{"id":123,"date":"2020-09-24T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T10:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialimpactscience.org\/gender\/?p=123"},"modified":"2023-09-19T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T09:52:28","slug":"is-pedophilia-a-sexual-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialimpactscience.org\/gender\/is-pedophilia-a-sexual-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedophilia is not a sexual orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Seto MC. (2013).\u00a0 Is pedophilia a sexual orientation? <i>Archives of Sexual Behavior. 41<\/i>(1):231-6. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10508-011-9882-6\">doi: 10.1007\/s10508-011-9882-6.<\/a> PMID: 22218786.<\/li>\n<li>Malon, A.(2012). Pedophilia: A Diagnosis in Search of a Disorder. <i>Archives of sexual behavior<\/i>,\u00a0<i>41<\/i>, (5), 1083-1097. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10508-012-9919-5\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10508-012-9919-5<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blanchard, R., Watson, M. S., Choy, A., Dickey, R., Klassen, P., Kuban, M., &amp; Ferren, D. J. (1999). Pedophiles: Mental retardation, maternal age, and sexual orientation. A<em>rchives of Sexual Behavior, 28<\/em>, 111-127. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1023\/a:1018754004962\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1023\/a:1018754004962\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Seto, M. C. (2002). Precisely defining pedophilia. <em>Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31<\/em>(6), 498-499.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>IMAGE:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-812 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/socialimpactscience.org\/gender\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/science-evidence-3-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>COMMENT:<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is roboust evidence which shows that pedophilia is not a sexual orientation. In this regard, <b>American Psychological Association<\/b> has considered it as a mental disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Similarly, there is also evidence about the nonexistent significant relation between pedophilia and homosexuality.<\/p>\n<h3>OTHER SOURCES:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>APA. (2013, October)<i>.Statement of the American Psychological Association Regarding Pedophilia and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)<\/i>. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2013\/10\/pedophilia-mental\">https:\/\/www.apa.org\/news\/press\/releases\/2013\/10\/pedophilia-mental<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dailey, T.J. (n.d). <i>Pedophilia and Homosexuality<\/i>. Retrieved from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/2002\/06\/29\/pedophilia-and-homosexuality\/b385cfb3-8b58-449d-8af9-0cfdcd278978\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/opinions\/2002\/06\/29\/pedophilia-and-homosexuality\/b385cfb3-8b58-449d-8af9-0cfdcd278978\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES: Seto MC. (2013).\u00a0 Is pedophilia a sexual orientation? Archives of Sexual Behavior. 41(1):231-6. doi: 10.1007\/s10508-011-9882-6. PMID: 22218786. Malon, A.(2012). Pedophilia: A Diagnosis in Search of a Disorder. Archives of sexual behavior,\u00a041, (5), 1083-1097. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10508-012-9919-5 Blanchard, R., Watson, M. S., Choy, A., Dickey, R., Klassen, P., Kuban, M., &amp; Ferren, D. J. (1999). Pedophiles: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11],"themes":[69],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scientific-evidence","tag-scientific-evidence","themes-gender-based-violence"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pedophilia is not a sexual orientation - Scientific Evidence Platform - Gender<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES: Seto MC. (2013).\u00a0 Is pedophilia a sexual orientation? 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