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The Lability of Pedophilic Interests as Measured by Phallometry

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  1. Preferably, these would be men who admitted pedophilia (rather than simply admitting being child molesters, because many child molesters do not have a pedophilic interest) or men who denied pedophilia but had very strong evidence of pedophilia from their criminal history (e.g., Blanchard, Klassen, Dickey, Kuban, & Blak, 2001).

  2. There is another issue with the z-scores presented in Müller et al. (2014). Figure 2 shows the mean z-scores for child and adult stimuli for the two assessments for the patients who changed from pedophilic to non-pedophilic. Despite the fact that the means were based on all stimulus categories used to calculate z-scores, all means were at zero or positive, something that is not mathematically possible. Figure 3, for the non-changers, correctly displayed both negative and positive means.

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Lalumière, M.L. The Lability of Pedophilic Interests as Measured by Phallometry. Arch Sex Behav 44, 255–258 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0340-0

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