Sociology 2259 Chapter Notes - Chapter online: Manboy, Pedophilia, System On A Chip
30 Apr 2018
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Pedophile reading:
Adult-child sexual contact- An introduction:
• Pedophilia def DSM-IV- recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges/
behavs involving sexual activity w prepubescent child/ children (gen 13/younger)
• Urges must be clinically sig distress/ impairment in social, occupational/ other imp areas
funct
• Shouldn’t be included if in late adolescence and involved ongoing sexual relationship
with 12/13 y/o and for diagnosis be valid must be 16 and at least 5 years older than child
• Exclusive type- attracted only to kids/ nonexclusive type- attracted to adults and kids
• Most interested in youngsters b/c sexually immature- roughly ¼ adult pop aroused sight
nude pics kids and arousal sig correlated w conv arousal: more aroused subj by adult
heterosexual pics, more likely aroused pedophile pics= emph dif b/w fantasy and reality-
sub prop adult pop sexually aroused by and has sexual urges toward prepubescent kids,
rel few act on impulses
• Pedophiles rank low social maturity, SE, impulse control and social skills
• Pedophile psychiatric term and child molester legal term- not all child molesters true
pedophiles and not all pedophiles child molesters
• Men molest kids don’t report recurrent/ intense sexual urges toward them and men report
urges and act on them but exp no distress/ dysfunct result not included DSM-IV def
• Adults in 20, 30s and older may engage sex w girls in teens yet excluded def and yet
clearly engaging in what most like view sexual exploitation and abuse
• Clinical def pedophilia narrower than public/ pop-or social-def= inad soc purposes
• Certain adult-child sexual contacts universally regarded abuse, as pedophilia- deviant and
reprehensible- while others gen more divided opinions and muted condemnation= social
construction- laws defs and publics may not always agree
• Becker- moral entrepreneur- someone either creates new set moral rules/ enforces moral
rules= officials (politicians, lawmakers, judges, police)/ unofficial (friends, relatives,
neighbors) and matter sexual contact b/w adult and child, moral entrepreneurs may
include child’s parents
• What would under many circs been acceptable relationship (16 and 18 y/o) redef as
deviant, not only b/c ages but ancillary characteristics of Ps (ethnic, social class etc)
• Def behav as deviance, act if enterprise nec- somebody blows the whistle= what makes
act deviant not solely funct behav in q but also consequence whether someone reacts to
that behav- some cases dev socially constructed w respect where draw age line
• Rise orgs of deviants whose goal was to redef unconv, despised/ outsider status-
pedophiles (like other deviant groups) banded together neutralize/ reverse enterprise of
deviance-defining moral entrepreneurs
• NAMBLA, North American Man-Boy Love Association, one several orgs goal def adult-
child sexual contact as acceptable, nondeviant, even conv behav- abolish laws against age
consent and against child porn and create climate opinion favourable “man-boy” sexual
exp
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