Recent Articles in the Text-Based Media about Pedophilia 

Muller, Robert (17 March 2016) Non-Offending Pedophiles Suffer From Isolation, Psychology Today

Stillman, Sarah (14 March 2016) When Kids Are Accused of Sex Crimes, The New Yorker Magazine

Firsthand (10 March 2016) Four Misconceptions About Pedophiles

Campea, Matthew (10 March 2016) Tackling A Tough Subject: Why I Made a Documentary About Pedophiles, Firsthand

Martin, Knelman (9 March 2016) I, Pedophile dares to empathize, The Star

Geiger, Dorian (25 February 2016) Newfoundland's Child Sex Doll Trial Raises Uncomfortable Questaiona About Peohilia and the Law, Vice

Frisch, Ian (3 February 2016) Dark Net: The Virtuous Online Pedophile Forums, Vocativ

Sullum, Jacob (1 February 2016) For Looking at Child Porn, a Judge Imposes a Sentence of Days Rather Than Years, Reason

Brown, Kristen (1 February 2016) Should this man go to prison for buying a child sex doll?, Fusion

Weinstein, J (Senior Judge) (21 January 2016) Sentencing Memorandum in Case Involving Child Pornography, US District Court, Eastern NY

Willis, Paul (15 January 2016) Realizing You're A Pedophile Can Make you Want To Kill Yourself, Vice Magazine

D'Anasastasio, C (14 January 2016) Can Virtual Sex Prevent Pedophiles from Harming Children In Real Life, Vice Magazine

Morin, Ric (11 January 2016) Can Child Sex Dolls Keep Pedophiles From Offending, Atlantic Magazine

Smith, Sean (28 November 2015) Of People and Pedophiles, The Varsity Magazine

BBC News Magazine (24 November 2015) Are Pedophiles Brains Wired Differently?, BBC News Magazine

Bleyer, Jennifer (3 November 2015) Sympathy for the Deviant, Psychology Today

Soh, Debra (27 October 2015) The Pedophile I Could Not Help, Salon.com

Connolly, Kate (16 October 2015) How Germany Treats Paedophiles Before They Offend, Guardian

Nickerson, Todd (30 September 2015) I'm a Pedophile, You're the Monsters, Salon.com

Prescott, D (24 September 2015) As courts censure civil detention practices, is it time for professionals to speak up?, Forensic Psychologist

Nickerson, Todd (21 September 2015) I'm a Pedophile, But Not a Monster, Salon.com

Whitney, Brian (July 2015) Facing Disturbing Truths About Pedophilia Could Help Us Keep Kids Safer, Pacific Standard

Wilson, Alexander McBride (May 2015) Child Celibate: Understanding Non-Offending Pedophilia, Lens Culture

Babchishin, Kelly (20 February 2015) How Precision in Language Can Help Prevent Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment

Evans, Robert (8 February 2015) 5 Ways We Misunderstand Pedophilia (That Makes it Worse), cracked.com

Hurst, Dominic (4 February 2015) Can You Stop A Paedophile Before They Even Start?, BBC News Magazine

Ferguson, Kate (2 December 2014) When society mistakes pedophiles for molesters, dw.com

Kaplan, Margo (26 October 2014) Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime, The New York Times

Letourneau, Elizabeth (10 October 2014) We Need to Make It Easier for Pedophiles to Seek Help, Time Op-Ed

Roache, Rebecca (13 August 2014) Should we do more to help paedophiles?, Practical Ethics, University of Oxford

Malone, Luke (11 August 2014) You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?, medium.com

Sicha, C (11 August 2014) The Pedophiles Who Don't Want to Hurt Children, The Awl

Hildebrandt, A (August 2014) Virtuous Pedophiles Gives Support Therapy Cannot, CBCNews

Lytton, Charlotte (23 May 2014) Study Finds Pedophiles' Brains Wired to Find Children Attractive, The Daily Beast

McKenzie-Murray, Martin (10 May 2014) Inside the Mind of a Pedophile, The Saturday Paper (Australia)

Kane, Laura (22 December 2013) Is Pedophilia a Sexual Orientation?, Toronto Star

Dreger, A (26 August 2013) What Can Be Done About Pedophilia?, The Atlantic

Goldberg, D (26 August 2013) I, Pedophile, The Atlantic

Letourneau, E (6 August 2013) A Prevention-First Approach to Child Sexual Abuse, The Baltimore Sun

Cantor, James (15 July 2013) Happy Birthday, Virtuous Pedophiles!, Sexology Today Blog

