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Erotic gender differentiation in pedophilia

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Five groups of males were compared on penile volume changes elicited from viewing short movie strips and slides of nude children and adults of both genders. Subject groups were sex offenders against adult females, volunteer controls who erotically preferred adult females, volunteer controls who erotically preferred adult males, heterosexual pedophiles, and homosexual pedophiles. Pedophiles differentiated erotically between females and males less than males who erotically preferred physically mature partners.

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  1. Department of Behavioural Sexology, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, M5T 1R8, Toronto, Canada

    Kurt Freund M.D., D.Sc., Robin Watson M.Ed. & Douglas Rienzo B.Sc.

  2. Gender Identity Clinic, Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, Canada

    Robert Dickey M.D.

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This research supported in part by Grant No. MA-9134 from the Medical Research Council of Canada.

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Freund, K., Watson, R., Dickey, R. et al. Erotic gender differentiation in pedophilia. Arch Sex Behav 20, 555–566 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01550954

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