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Attraction Versus Action in Pedophilic Desire: The Role of Personality Traits and Childhood Experience.

J Psychiatr Pract

November 2018

COHEN, YASEEN, and GALYNKER: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY NDUKWE, KOPEYKINA: Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY SIEGFRIED: Long Island University Brooklyn, New York, NY.

Objective: Comparison of pedophilic individuals who do and do not refrain from sexually engaging with children may offer critically important information regarding the differential contributors to pedophilic attraction versus behavior. This study compared 5 traits that are potentially contributory to pedophilic attraction or behavior in both minor-attracted persons (MAPs) who refrain from sexually engaging with minors (nonacting MAPs) and those who have acted on pedophilic attractions and subsequently entered the criminal justice system (forensic MAPs).

Methods: Subjects included 195 nonacting MAPs, 50 forensic MAPs, and 60 healthy controls.

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