Rosenfeld, Steven (21 February 2013) Are Some Men Born Pedophiles? New Science Says Yes, But Sexologists Say Not So Fast, AlterNet

Edwards, Kyle (21 January 2013) Pedophilia, Preemptive Imprisonment, and the Ethics of Predisposition, Practical Ethics, University of Oxford

Aviv, Rachel (14 January 2013) The Science of Sex Abuse, The New Yorker

Zarembo, Alan (14 January 2013) Many researchers taking a different view of pedophilia, LA Times

Henley, Jon (2 January 2013) Paedophilia: Bringing Dark Desires To Light, The Guardian

Berlin, Fred (9 October 2012) Sandusky Will Die in Prison, and We Talked To a Pedophilia Expert, vice

Bleyer, Jennifer (24 September 2012) How Can We Stop Pedophiles? Stop treating them like monsters, slate.com

Jefferson, Cord (7 September 2012) Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children, gawker.com

Clarke-Flory, Tracy (30 June 2012) Meet pedophiles who mean well: The men behind VirtuousPedophiles.com are attracted to children but devoted to denying their desires, Salon.com

Cantor, James (21 June 2012) Do Pedophiles Deserve Sympathy?, CNN

Audio or Video Media stories on Pedophilia (and a few scientific presentations too)

Redd, Nancy; Cantor, James; Coleman, Jenny (31 December 2015) How Do You Stop Child Porn Before It Starts, Huffington Post

Dempsey, Rachyll (December 2015) [163] Pedophilia with Psychological Assessment, Inc, Security Guy Radio

BBC (November 2015) The Truth About Child Sex Abuse, BBC

Aquillano, Kate (12 November 2015) Experts: There's a difference between pedophilia and child molestation, DrDrew

Selby, Helena (13 July 2015) The Nature of Paedophilia, BBC Radio 4 (Audio)

Malone, Luke (5 June 2015) Lived Experiences of Young Adults Attracted to Minors, Moore Center

Eidman, Alex (17 September 2014) Exploring Options to Help Pedophiles, OPB Think Out Loud

McPeake, Dan (with Luke Malone) (16 June 2014) Cyberbullies, Mass Media and Pedophiles, Beta PRX Endeavours (Audio)

Munger, Andrew (1 May 2014) Born That Way?, CBCradio 'Ideas' (Audio)

Malone, Luke (11 April 2014) Tarred And Feathered: Help Wanted, This American Life (Audio)

Camilleri, Ricky (12 February 2014) Inside the Pedophile Brain, HuffPost Live

Cantor, James (21 January 2014) Mysteries of the Mind: The Pedophile's Brain, The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Ach, Diana (26 May 2013) If I'm attracted to children, I must be a monster, DW.com (Audio)

Finkelhor, David (29 October 2012) Child Sexual Abuse Conference: Overview and Epidemiology, Penn State (Video)

Cantor, James (2011) Brain Research and Pedophilia: What it Means for Assessment, Treatment, and Policy, ATSA (Video)

Scientific Journal Articles

Leach, C., Stewart, A., Smallbone, S., (Nov. 23, 2015).  Testing the Sexually Abused Sexual Abuser Hypothesis: A Prospective Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study.  Child Abuse and Neglect

Houtepin, J., Sijtsena, J., Bogaert, S., (June 22, 2015), Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, Being Sexually Attracted to Minors: Sexual Development, Coping With Forbidden Feelings And Relieving Sexual Arousal in Self-Identified Pedophiles

Beier, KM, Grundmann, D, Scherner, G, Konrad, D, Amelund T (February, 2015), Journal of Sexual Medicine, The German Dunkelfeld project: a pilot study to prevent child sexual abuse and the use of abusive child images, 529-542.

Seto, M. C., & Eke, A. W. (2015). Predicting recidivism among adult male child pornography offender: Development of the Child Pornography Offender Risk Tool (CPORT). Law and Human Behavior, 39, 416-429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000128

Mokros, A., & Habermeyer, E. (online). Regression to the mean mimicking changes in sexual arousal to child stimuli in pedophiles. Archives of Sexual Behavior. do: 10.1007/s10508-015-0652-8

Cantor J.M., Lafaille S., Soh D., Moayedi M., Mikulis D.J., Girard T.A.  Arch Sex Behav. 2015.  Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Pedophilia.

