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“Abused to Abuser”: An Examination of New Non-Clinical and Non-Prison Data - David L. Riegel
This study examines the “Abused-to-Abuser” (AtA) hypothesis of the etiology of adult male sexual attraction to boys, which proposes that a boy who is sexually “abused” will, when older, be predisposed to become an “abuser” of other boys.
Adult Sexual Orientation of Former Young Friends - David L. Riegel
Adult Sexual Orientation of Men who had a Consensual Sexually Expressed Boyhood Relationship with an Older Male, as Reported by these Older Partners.
A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples - Bruce Rind, Robert Bauserman, Philip Tromovitch
An Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Based on Nonclinical Samples - Bruce Rind, Robert Bauserman, Philip Tromovitch
Boyhood Sexual Experiences with Older Males: An Examination of Reactions and Effects Using an Internet Sample
Boyhood Studies
A venue for the relatively new field of scholarly work called boyhood studies, believing the topic of boyhood requires an approach that cross-fertilizes gender studies and life course studies but also looks to other disciplines within the broad field of the social and human sciences.
Childhood, Sexuality, and Danger by Agustín Malón Marco
Debate on Child Pornography’s Link to Molesting
Experts have often wondered what proportion of men who download explicit sexual images of children also molest them. A new government study of convicted Internet offenders suggests that the number may be startlingly high: 85 percent of the offenders said they had committed acts of sexual abuse against minors, from inappropriate touching to rape.
Facts About Homosexuality and Child Molestation
How Preventive Are Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs?
A Critique of School-Based Prevention Models in the United States by Natascha Wehnert-Franke, Hertha Richter-Appelt, and Christine Gaenslen-Jordan.
Internet-initiated Sex Crimes against Minors: Implications for Prevention Based on Findings from a National Study
Study showing that most offenders did not deceive victims about the fact that they were adults who were interested in sexual relationships. Most victims met and had sex with the adults on more than one occasion.
ITP Arcados - Aus der Welt der Wissenschaft (German)
Just-Well's Gallery of Persons
Research on child/adult related sex.
Magnus Hirschfeld Archive of Sexology (Chinese, English, German, Hungarian, Spanish)
Promoting, protecting and preserving sexual health through original research and by collecting, analyzing and disseminating scientific information from other sources.
Motivational and Behavioral Characteristics of Boy-attracted Pedosexual Males: Validation of a Typology Using an Internet Survey
Over the past quarter century or more, research on males who are sexually attracted to boys has focused largely on clinical patients and prisoners. In the present study, men outside these settings were recruited online to participate in a survey designed to examine a proposed typology of such males, which comprises seven classes across which the sexual dimensions of these males' relationships with boys range from purely platonic through sexually passive, active, and aggressive, while the nonsexual dimensions of nurturing and/or mentoring boys vary from substantial to absent.
Myths of Childhood Sexuality
Negotiating Stigma: Approaches to Intergenerational Sex
PhD thesis dealing with the experience of younger parties involved in intergenerational sexual relationships with adults. The study is based upon a set of interviews (nineteen in all) with people who, while they were under sixteen, were voluntarily involved in such relationships.
Onanism and Sexual Abuse: A History of Two Obsessions - Agustin Malon Marco
This historical investigation reviews the anti-masturbatory campaigns typical of child discourse from the 17th and 18th centuries. The aim of the present article is to give a brief comparative outline in which these two preoccupations, masturbation and sexual abuse, are related in some of their most significant characteristics.
On the Iatrogenic Nature of the Child Sexual Abuse Discourse
In the last decades of the twentieth century there was an unprecedented surge of anxieties and alarm over erotic experiences involving minors and adults, which has continued as a social and scientific discourse in which these relationships invariably are seen as abusive, harmful, and criminal. In this paper, the fundamental characteristics of this discourse, whose basis and pertinence are questioned, are analyzed for their possible iatrogenic effects; i.e., those induced by professional intervention, in four key areas of social reality: the erotic dimension of human beings, individual responsibility, the use of penal law as a mechanism of social control, and fostering better relations between the sexes and generations. Critical reflection on the social and professional handling of the problem includes the undesirable effects which such treatment may be producing.
Participant Victim: Atrophy of an Oxymoron
For many decades the social sciences have struggled with the issue of the child who, in flagrant violation of cultural taboos, willingly cooperates in sexual activities with an older person, or even seeks out and initiates such activities. While some have accepted the reality of this collaboration, others presumed the child to be a de facto victim. This latter assignment, however, is contradicted by the child's willing involvement, a conundrum which led in the 1950s to the unlikely combining of two essentially diametrically opposed words into the phrase "participant victim." For a time, various authors embraced this concept; however, as victimology and child sexual abuse anxiety began to take hold in the late 1970s, the "victim" was redefined as absolutely incapable of being a "participant," and the phrase has fallen into disuse.
Pedophilia: The Leipzig Study of the Social and Psychical Situation of Pedophilic Men (2006)
How is intergenerational eroticism and sexuality between adults to be assessed? Is sexual consent possible? How should a sexual minority, demonized by the media and to some extent also by science, as well as affected children, be treated by society?
