Scientists on Pedophilia, Child Love and Child Sexuality

What follows is a list of scientific or similar literature dealing with subjects of pedophilia, child-love, childhood sexuality or related subjects. The list has been constructed with the idea of serving as a source for reference articles for pedophilia-friendly articles. As such, this overview is not balanced, but biased towards more or less positive articles. On the other hand, it certainly does not contain only those either. You can find articles in two ways: from the pages themselves, which are divided by subject, or from the alphabetical index of authors. These pages were created by Desire. He would be happy if you mailed him with references for other articles that could be added here or extra information on ones that are already there.

Subjects

The articles have been divided among subjects. Some articles fitted in with more than one subject; it is then found under just one of them. If an article cannot be found under the subject you would regard most likely, perhaps you can find where it is through the author index.

Pedophilia and pedophiles

Pedophilia - general
Articles, more often books, that discuss pedophilia in all or many aspects. General works on pedophilia.
The pedophile
What are pedophiles like, what do they do, what do they feel?
The pedophilic relationship
What are the relationships between pedophiles and children like?
The cause of pedophilia
Articles that try to find an answer to the question of what causes pedophilia.
Pedophile emancipation
Pedophile groups and pedophile emancipation - descriptions, history, opinions

Child sexuality

Child Sexuality (part 1)
Articles on the sexual development of the child and overview articles on child sexuality.
Child Sexuality (part 2)
Articles giving descriptions of the amount of sexual behaviour of children, usually through interviews with parents or other caretakers.
Child Sexuality (part 3)
Special issues within child sexuality, such as masturbation, sexual language and sex games.
Children's knowledge
What do children know (and think) of sexuality.
Adolescent sexuality
The sexuality specific of pubescent and post-pubescent children and adolescents.
Abnormal child sexuality
Problematic or otherwise abnormal sexual development of children.
Gender distrophy
Children who feel they are of the other gender, or would like to be such.
Incest
Articles on the subject of incest - in particular sibling incest and examples that it's not always bad.

Dealing with child sexuality

Bringing up children
How should we deal with child sexuality, and how should we bring up children so they grow into sexually capable adults?
Sexual education
Sexual education - what is given, what is its effect, and how can it be improved?
Child liberation
The fight for child liberation, and sexuality as a subject within this fight.

Child-adult sexual contacts

Effects of intergenerational sexual contacts (part 1)
What is the effect on a child if he or she has one or more sexual encounters with an adult? Part 1: statistical studies.
Effects of intergenerational sexual contacts (part 2)
Part 2: case histories and theoretical articles.
Abuse
Sexual abuse of children is, unfortunately, quite common. Of the large range of literature on child sexual abuse, only little is given here.
Child-child sexual abuse
Much in discussion lately: Children who sexually abuse other children. How large is the problem, is it a problem at all, and what can we do about it? (put here because of its connection with the previous section)
Ethics
The ethics of pedophilia and intergenerational sexuality. Also contains articles discussing whether and to what extent children are able to consent to sexual contacts with adults.

Pedophilia in society

Population pedophilia
About pedophilic feelings among non-pedophiles.
The image of pedophilia
The image of pedophilia, child sexuality and child sexual abuse in the media and the general population.
The witch-hunt
According to many, there is or has been a witch-hunt on the subject of sexual abuse of children. Is there such a witch-hunt, how bad is it, what are its causes, and what are its consequences?
False accusations
False accusations of sexual abuse - do they exist, how common are they, what harm do they do, and what can we do to distinguish true and false accusations?

History

History
The history of pedophilia and child sexuality. Works on specific periods are included only when not in the categories below.
Ancient history
The history of the Greeks, the Romans and other ancient peoples.
Recent history
The history of the 20th century (and beyond)
Cultural anthropology
Attitudes towards sexuality, child sexuality and adult-child sexual contacts differ throughout the world.
Biography
Biographies of famous people with pedophile inclinations.

Art

Art
Pedophilia and child sexuality and sensuality as a subject in (in particular visual) art, and a subject for artists.
Literature
Pedophilia and pedophiles in literature.

Science

Meta-science
What problems exist in the research of pedophilia and child sexuality, and how does one deal with them?
Reaction to the Rind c.s. article
Rind, Bauserman and Tromovitch wrote a much criticized article about the effect of so-called Child Sexual Abuse (to be found in the section 'effect1'). In here can be found articles reacting to this paper - some attacking or defending it, others describing what had been going on or drawing conclusions about the relationship between science and politics.
Bibliography
Further bibliographies on these and related subjects.

Various subjects

Pedophilia and the law
Discusses how the justice system handles adult-child sexuality, and how it should handle it, whether and how much the judicial process is harming the victim in child sexual abuse cases, and several more subjects where pedophilia meets the law.
Recidivism
What is the recidivism rate of convicted 'child molesters', what makes a difference for it and what can we do about it?
Therapy
Therapy for pedophiles: is it possible, what should be its goals, and what are the best methods?
Pornography
The effect of porn in general and child porn in particular, what child porn is like, and how it is used.
Prostitution
On child prostitution.
Historical work
Works that are interesting more from the point of view of their role in the history of science or general history.
Various subjects
Works that belong in this bibliography, but could not be placed under any of the above categories.
Unknown
Works which probably should be in one of the above categories, but of which I know to little to know in which one.

Author Index

Here you can find a list of all authors that are in the bibliography, with the books and articles that are included. After each work stands a short code which shows in which category an article has been placed. Note that within the categories, the articles are sorted by alphabetical order of the last name of the first author, while in the author index all articles have been mentioned under each of the authors.

Texts with the entries

Each article has some text added that shows its contents. Be warned that this text is sometimes in German or Dutch rather than English. Where available, I have tried to use the abstract or summary of the article, sometimes combined with other sources. If another source is used, it is usually given. The most important such sources are:

If anyone has any additions for this page, they can contact me at gldesire@hotmail.com.

Desire