Citation

Joyal CC, Kärgel C, Kneer J, Amelung T, Mohnke S, Tenbergen G, Walter H, Kruger THC. J. Sex. Med. 2019; 16(1): 153-154.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, International Society for Sexual Medicine, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.10.015

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We have read with utmost interest the invited commentary recently published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine entitled “Toward a Neurodevelopmental Understanding of Pedophilia.”1 The search for the cause of pedophilia is important, both for prevention and treatment purposes. However, from our clinical and research experience, Dr. Fazio’s conclusion that “we are slowly moving toward a neurodevelopmental and potentially epigenetic explanation of pedophilic sexual preference” appears premature and only in part supported by the literature she cited ...

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