title: Paraphilia or perversion?
abstract: Human sexual instincts can become fixated on a wide variety of targets, resulting in behaviours ranging from harmless fetishism to child abuse. The recent flood of investigations into historic cases in the UK has brought child protection issues to the top of the news agenda and shown that society is still far from addressing these problems in a rational, evidence-based way maximising harm reduction.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D005329:Fetishism, Psychiatric / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D010378:Pedophilia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D012725:Sexual Behavior