Citation

Cooper AJ, Swaminath S, Baxter D, Poulin C. Can. J. Psychiatry 1990; 35(4): 334-337.

Affiliation

University of Western Ontario, London.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Canadian Psychiatric Association, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2346901

Abstract

A 20 year old female pedophile exhibiting multiple paraphilias and who had been both a victim of incest and an active participant, undertook extensive clinical, psychometric, endocrine and laboratory sexual arousal studies. Her psychiatric, psychometric and physiologic arousal profiles showed similarities to those of a sizable proportion of male child molesters, especially incestors. It is suggested that laboratory arousal tests (using the vaginal photoplethysmograph) may have a role in the assessment of some female sex offenders.

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