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To: Lazarus_Long who started this subject4/21/2002 10:22:24 AM
From: J. C. Dithers   of 21057
 
Can pedophilia be cured? FWIW, a controversial new view....

there may be nothing fundamental about a person that makes him
a "pedophile." So-called pedophiles do not have some genetic, or incurable,
disease. Men who desire children can change their behavior to conform with the
norms of a society that reviles it. Pedophilia can be renounced; in the medical
language we now use to describe this sexual proclivity, it can be "cured." Indeed,
contrary to politicians' claims, the recidivism rates of child sex offenders are
among the lowest in the criminal population. Analyses of thousands of subjects in
hundreds of studies in the United States and Canada have found that about 13
percent of sex offenders are rearrested, compared with 74 percent of all prisoners.
With treatment, the numbers are even better. The state of Vermont, for example,
reported in 1995 that its reoffense rates after treatment were only 7 percent for
pedophiles, 3 percent for incest perpetrators, and 3 percent for those who had
committed "hands-off" crimes such as exhibitionism.


abcnews.go.com
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