@article{ref1,
title="Reply to Dickemann",
journal="Human nature",
year="1992",
author="Feierman, Jay R.",
volume="3",
number="3",
pages="279-297",
abstract="This paper is a response to Dickemann's review of Pedophilia: Biosocial Dimensions. Her main criticism of the book is its inappropriate application of ethology to human sexology and its natural variations. She proposes instead the superiority of the &quot;social constructionist&quot; perspective. The &quot;Phylogenetic Fallacy&quot; of which her review speaks results from her erroneously having attributed ethological arguments about the phylogeny of coordinated motor patterns and sensory releasing stimuli to higher levels of behavioral-ecological strategies to which such arguments were never applied. Because no convincingly adaptive function of human pedophilia could be found at this higher level, as a working hypothesis, variant erotic age and gender orientations were both tentatively conceptualized as by-products of Darwinian natural selection for heterosexual &quot;adultophilia.&quot; The social and political implications of this perspective, when compared to social constructionism, are discussed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1045-6767",
doi="10.1007/BF02692242",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02692242"
}