NA, c/o Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Department of Research Synthesis, Intervention and Evaluation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany.
Arch Sex Behav. 2018 Feb;47(2):375-387. doi: 10.1007/s10508-017-1042-1. Epub 2018 Jan 12.
Among pedophilic men, social contact with children has been discussed as creating a risk situation for sexual abuse. Also, pedophilic men searching for such contact are seen as harboring more beliefs legitimizing sexual contact with children. However, social contact may also decrease false beliefs. We tested these competing views in an anonymous Internet survey with a non-forensic, non-clinical sample of 104 self-classified pedophilic men. Results showed that both increased social and physical contact were significantly linked to fewer legitimizing beliefs toward sex with children, even when controlling for past psychotherapy, educational level, social desirability, and age. Controlling for previous conviction for child sexual offenses reduced the effect for physical contact, but not for social contact. Exploratory analyses showed that either type of contact had no significant effect on total self-perceived risk of offending. However, pedophilic men with physical contact with children perceived a higher risk of more direct (i.e., child abuse) than indirect offenses (i.e., child pornography offenses) compared to pedophilic men without physical contact. Despite limitations of the correlational design and the only small to moderate effects, the results challenge the assumption that complete avoidance of contact with children is necessary for persons with pedophilia to reduce the risk of abusive behavior.
在恋童癖男性中，与儿童的社会接触被认为会增加性虐待的风险。此外，寻求这种接触的恋童癖男性被认为更相信与儿童发生性接触是合理的。然而，社会接触也可能减少错误的信念。我们在一项匿名的互联网调查中，对 104 名自我认定的恋童癖男性进行了非法医、非临床样本测试，检验了这些相互竞争的观点。结果表明，无论是增加社会接触还是身体接触，都与对与儿童发生性行为的合法化信念显著减少有关，即使在控制了过去的心理治疗、教育程度、社会期望和年龄等因素之后也是如此。控制之前因儿童性犯罪而被定罪的情况，减少了身体接触的影响，但对社会接触没有影响。探索性分析表明，这两种类型的接触都不会对自我感知的犯罪风险产生显著影响。然而，与没有身体接触的恋童癖男性相比，有身体接触的恋童癖男性认为更直接（即虐待儿童）的犯罪风险高于间接（即儿童色情制品犯罪）的犯罪风险。尽管存在相关设计的局限性和仅有的小到中等效应，但研究结果挑战了这样一种假设，即恋童癖患者要降低虐待行为的风险，就必须完全避免与儿童接触。