Tenbergen, G., Wittfoth, M., Frieling, H., Ponseti, W., Walter, M., Walter, H., Beier, K., Schiffer, B. Tillmann, Kruger, H.C., Hum. Neurosci., 24 June 2015, The neurobiology and psychology of pedophilia: recent advances and challenges

Poeppl, T. B., Eickhoff, S. B., Fox, P. T., Laird, A. R., Rupprecht, R., Langguth, B., et al. (2015). Connectivity and functional profiling of abnormal brain structures in pedophilia. Hum. Brain Mapp. 36, 2374–2386.

Kärgel, C., Massau, C., Weiss, S., Walter, M., Kruger, T. H., and Schiffer, B. (2015). Diminished functional connectivity on the road to child sexual abuse in pedophilia. J. Sex. Med. 12, 783–795.

Dombert, Beate & Schmidt, Alexander et al (2015) Running Head: Sexual Interest in Prepubescent Children, Journal of Sex Research

Federoff, P., Curry, S., Muller, K., Ranger, R. Briken, P., Bradford, J. (12/9/2014), Evidence That Arousal to Pedophilic Stimuli Can Change: Response to Bailey, Cantor and Lalumiere, Archives of Sexual Behavior

Bailey, J.M. (7/2014), A Failure to Demonstrate Changes in Sexual Interest in Pedophilic Men, Archives of Sexual Behavior

Federoff, P., Curry, S., Muller, K., Ranger, R. Briken, P., Bradford, J. (2014), Changes in Sexual Arousal as Measured by Penile Plethysmography in Men with Pedophilic Interest, Archives of Sexual Behavior

Mohnke, S., Muller, S., Amelung, T., Kruger, T. H., Ponseti, J., Schiffer, B., et al. (2014). Brain alterations in paedophilia: a critical review. Prog. Neurobiol. 122C, 1–23.

Fazio, R. L., Lykins, A. D., and Cantor, J. M. (2014). Elevated rates of atypical handedness in paedophilia: theory and implications. Laterality 19, 690–704.

Poeppl, T. B., Nitschke, J., Santtila, P., Schecklmann, M., Langguth, B., Greenlee, M. W., et al. (2013). Association between brain structure and phenotypic characteristics in pedophilia. J. Psychiatr. Res. 47, 678–685.

Alanko, K., Salo, B., Mokros, A., and Santtila, P. (2013). Evidence for heritability of adult men’s sexual interest in youth under age 16 from a population-based extended twin design. J. Sex. Med. 10, 1090–1099.

Seto, M. C. (2012). Is pedophilia a sexual orientation? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41, 231-236.

Cantor, J., and Blanchard, R. (2012). White matter volumes in pedophiles, hebephiles, and teleiophiles. Arch. Sex. Behav. 41, 749–752.

Blanchard, R., Kuban, M., Blak, T., Klassen, P., Dicky, R., Cantor, M.,  (2012).  Sexual Attraction to Others: A Comparison of Two Models of Alloerotic Responding in Men, Arch. Sex. Behav.

Neutze, J., Grundmann, D., Scherner, G., Beier, K. (2012), Undetected and Detected Child Sex Abuse and Child Pornography Offenders, Intl J. Law and Psychology (14 March 2012)

Tewksbury, R., Jennings, W., Zgoba, K. (2011), Sex Offenders: Recidivism and Collateral Consequences, Marilyn Moses National Institute of Justice

Schaefer, G. A., Mundt, I. A., Feelgood, S., Hupp, E., Neutze, J., Ahlers, C. J., et al. (2010). Potential and dunkelfeld offenders: two neglected target groups for prevention of child sexual abuse. Int. J. Law Psychiatry 33, 154–163.

Seto, M., Hanson, R., Babchishi, K. (2010), Contact Sexual Offending by Men With Online Sexual Offenses, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 20 Dec. 2010)

Diamond, M., Jozifkova, E., Weiss, P. (2010), Pornography and Sex Crimes in the Czech Republic, Archives of Sexual Behavior, 30 November 2010

Beier, K. M., Ahlers, C. J., Goecker, D., Neutze, J., Mundt, I. A., Hupp, E., et al. (2009a). Can pedophiles be reached for primary prevention of child sexual abuse? First results of the Berlin prevention project dunkelfeld (PPD). J. Forens. Psychiatry Psychol. 20, 851–867.

Beier, K. M., Neutze, J., Mundt, I. A., Ahlers, C. J., Goecker, D., Konrad, A., et al. (2009b). Encouraging self-identified pedophiles and hebephiles to seek professional help: first results of the prevention project dunkelfeld (PPD). Child Abuse Negl. 33, 545–549.

Blanchard, R., Lykins, A. D., Wherrett, D., Kuban, M. E., Cantor, J. M., Blak, T., Dickey, R., & Klassen, P. E. (2009). Pedophilia, hebephilia, and the DSM–V. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38, 335–350.