Peer Support and Professional Mental Health Services for Boy-Attracted Pedosexual Males
This paper reports on an Internet survey designed to evaluate the attitude toward mental health services of males who are reluctant to utilize the commonly available professional mental health services for fear that their orientation may become an issue, as well as to examine the self-perceived nature and usefulness of electronic interchanges, the extent to which these lead to "real-life" friendships, and the associated benefits and problems.
Remarks on Aggression and Sexuality, Using the Example of Child Sexual Abuse - Reinhart Lempp
Article arguing that a clear separation between sexuality on the one hand and violence on the other is required. It is violence that children should be protected from, not sexuality. When this distinction is not made, the in fact all-too-common connection between sexuality and violence is unable to be severed.
Rind et al. (1998)
The Rind et al. controversy was a unique historical debate in scientific literature, public media, and the US government, regarding a 1998 peer reviewed paper on child sexual abuse (CSA) that conducted a meta-analysis of several samples of college students.[1] The paper was written by researchers Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman, following a related 1997 meta-analysis by Rind and Tromovitch in the Journal of Sex Research.[2] The debate resulted in the unprecedented condemnation of the paper by the United States House of Representatives and concern in the social science research community over the chilling effect the resolution may have on publication of controversial research results.
Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman: Politically Incorrect - Scientifically Correct
This paper asserts that the idea that adult/nonadult sexual behavior "should never be considered harmless" is not based on the evidence. Second, it supports the importance of differentiating abusive and nonabusive adult/nonadult sexual behavior both in the research and practice arenas. Additionally, this paper explains why a professional organization, such as the APA, would distance itself from the Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman's report. Lastly, it makes recommendations with respect to responding to the problem of adult/nonadult sexual behavior.
Sexual Consent and the Adolescent Male, or What Can We Learn from the Greeks?
Arguing that earlier cultures might offer positive paradigms worthy of consideration by policy-makers today
Sexuality, Violence, and Psychological Sequelae
This is one of the largest studies ever conducted -- anywhere -- of sexual interactions between adults and minors. It encompasses over 8,000 alleged victims, representing all reported sex offenses involving females under age 20 and males under age 14, in the German state of Lower Saxony, in the years 1969-1972.
Social Interactions Among Paedophiles
A study is to explore the range and nature of social interactions among individuals who experience a sustained and compelling attraction towards young adolescents or prepubescent children of either sex with the goal of analyzing the variety of conditions that allow paedophiles to overcome their social isolation, seek each other out and become, as a result, embedded in a deviant quasi-community or social movement.
Social Response to Age-Gap Sex Involving Minors: Empirical, Historical, Cross-Cultural, and Cross-Species Considerations
A report presented by Bruce Rind at the “Good sex, bad sex: Sex law, crime and ethics” conference in Budapest, Hungary, May 2009 arguing that social policy should follow from sober appraisal, not hyperbole and demonization.
Survey on boys sexuality
A project planning to publish an essay on teen male sexuality as revealed on the Internet by boys in the age range 13 to 17. The surveying process is presently closed, but the compilation of posts on teens' forums is still ongoing; it should last until the end of the year 2009.
The 1905 Proceedings Against the Naturalist Theodor Beer
The case against the naturalist and physiologist Theodor Beer (1866-1919), traced historically by the author, constitutes a striking yet also representative example of the ruination of a scientific career by means of a campaign of character assassination. Beer had been charged, based on scant evidence, with sexually violating two boys.
The Decline of Sex Science and the Decline of Society
Scientists who study sexual diseases have been advised by federal officials to avoid certain dangerous words in their grant applications.
The Life-World of Pedophiles: The Frameworks, Rituals,and Dramaturgy of the Pedophilic Encounter
A report on the contemporary modus operandi of the man/boy paedophile, how the paedophile becomes acquainted with the boy, and how daily contacts/interactions occur, stating that the framework, within which the paedophile relationship evolves, is often determined by the boy. The report explains that the paedophile relationship does not necessarily end from one day to the next when the boy becomes older, but that the separation can also evolve slowly over a longer period of time.
The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality
The most ambitious and comprehensive cross-cultural sex survey ever undertaken, in any language or part of the world, this three-volume encyclopedia summarizes the sexual attitudes and behavior patterns of thirty-two countries.
The Kinsey Institute
The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction.
The Social, Political, and Legal Construction of the Concept of Child Pornography
This article examines the construction of the concept of child pornography, developed in several Supreme Court decisions. New York v. Ferber (1982) separated child pornography from adult obscenity, and soon thereafter almost all pictures of nude children became illegal. These images had been common in art and usually signified innocence, although they often had an erotic component. The assumption that images of nude youths can only be viewed erotically is a significant change. The justification-that children were hurt in producing child pornography, and that distribution (even no-cost distribution) and private possession contributed to that harm-does not hold up under analysis.
Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies
The peer reviewed journal of Boyhood Studies, published by Men’s Studies Press.
Translations from German and Spanish
Books and scientific articles on the issues of sexually expressed boyhood relationships with older males translated into English
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services - Administration for Children and Families - Statistics and Research
The Children's Bureau provides State and national data on adoption and foster care, child abuse and neglect, and child welfare. The Children's Bureau also funds research in collaboration with other organizations.
When and What Boys Learn about Sexuality
A look at boyhood psychosexual development using retrospective information about the age of the respondent at the time he learned about specific intermale sexual activities, the source of his information, his age at the time of his first experience in each activity, and who was his partner in various bilateral activities.

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