8. Paedophilia: The Medical and Legal Response

1. Constantine, L., in Cook, M. and Wilson, G., Love and Attraction, Pergamon Press, London, 1980, pp.503-508. [Back]

2. Brant, R. and Tisza, V. B., ‘The sexually misused child’, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 47, 1977, pp.80—90. [Back]

3. Constantine, L., op. cit., p.505. [Back]

4. Schofield, M., The Sexual Behaviour of Young People, Longmans, London, 1965. [Back]

5. Gibbens T. G. N. and Prince, J., Child Victims of Sex Offences, I.S.T.D., London, 1963. [Back]

6. F. J. Tolsma’s study is quoted in West, D. J., Homosexuality Re-examined, Duckworth, London, 1977. [Back]

7. Bender and Grugett, A., ‘A follow-up of children who had a typical sexual experience.’ American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1952, pp.825-837. [Back]

8. Rasmussen, A., ‘The Importance of Sexual Attacks’, Acta Psychiatrica Neuralogica, 9, 1934, pp.351—433. [Back]

9. Burton, L., Vulnerable Children, Routledge, London, 1969. [Back]

10. These consequences are outlined in more detail in Constantine L., op. cit., pp. 503-508. [Back]

11. West, in summarising the literature on the effects of adult-boy sexual relations, arrives at a similar conclusion. See West, D. J., op. cit., pp.208—220. [Back]

12. This literature is well summarised in Cook, M. and Wilson, G., op. cit. [Back]

13. This is the reason, of course, why so much discussion has centred on. alternative procedures to punishment-oriented approaches in incest cases. [Back]

14. West, D. J., op. cit., p.246. [Back]

15. Ibid., p.216. [Back]

16. Ibid., p.214. [Back]

17. Ibid., p.253. [Back]

18. Kinsey, A. et al., Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male, Saunders, Philadelphia, 1953, p.744. [Back]

19. Ibid., p.739. [Back]

20. Bremer, J., Asexualization: A follow-up Study of 244 Cases, Macmillan, New York, 1959. [Back]

21. West, D. J., op. cit., p.2S4. [Back]

22. Ibid., p.254. [Back]

23. Ibid., p.2S4. [Back]

24. Ibid., p.254. [Back]

25. Roeder, F. R., ‘Stereotoxic lesions of the tuber cinereum in sexual deviation’, Confinia Neurologica, 27, 1966, pp. 162—164. [Back]

26. Correspondents in the paedophile journal Magpie made this abundantly clear in their letters to the journal. [Back]

27. West., D. J., op. cit., p.270. [Back]

28. Edwards, N. B., ‘Assertive training in a case of homosexual paedophilia’, Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 3, 1972, pp.55—63. [Back]

29. This case is reported in Olsen, J., The Man with Candy, Talmy Franklin, London, 1975. [Back]

30. West, D., op. cit., p.211. [Back]

31. Ibid., pp.211—217. [Back]

32. An excellent summary of the literature demonstrating the low incidence of homosexual interference with children can be found in Gay Teachers and Student Group Newsletter, Melbourne, November, 1978. See also Homosexual Offences, Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research Report, No. 3, Sydney, 1977. [Back]

33. Gebhard, P. et al., Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types, Bantam Books, New York, 1967. [Back]

34. Ibid., p.205. [Back]

35. Mohr, J. W., Turner, R. E. and Jerry, M. B., Pedophilia and Exhibitionism, Toronto University Press, Toronto, 1964. [Back]

36. Gagnon, J., ‘Female child victims of sex offenses’, Social Problems, 13, 1965, pp.176—192. [Back]

37. See for example Chelton, W. R., ‘A Study of Incest’, International Journal of Offrnder Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 19, 1975, pp. 139—153. [Back]

38. Some of these approaches are described in Meiselman, K. C., Incest, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1978. [Back]

39. West, D. J., op. cit., p.220. [Back]

40. Serber, M. and Keith, C. G., ‘The Atascadero Project: Model of a Sexual Retraining program for incarcerated pedophiles’, Journal of Homosexuality, 1, 1974, pp.87—97. [Back]