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Accepting Sexual Interest in Children as Unchangeable: One Claim Fits for All? Comments on Grundmann, Krupp, Scherner, Amelung, and Beier’s (2016) “Stability of Self-Reported Arousal to Sexual Fantasies Involving Children in a Clinical Sample of Pedophiles and Hebephiles”

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Tozdan, S., Briken, P. Accepting Sexual Interest in Children as Unchangeable: One Claim Fits for All? Comments on Grundmann, Krupp, Scherner, Amelung, and Beier’s (2016) “Stability of Self-Reported Arousal to Sexual Fantasies Involving Children in a Clinical Sample of Pedophiles and Hebephiles”. Arch Sex Behav 46, 331–333 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-016-0813-4

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