Men's sexual interest in children: one-year incidence and correlates in a population-based sample of Finnish male twins.
In a study of 1,310 Finnish adult male twins we found that sexual interest in children aged 12 or younger was reported by 0.2% of the sample. Sexual interest in children aged 15 or younger was reported by 3.3%. Participants reporting sexual interest in children aged 15 or younger were younger, reported stronger sexual desire, and had experienced more childhood sexual and nonsexual abuse. The present study is the first to give a population-based estimate of the incidence of sexual interest in children among adult men. The 12-month incidence of sexual interest in children below the age of 16 years is roughly comparable to the one-year incidence of major depression or the lifetime prevalence of transvestitic fetishism.
a Åbo Akademi University , Turku , Finland.
Pekka
P
Santtila
Jan
J
Antfolk
Anna
A
Räfså
Maria
M
Hartwig
Heikki
H
Sariola
N Kenneth
NK
Sandnabba
Andreas
A
Mokros
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D004200:Diseases in Twins / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007989:Libido; D008297:Male; D010378:Pedophilia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology; D011159:Population Surveillance; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014190:Transvestism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics / Q000523:psychology
child sexual abuse; hebephilia; incidence; pedophilia; sexual interest