[PDF][PDF] Multiple paraphilic diagnoses among sex offenders
GG Abel, JV Becker… - Journal of the …, 1988 - researchgate.net
GG Abel, JV Becker, J Cunningham-Rathner, M Mittelman, JL Rouleau
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online, 1988•researchgate.netThe psychiatric literature suggests that paraphiliacs can be expected to participate in only
one type of deviant sexual behavior. Using self-reports gathered with assured confidentiality
from 561 nonincarcerated paraphiliacs, we discovered that most paraphiliacs have had
significant experience with as many as ten different types of deviant sexual behavior without
regard, in many cases, to gender, age, and familial relationship of the victim. The relevance
of these findings to our understanding of paraphiliacs and their treatment is discussed. Sex …
one type of deviant sexual behavior. Using self-reports gathered with assured confidentiality
from 561 nonincarcerated paraphiliacs, we discovered that most paraphiliacs have had
significant experience with as many as ten different types of deviant sexual behavior without
regard, in many cases, to gender, age, and familial relationship of the victim. The relevance
of these findings to our understanding of paraphiliacs and their treatment is discussed. Sex …
The psychiatric literature suggests that paraphiliacs can be expected to participate in only one type of deviant sexual behavior. Using self-reports gathered with assured confidentiality from 561 nonincarcerated paraphiliacs, we discovered that most paraphiliacs have had significant experience with as many as ten different types of deviant sexual behavior without regard, in many cases, to gender, age, and familial relationship of the victim. The relevance of these findings to our understanding of paraphiliacs and their treatment is discussed.
Sex crimes are a major social problem. Despite changing cultural trends toward open discussion of sexual behavior, information about sex crimes and the individuals who commit them remains sketchy and inconclusive. Psychiatry, psychology, and sociology have tended to avoid the study of sex offenders, perhaps because they are viewed with disdain by all levels of society. Instead, the focus has been on the victims of sex crimes-certainly worthwhile and im-
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