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Sexual attraction to children who are in the stages of physical development before the onset of puberty (Tanner stage I) or in an early stage of puberty (Tanner stages II and III) has increasingly become the focus of scientific research in recent years. Even if the etiology of these non-normative sexual particularities has not yet been sufficiently explained, their existence can nonetheless be verified both physiologically and neurobiologically (Freund et al. 1972; Banse et al. 2010; Ponseti et al. 2012). Meta-analytical studies were able to demonstrate the significance of a corresponding sexual preference in the prognosis and treatment of sex offenders (Hanson and Morton-Bourgon 2005).

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Scherner, G., Amelung, T., Schuler, M., Grundmann, D., Beier, K.M. (2021). Pedophilia and Hebephilia. In: Beier, K.M. (eds) Pedophilia, Hebephilia and Sexual Offending against Children. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61262-7_1

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