Cantor, J. M., Kabani, N., Christensen, B. K., Zipursky, R. B., Barbaree, H. E., Dickey, R., Klassen, P. E., Mikulis, D. J., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Richards, B. A., Hanratty, M. K., & Blanchard, R. (2008). Cerebral white matter deficiencies in pedophilic men. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 42, 167–183.

Blanchard, R., Kolla, N. J., Cantor, J. M., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R., Kuban, M. E., & Blak, T. (2007). IQ, handedness, and pedophilia in adult male patients stratified by referral source. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 19, 285–309.

Cantor, J. M., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R., & Blanchard, R. (2007). Physical height in pedophilia and hebephilia. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 19, 395–407.

Seto, M. C., Cantor, J. M., & Blanchard, R. (2006). Child pornography offenses are a valid diagnostic indicator of pedophilia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115, 610–615.

Cantor, J. M., Blanchard, R., Robichaud, L. K., & Christensen, B. K. (2005). Quantitative reanalysis of aggregate data on IQ in sexual offenders. Psychological Bulletin, 131, 555–568.

Cantor, J. M., Klassen, P. E., Dickey, R., Christensen, B. K., Kuban, M. E., Blak, T., Williams, N. S., & Blanchard, R. (2005). Handedness in pedophilia and hebephilia. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 447–459.

Cantor, J. M., Blanchard, R., Christensen, B. K., Dickey, R., Klassen, P. E., Beckstead, A. L., Blak, T., & Kuban, M. E. (2004). Intelligence, memory, and handedness in pedophilia. Neuropsychology, 18, 3–14.

Blanchard, R., Christensen, B. K., Strong, S. M., Cantor, J. M., Kuban, M. E., Klassen, P., Dickey, R., & Blak, T. (2002). Retrospective self-reports of childhood accidents causing unconsciousness in phallometrically diagnosed pedophiles. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31, 511–526.

A Few Key Studies Including Links:

Diamond, Milton (1999) The Effects of Pornography: an international perspective, Pacific Center for Sex and Society

Diamond, M, Jozifkova, E. Weiss, P. (November 2010) Pornography and Sex Crimes in the Czech Republic, Archives of Sexual Behavior

Dreger, Alice (28 February 2011) Do Gay Men Have More Sexual Interest in Children than Straight Men Do?, Psychology Today

Hall, Gordon (1995)Sexual Arousal and Arousability to Pedophilic Stimuli in a Community Sample of Normal Men, Behavior Therapy

Seto, Michael (20 December 2010) Contact Sexual Offending by Men With Online Sexual Offenses, Sexual Abuse

Personal blogs of Virtuous Pedophiles Staff

Ethan Edwards    Celibate Pedophiles

Todd Nickerson   Not a Monster

Ender Wiggin      Ender Wiggin

German-language resources

Weber, M (2015), Fur ein Kinderlachen (book)

Science:

Kastner, Bernd (May 20th 2015) Pädophile offenbaren sich nur sehr selten, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Schneeberger, Ruth (May 22nd 2015) Die Erwachsenenwelt versagt, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Other

Christian Pedophile, for Christian pedophiles

Cepek, Czech site for non-offending pedophiles

Shadows Project, Gallery of personal sketches of celibate pedophiles

Sometimes people who aren't journalists or scientists make some really good points

Bizley's Break (28 December 2013) Compassion for Children, Compassion for Pedophiles, YouTube

Unknown (25 October 2013) A 13 year old's opinion on paedophilia, YouTube

Bizley's Break (18 October 2013) Standing up for Pedophiles, YouTube

Varmint Coyote (5 March 2013) Can You Sympathize?, YouTube

Captain Obvious (27 June 2012) Tarring And Feathering The Innocent, YouTube

Captain Obvious (21 June 2012) The Other Side Of The Coin, YouTube

Captain Obvious (18 June 2012) We Need An Honest Discussion, YouTube

Varmint Coyote (16 June 2012) Anti-Pedophilia Irony, YouTube

Varmint Coyote (8 August 2011) Pedophilia Debate Premises, YouTube

Varmint Coyote (30 July 2011) Why I Care..., YouTube

Lisková, Veronika (2015) Daniel's World, online version

(2014) Among Us, Dutch with English subtitles

BBC Channel 4 (2014) The Paedophile Next Door

Meise, Sebastian & Reider, Thomas (2012) Outing

HBO (2003) Capturing the Friedmans