Lecture Notes Be able to distinguish between pedophilia and pederasty o Pedophilia is a sexual attraction or arousal to children Only the attraction not necessarily any action A type of paraphilia Not gender specific The child must typically be at least 5 years younger than the adult o Pederasty is a homosexual behavior between an adult male and an adolescent male boy love Behavior actual physical contact All pederasts are pedophiles but not all pedophiles are pederasts unclear o Be able to explain why some age pair sexual relationships are deviant normal or It all depends on the ages of the individuals involved specifically the gap between the ages 15 year old with 10 year old deviant 15 year old with 15 year old normal 15 year old with 17 year old unclear 15 year old with 22 year old deviant 10 year old with 10 year old unclear Know the general patterns of age pair relationships discussed in class anonymous surveys including gender differences in these patterns o Males were more likely than females to as 18 or older engage with a 16 year old or younger partner 10 vs 1 o Females were more likely than males to regret their contact with a younger o Females were more likely than males to as 16 or younger engage with an 18 partner 20 vs 8 8 partner 11 vs 7 o Females were more likely than males to as 16 or younger regret their sexual contact with an 18 partner 9 3 vs 0 Know the two Pennsylvania laws relevant to adult child sexual contact o Rape of A Child sexual intercourse with an individual who is less than 13 years old o Statutory Sexual Assault sexual intercourse with an individual who is between 13 16 and the actor is four or more years older Understand the cultural context of children and sexuality including the role of corporate pedophilia o Girls particularly little girls are being sexualized through advertising fashion modeling and competitions o Children s sexuality is being more and more culturally exploited o Corporate Pedophilia The sexualization of children for the purpose of marketing Know what the Child Porn Prevention Act was and the current federal law that governs the depiction of age in pornography o The Child Porn Protection Act of 1996 tried to outlaw any visual depiction that appears to be a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct but in 2002 it was deemed too broad and unconstitutional by the Supreme Court o The current federal law is that actors and actresses must be 18 years or older and that s it they can look and dress as young as they want as long as they re actually 18 Understand how an evolutionary biologist may explain sexual attraction to youth and the relevance and results of several studies discussed in class o Evolutionary biology suggests that sexual attraction to youth may be an evolved tendency that exists in ALL humans not just pedophiles o Felson and Cundiff 2013 on ages and genders of sex offense victims Young people both males and females are the most likely targets of The most frequent victims of those assaults are 15 years old regardless rape and other sexual assaults of gender or age of the offender 15 year old females are 9x more likely than 35 year old females to be raped and 4 75x more likely than 25 year old females 15 year old boys are more likely to be a victim of sexual assault than a Men who commit sexual assault tend to be older than men who commit 40 year old woman physical assault This high rate of sexual assault reflects the fact that their sexual attraction to young people is not reciprocated Gay men are just as likely to commit sexual assault as straight men and just as likely to target young people o The penile plethysmograph studies Found that 27 of normal males were aroused by pictures sexual stories involving girls under 12 58 of a sample of Czech soldiers were aroused by pictures and 20 of college males reported some sexual attraction to stories of girls aged 4 10 underage females Many individuals were easily aroused by other images stimuli as well Be able to discuss the role of stigma and the shameful gap in the context of adult child sexual contact o There is intense stigma surrounding adult child sexual contact so people who feel these kinds of impulses even if they don t pursue them have to keep their stigma hidden They have to keep their thoughts and feelings shut away or else they would be found out and their lives would basically be over o There is a shameful gap between their virtual identity and their actual identity They put on a mask and hide their real self a self their ashamed of Be able to describe how stigma is managed by pedophiles and the attitudes and beliefs of different types of offenders described in research studies o Goode 2010 on stigma management Good s research showed that many pedophiles manage their stigmas by passing to mask the shameful gap between their virtual and actual identity What is deviant The desire or the behavior that may follow o Hanson et al 1994 on adult child incest offenders Found that adult child incest offenders don think what they re doing is wrong These offenders are more likely to Perceive children as sexually attractive and interested Believe that there is no real harm caused to the child Feel sexually entitled as men they have the right to have their sexual needs met or desires satisfied o Elliot 2012 on Internet sex offenders Internet Sex Offenders are more willing than molesters to acknowledge that sexual contact is harmful to the child this is because they re not actually doing it looking at pictures is better than actual molesting Know what research has found regarding the prevalence and effects of adult child sexual contact o Gault and Silver 2009 3 11 1 in 10 of boys are involved in A C sexual contact 5 21 1 in 5 of girls are involved in A C sexual contact Most occur within families Found that such contact is associated with difficulties in late teens Depression anxiety acting out etc o Browning and Lauman 1997 on increased and precocious sexual interest 12 of a sample of 1 749 women over 200 experienced genital fondling or some sort of sex with an adult male oral vaginal anal before puberty Early sexual contact with an adult triggered an increased and precocious interest in sex As teens and young adults these girls had more sex and with more and older partners Precocious sexual activity lack of emotional maturity difficulties like depression anxiety etc o Rind et al 1998 and their controversial finding and explanation Found that 1 in 10 people who had