I want
to write about a pedophile priest and get inside his head. I want to find a way to make him understandable,
because he is who he is, and from somewhere in his unusual life came these
compulsions.
“There
is no evidence that a man can change from pedophilic to non-pedophilic (or vice
versa),” says clinical psychologist James Cantor, the editor in chief of
“Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment,” in an email. “A person can
be taught tools to help him deal with his sexual interests, and a person’s sex
drive can sometimes be suppressed, such as with testosterone-blocking
medications. The overall evidence, however, is that changing from pedophilic to
non-pedophilic is as impossible as changing a gay man to a straight man.” He
adds: “The kind and scale of differences that we see on MRIs of pedophilic men
are not the kind or scale that are known to change with training, or psychotherapy
or other kinds of intervention.”
Controversial
thoughts
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