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Last Updated: Summer 2007
Academic Papers
Articles, essays and papers that have been written by eminent professionals in a variety of disciplines or have been published in acadmic journals.
| “Apparently, I am a Pedophile:” Living and Coping as a Child-Lover in the Netherlands | The term ‘pedophile’ is among the most loaded and controversial in Western culture. In my study I seek to gain a better understanding of the men that would fall into the category of ‘pedophile’, a phrase that is more often than not misused and misrepresented by our society. To gain this insight I have interviewed six self-identified child-lovers or pedophiles about their life experiences with these feelings, how they came to realize their feelings, how they came to terms with their feelings, how they express their feelings, and how they cope with their feelings. The paper discusses and defines certain misused terminology, examines past research on the topic of pedophiles and child-lovers, and attempts to better represent a group that is not allowed to vocalize their feelings. | |
| Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 31, No. 6, December 2002 | Online transcript of the journal’s Special Section on Pedophilia: Concepts and Controversy. | |
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Boylovers and Their Influence on Boys | A discussion of the psychological effects on boys of sexual relations with adult men. Written by the late Edward Brongersma, former Dutch senator and founder of a foundation which studies youth sexuality. |
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Boys on their Contacts with Men: A Study of Sexually Expressed Friendships | A study by Theo Sandfort on the effects on 25 boys who had had sexual contactswith adult men. Originally published in 1987. |
| Child Abuse: Statistics, Research and Resources | Clinical psychologist Jim Hopper discusses the trouble with media reporting of research data and the methodological problems with research into child abuse. Citing a number of examples, he shows how the statistics can be manipulated to create the result desired. | |
| The Child Lovers: A Study of Paedophiles in Society | An academic study of the personalities and social environments of members of the Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE). Includes case studies. | |
| DSM-IV-TR and the Paraphilias: An Argument for Removal | An academic paper written by Drs. Charles Moser and Peggy Kleinplatz which examines the guidelines use in the DSM for classifying paraphilias. They conclude that the classifications are so seriously flawed that they should be removed from the DSM altogether. | |
| The Effects of Early Sexual Experiences: A Review and Synthesis of Research | 1979 study by Larry L. Constantine evaluates 30 different studies of intergenerational sexual encounters and analyzes the reactions of the participatants and the effect of outside influences on these reactions. | |
| The Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality | Online publication of the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality. Scholarly articles about all aspects of human sexuality. | |
| Growing Up Sexually | An exhaustive study of the cultural factors that govern affect the sexuality of children. The work deals with theoretical principals regarding sexual development, provides ethno-historical data indicating the development of youth sexuality throughout history in various cultural contexts and contains an extensive bibliography of its source materials. | |
| Helping People with Pedophilic Feelings | Text of a lecture given by Frans Gieles at the World Congress of Sexuality in 2001 as well as the background documentation used in the lecture. | |
| An Historical Background [of Intergenerational Relationships] | The late Edward Brongersma, former Dutch politician and researcher into intergenerational relationships writes about the history of intergenerational relationships and how intolerance for them has grown over the last century. | |
| I Didn’t Know How to Deal with It | Frans Gieles discusses the reactions of several young people to their consensual sexual encounters with adults. He then discusses ways to ensure that intergenerational sexual experiences are as positive and beneficial for the child. | |
| Internet-initiated sex crimes against minors: Implications for prevention based on findings from a national study | Victims in these crimes were primarily 13- through 15-year-old teenage girls (75%) who met adult offenders (76% older than 25) in Internet chat rooms. Most offenders did not deceive victims about the fact that they were adults who were interested in sexual relationships. Most victims met and had sex with the adults on more than one occasion. Half of the victims were described as being in love with or feeling close bonds with the offenders. Almost all cases with male victims involved male offenders. Offenders used violence in 5% of the episodes. | |
| IPTJournal — “Problems of Research into Adult/Child Interaction” | A discussion of ways research can be carried out into adult-child sexual interactions despite the barriers currently in place preventing such research from being conducted. | |
| In Search of an Etiological Model Of Pedophilia | A discussion of current methodology in the study of pedophilia and its shortcomings. Suggestions about how research into pedophilia can be improved by introducing study of brain structure as well. | |
| Intergenerational and Egalitarian Models | Chapter from Rictor Norton’s A Critique of Social Constructionism, in which Norton argues that the the assumed transition from the intergenerational to the egalitarian models of homosexualitywas neither as smooth nor as complete as is commonly assumed. | |
| Intergenerational Sexual Contact: A Continuum Model of Participants and Experiences | Academic paper argues that many children do not suffer ill effects from intergenerational sexual relations and that societies ‘protection’ of children may in fact be inhibiting their healthy sexual development. | |
