilic sexual fantasies, deviant sexual behaviors, antisocial behaviors, and hypersexuality among the three groups. Most interestingly, working with children was significantly associated with a self-reported sexual offense against children, however, it explained only three percent of its variance. Child sexual abusers working with children admitted more antisocial and more sexually deviant behaviors than child sexual abusers not working with children and than men working with children who have not abused a child. Our findings support some of the suggestions made by other researchers concerning factors that could be considered in applicants for child-or youth-serving institutions. However, it has to be pointed out that the scientific basis still seems premature.

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Risk Factors for Sexual Offending in Men Working With Children: A Community-Based Survey

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“…17,22]; however, the findings also indicate that sexual thoughts of children can be related to sexual offending. Whilst this suggests that sexual thoughts of children should be a 'flag' for clinicians, indicating an increased risk for sexual (re)offending, offending is not inevitable and the thoughts might not be causal; thus, these thoughts should be considered alongside other personal and social factors.…”

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Men Presenting With Sexual Thoughts of Children or Coercion: Flights of Fancy or Plans for Crime?

Turner-Moore

Waterman

2017

The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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Introduction. There is limited evaluation of clinical and theoretical claims that sexual thoughts of children and coercing others facilitate sexual offending. The nature of these thoughts (what they contain) is also unknown.Aims. To examine the relationship between child/coercive sexual thoughts and sexual offending, and to determine the nature of these thoughts and any differences between sexual offending (SO), non-sexual offending (NSO) and non-offending (NO) men.Methods. In a cross-sectional computerized survey, anonymous qualitative and quantitative self-reported sexual thought and experience data were collected from 279 adult volunteers, comprising equal numbers of SO, NSO and NO men recruited from a medium-security UK prison and a community sample of 6081 men. Main Outcome Measures. Computerized Interview for Sexual Thoughts andComputerized Inventory of Sexual Experiences.Results. Three analytical approaches found child sexual thoughts were related to sexual offending; sexual thoughts with coercive themes were not. Latent class analyses identified three types of child sexual thought (primarily differentiated by interpersonal context: the reporting of own emotions, emotions of others or both) and four types of sexual thoughts of coercing others (chiefly discriminated by the other person's response: no emotional states reported, consent, non-consent, mixed). Type of child sexual thought and participant group were not significantly related. Type of coercive sexual thought and group were marginally related; the consensual type was more common for the NO group, the non-consensual type more common for the SO group, than expected statistically. SEXUAL THOUGHTS OF CHILDREN OR COERCION 3Conclusions. Child sexual thoughts are a risk factor for sexual offending and should be assessed by clinicians. Generally, sexual thoughts with coercive themes are not a risk factor, though thought type may be important (i.e. thoughts where the other person expresses an enduring lack of consent). Exploring the dynamic risk factors associated with each type of child/coercive thought may lead to more targeted treatment.

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“…It would not be surprising if brain-imaging studies were to reveal at least a subliminal sexual response when most ordinary parents stroke and hug their children-a response, in terms of brain activity that is the precursor to conscious arousal. Such findings would be in line with related findings from research into the prevalence of sexual attraction to children among "normal" adults (Becker-Blease et al 2006;Briere and Runtz 1989;Hall et al 1995;Smiljanich and Briere 1996;Wurtele et al 2014). Parents who profess to know that their love for their children is "pure" may thus be deceiving themselves-and one might note in passing that selfdeceit is problematic when the claim is made from phenomenology that introspection gives us privileged access to our motivations and values.…”

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Childhood ‘Innocence’ is Not Ideal: Virtue Ethics and Child–Adult Sex

O’Carroll

2018

Sexuality & Culture

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Malón (Arch Sexual Behav 44(4): [1071][1072][1073][1074][1075][1076][1077][1078][1079][1080][1081][1082][1083] 2015) concluded that the usual arguments against sexual relationships between adults and prepubertal children are inadequate to rule out the moral permissibility of such behaviour in all circumstances. Malón (Sex Cult 21(1):247-269, 2017) applied virtue ethics in an attempt to remedy the postulated deficiency. The present paper challenges the virtue ethics approach taken in the second of Malón's articles by: (1) contesting the view that sex is an exceptional aspect of morality, to which a virtue approach needs to be applied; (2) contesting the view that virtue ethics succeed, where other arguments fail, against the moral admissibility of child-adult sexual relations; (3) proposing that such relations can be seen as virtuous in the context of an alternative view of what constitutes virtue.

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Sexual Interest in Children Among an Online Sample of Men and Women

Cited by 76 publications

References 94 publications

Risk Factors for Sexual Offending in Men Working With Children: A Community-Based Survey

Risk Factors for Sexual Offending in Men Working With Children: A Community-Based Survey

Men Presenting With Sexual Thoughts of Children or Coercion: Flights of Fancy or Plans for Crime?

Childhood ‘Innocence’ is Not Ideal: Virtue Ethics and Child–Adult Sex

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