Mental Disorders: The Four Types Of Paedophilia
INTRODUCTION
In ancient Greek and Roman empires, the concept and behaviours of paedophilic nature have been identified, it is not a recent phenomenon. The term paedophilia is officially added to the DSM-II (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- II) in 1952, it began to be viewed by experts as a mental disorder and a type of sexual deviation. In the DSM-III released in 1980, the term paedophile is given in full description (Haran, 2014). Paedophilia is also a psychiatric disorder in which sexual attraction some adults feel towards to prepubescent children that may lead to adult-children sex. The word also used to refer to the practice of adult-child sex(Liu, 2012). According to the Charlotte Bühler for distinction of a child, up to six years old is “small children”, from six to twelve is “big children”. For the children …show more content…
Basically, based on differences of sex and age, there is 4 types of possible fundamental behaviour forms of paedophile sexual relationships, which is between a boy and a women, between a girl and a man, between a boy and a man, between a girl and a woman or vice versa (Bernard, 1985). Paedophile are typically not married, because they have a sexual preference for children, and usually have some difficulty in performing sexually with adults (Lanning, 1992).
For instance, in the general population, there is roughly 30% of all of the left-handed or ambidextrous.The paedophilic brain is different in a few aspects compared to healthy person, such as abnormalities in the frontal cortex and the amount of grey and white matter. There are two misconception about paedophilia, first common misconception is the person that is sexually abused during their childhood will become a paedophile. Another misconception is a person or anyone that will certainty molest children is a paedophile(Haran,
In ancient Greek and Roman empires, the concept and behaviours of paedophilic nature have been identified, it is not a recent phenomenon. The term paedophilia is officially added to the DSM-II (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- II) in 1952, it began to be viewed by experts as a mental disorder and a type of sexual deviation. In the DSM-III released in 1980, the term paedophile is given in full description (Haran, 2014). Paedophilia is also a psychiatric disorder in which sexual attraction some adults feel towards to prepubescent children that may lead to adult-children sex. The word also used to refer to the practice of adult-child sex(Liu, 2012). According to the Charlotte Bühler for distinction of a child, up to six years old is “small children”, from six to twelve is “big children”. For the children …show more content…
Basically, based on differences of sex and age, there is 4 types of possible fundamental behaviour forms of paedophile sexual relationships, which is between a boy and a women, between a girl and a man, between a boy and a man, between a girl and a woman or vice versa (Bernard, 1985). Paedophile are typically not married, because they have a sexual preference for children, and usually have some difficulty in performing sexually with adults (Lanning, 1992).
For instance, in the general population, there is roughly 30% of all of the left-handed or ambidextrous.The paedophilic brain is different in a few aspects compared to healthy person, such as abnormalities in the frontal cortex and the amount of grey and white matter. There are two misconception about paedophilia, first common misconception is the person that is sexually abused during their childhood will become a paedophile. Another misconception is a person or anyone that will certainty molest children is a paedophile(Haran,