| Is Paedophilia Violent? | A paper, presented by Tom O’Carroll to the World Congress of Sexology in 2001, argues that society’s stereotype of childlove (pedophilia) as violent is not supported by historical fact and scientific research. | |
| Just-Well’s Gallery of Persons | Several links to current academic reports and research on the topic of adult-child sex. | |
| The Kinsey Institute | The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction. The Institute was founded in 1947, just before the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948. | |
| A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples | Controversial academic report which attacks the assumption that victims of sexual abuse are significantly traumatized. Also in PDF Format. | |
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MHAMic — Male Homosexual Attraction to Minors Information Center | This site brings a wide range of reliable scientific information about sexual attraction to boys together in a single easy-to-use location. |
| Negotiating Stigma: Approaches to Intergenerational Sex | Doctoral thesis dealing with the experiences of teenagers involved in intergenerational sexual relationships with adults. Examines the way in which interviewees validated, explained, and understood their activitiesin the light of a dominant view that prohibits intergenerational sexual contacts and that casts the younger party as necessarily the victim of sexual abuse by an adult. | |
| New Research Shows Positive Side to Adolescent Sexuality and Challenges Dominant View of Teen Sexuality as Problematic (PDF) | Researchers find sexual experience during adolescence may be associated with positive perceptions of one’s self as a sexual being and better sexual health and discuss implications of these findings for policies on sexuality education. gPositive Perspectives on Adolescent Sexuality: Part 1h is the title of the new special issue of Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC. This peer-reviewed journal is published by the National Sexuality Research Center (NSRC) at San Francisco State University in partnership with University of California Press and is available exclusively online at http://www.SexualityResearch.net. The special issue of the journal is the first of two parts containing original research from leaders in the field of adolescent sexuality. | |
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On Boys and Boylovers | An academic paper by Benjamin Jarod discussing the phenomenon of boylove. The paper attempts to refute common misconceptions about boylove and explain positive aspects of man-boy sexual relations. (Page missing) |
| The Origins of Peace and Violence | A report by Dr. James Prescott which shows how the deprivation of physical affection acts as main cause of depression, aggression and drug abuse. | |
| Paedophilia: A Factual Report | Studies the characteristics of those attendees of a conference on reform of sexual laws who identified as pedophiles. Uses the study and selected references to argue that pederasty should be permitted. English translation of 1985 book by Frits Bernard, in PDF or HTML format. | |
| The Pattern of Sexual Politics: Feminism, Homosexuality and Pedophilia | Article by political science professor Harris Mirkin in the Journal of Homosexuality that compares the public debates over feminism and homosexuality with the current political debate over amaros (pedophilia). | |
| Pedophilia, Science and Self-Deception | Author Arne Frederiksen argues that the mental health community routinely mis-diagnose pedophiles as having cognitive distortion because they are unable to accept that children can enjoy sexual activity. Furthermore, they base their diagnoses on insufficient and poorly conducted research into pedophilia and child sexuality. | |
| Pedosexual Resources Directory |   Extensive collection of research resources concerning sexual relations between children and adults. |
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| Remarks on Aggression and Sexuality, Using the Example of Child Sexual Abuse | Reinhart Lempp discusses societal conceptions of violence and sexual abuse and questions whether these conceptions are valid. He points out that violent acts towards children, such as corporal punishment are not proscribed whislt any sort of sexual act — even a simple kiss — is often misconstrued as abuse. | |
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Sexual Awareness in Boys | An empirical investigation into the ages at which males become aware of,and begin to practice, various aspects of sexuality. |
| Sexuality, Violence and Psychological After-Effects. A Longitudenal Study of Cases of Sexual Assault which were Reported to the Police | In a major 1983 study including 8,000 subjects, Michael Baurmann discovered that the assumption that sexual contact between minors and adults overwhelmingly led to traum in the younger person was totally false. Instead, he found that very few of the younger parties had long-lasting negative effects if they experienced negative effects at all. | |
| Treatments to Change Sexual Orientation | In this letter to the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Fred Berlin suggests that pedophilia can be considered to be a sexual orientation just like heterosexuality and homosexuality. While not condoning illegal activity, he believes that a different approach needs to be taken in regards to people with a pedophilic orientation. He states: “The American Psychiatric Association should develop a contemporary policy statement regarding pedophilia. It should encourage nondiscriminatory and objective public policies and professional education, increased availability and access to appropriate psychiatric care, and the immediate establishment of an intensive research effort to more effectively address this important societal and mental health issue.” | |
| Veridicus—Spotlight of Truth (http://veridicus. |
Bibliography of academic papers on the topic of inter-generational relationships. Contains abstracts of most of the papers, full text of a limited number of them. (Currently unavailable) | |