“…Once these men were assured of complete confidentiality and immunity from prosecution, they admitted to having engaged in sexual activity with an average of 150.2 boys each. Perhaps no less surprising are laboratory-derived findings that even "normal" males (i.e., men from the general population recruited from university settings, employment agencies, and through newspaper advertisements) typically have some degree of erection to photographs of nude female children who are as young as 6 years old (Farrall, 1992;Freund, McKnight, Langevin, & Cibiri, 1972;Langevin, Hucker, Ben-Aron, Purins, & Hook, 1985). Further, approximately 20% of men from college and community samples reported having at least some sexual attraction to children (Briere & Runtz, 1989;Hall, Hirschman, & Oliver, 1995) and 19% of men from a university sample reported experiencing intrusive sexual thoughts about engaging in sexual acts with children or minors (Byers, Purdon, & Clark, 1998 Fortunately, a variety of inhibitory mechanisms prevent the majority of "normal" males from acting out in real-world situations.…”