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[-] kromem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'Pedophilia' has no legal definition.

And the psychiatric definition is attraction to pre-pubescent children.

And the statistics aren't actually as hard to define as you might think, though the amount of research this topic gets is woefully underrepresented relative to the social impact.

For example, on the topic of violent offenders in prison you bought up:

Of the 100 male inmates who participated in this study, 59% reported experiencing some form of sexual abuse before puberty, and all such instances occurred before or at the age of 13 years.

This issue has a much bigger and broader impact on society than most people realize.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Read your sources again. I'm not sure the are saying what you think they are saying. It says they were the victims (emphasis not dismissal) of sexual abuse before puberty. Not the perpetrators. Again, it's scientifically disingenuous to extrapolate an observation of a extreme bias population like incarcerated inmates to the whole population. This is why academic research is full of disclaimers and qualifiers.

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, that's exactly what I thought it was saying and my point, and there's similar numbers in other studies.

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