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Study To Be Published In Sexual Abuse Journal
Alleges Pedophilia Influenced In Womb
November 2, 2007 - Gay researcher Dr. James Cantor* at the Toronto-based Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAHM) will publish a report in the December issue of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment claiming a link between height and pedophilic attractions in men. (NARTH will publish an analysis of this study once it is available.)
Cantor studied 1,200 men who were assessed for sexual disorders between 1995 and 2006. He found that pedophiles were 2 centimeters than the average Canadian man who stands 178 centimeters (5' 10").
According to Cantor, "It's about double the effect that would happen if the mother smokes while she's pregnant."
He also noted: "Pedophiles are (also) about three times more likely to be left-handed and that's something that really only happens with brain organization before birth. ... What's important about this entire branch of research is that it demonstrates pretty conclusively that it is indeed about how the body grows and how the brain develops. There are still a great many people who believe that this is purely learned, or (a psychological reaction to something that happened in childhood."
Pedophilia expert Fred Berlin, founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorder Clinic in Baltimore says the study leaves room for doubt. He noted that the study did not look at the height of parents, so these men may have just had shorter mothers and father. A shorter stature may also have resulted in these men being teased in school and developing a psychological attraction to younger children. (Source: The Star, Joseph Hall, Health Reporter, October 23, 2007)
Research On Fraternal Birth Order Effect
Dr. Cantor's 2002 research on the fraternal birth order effect and homosexuality gained worldwide notoriety. He was a co-author of a birth order effect study published with Dr. Ray Blanchard at CAMH.
NARTH Scientific Advisory Committee member Dr. Neil Whitehead has written extensively on the fraternal birth order effect. Writing in "Nearly Straight Men And The Fraternal Birth Order Effect," Whitehead writes:
The FBO effect has been found in a few careful representative samples in the general community, so it appeared to be a robust finding. However, as reported in the last NARTH Bulletin, a Danish study (Frisch and Hviid, 2006) could not find the FBO effect in a sample of 2 million Danes. That might be the result of the fact that their criterion of SSA was formalized (homosexual) marriage, which might represent an atypical class of SSA men. But the McConaghy paper looked not at the 2% of SSA people with an OSA tinge, but at "nearly straights"--OSA people with an SSA tinge.
*Dr. Cantor serves on the board of directors of Archives of Sexual Behavior, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, and manages the NewPsychList, an internet discussion group for more than 3,000 recent and soon-to-be doctors in psychology.
Additional Reading:
Do Mothers Create Gay Sons In The Womb?;
Pedophiles Argue Their Case in the Journal of Homosexuality;
The APA's and the Pedophilia Controversy;
Gay-Affirming Psychologists Propose Redefining Child Sexual Abuse;
THE DENIAL OF CHILD ABUSE: The Rind, et al. Controversy.
Updated: 8 February 2008
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