Next parts of Vogt's book
Place Published | Leipzig |
Publisher | Pabs Science Publishers |
Extent | 146 pp |
Research report | |
ger, eng |
Next parts of Vogt's book
Defining Characteristics of Pedophilia
"In this study, pedophilia is regarded not as a sexual preference disorder, but rather an a priori sexual orientation [...].
The underlying psychological and sexual-science perspective on the concept of pedophilia follows the property paradigm. [...]
It is virtually incompatible with the criminological viewpoint and
sexual abuse paradigm, and therefore needs to be distinguished from
them. [...]
The fundamental problem with these paradigms lies in the fact that the
pedophilia concept becomes understood, almost exclusively, as a
behavioral category. [...]
The essential components of human sexuality are not merely observable
sexual activities, but also erotic-sexual fantasies, feelings, and
emotional connections. [...]
These are not criminally prosecutable, and are correspondingly not a primary focus. [...]
Pedosexual relationships, however, usually cannot be reduced to sexual
practices, but instead are quite often far more complex phenomena.
[... T]he sexual aspect of these normally friendship-based relationships
is, from a scientific and non-scientific perspective, usually very
strongly over-emphasized, at the expense of their socio-emotional
features. A portion of pedophilic relationships end up being
asexual. [...]
The abuse paradigm is the source of many difficulties in the scientific as well in non-scientific spheres.
[...]
In the future, Griesemer's integrative causal theory could represent a
potential alternative/complement to the widely-diffused simplistic
analytical and feminist models, in which a solid empirical basis for the
pedophile population is totally absent."