Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (32 page)

a chimp raised
: Maurice Temerlin,
Lucy: Growing Up Human
(Palo Alto, Calif.: Science and Behavior Books, 1975).

The psychologist James Cantor
: Cantor, Blanchard, and Barbaree, “Sexual Disorders.”

Freund argued
: Kurt Freund, “Courtship Disorder: Is This Hypothesis Valid?,”
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
528, no. 1 (1988): 172–82.

“
phase of eye-talk
”: John Money, “Paraphilias: Phenomenology and Classification,”
American Journal of Psychotherapy
38, no. 2 (1984): 174.

“
push its way onto
”: Ibid.

purchase clothes
: Jennifer J. Argo, Darren W. Dahl, and Andrea C. Morales, “Positive Consumer Contagion: Responses to Attractive Others in a Retail Context,”
Journal of Marketing Research
45, no. 6 (2008): 690–701.

The psychotherapist
: Amy Marsh, “Love Among the Objectum Sexuals,”
Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality
13 (2010),
www.ejhs.org/volume13/ObjSexuals.htm
.

for a documentary
: BBC,
Married to the Eiffel Tower
(Blink Films, 2008),
www.youtube.com/watch?v=POTA5aZxbQA
.

“
Well, Libby is always
”: Marsh, “Love Among the Objectum Sexuals.”

“
I’m kind of a heavyset
”: Ibid.

“
I press a thousand
”: Arthur Scherr, “Voltaire’s ‘Candide’: A Tale of Women’s Equality,”
Midwest Quarterly
34, no. 3 (1993),
www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-142613_ITM
.

“
Whenever a lovely
”: Stekel,
Sexual Aberrations
, 171.

“
He liked especially
”: Ibid., 170.

“
No power in the world
”: Ibid.

“
possess[ing] all of the
”: Ibid., 171.

a socially awkward
: Brian E. McGuire, George L. Choon, Parva Nayer, and Julia Sanders, “An Unusual Paraphilia: Case Report of Oral Partialism,”
Sexual and Marital Therapy
13, no. 2 (1998): 207–10.

“
The patient’s primary
”: Ibid., 208.

“
Once a man’s sexual
”: Roy F. Baumeister, “Gender Differences in Erotic Plasticity: The Female Sex Drive as Socially Flexible and Responsive,”
Psychological Bulletin
126, no. 3 (2000): 348.

Chivers has found
: Meredith L. Chivers, “A Brief Review and Discussion of Sex Differences in the Specificity of Sexual Arousal,”
Sexual and Relationship Therapy
20, no. 4 (2005): 377–90.

“
The costs of non-responding
”: Samantha J. Dawson, Kelly D. Suschinsky, and Martin L. Lalumière, “Habituation of Sexual Responses in Men and Women: A Test of the Preparation Hypothesis of Women’s Genital Responses,”
Journal of Sexual Medicine
,
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23320579
.

mother-child relationship
: Henry Massie and Nathan Szajnberg, “The Ontogeny of a Sexual Fetish from Birth to Age 30 and Memory Processes: A Research Case Report from a Prospective Longitudinal Study,”
International Journal of Psychoanalysis
78 (1997): 755–71.

“
The only quirk
”: Ibid., 760.

“
This fantasy became
”: Thomas N. Wise and Ram Chandran Kalyanam, “Amputee Fetishism and Genital Mutilation: Case Report and Literature Review,”
Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
26, no. 4 (2000): 340.

“
Like a cluster
”: Money, “Paraphilias,” 165.

“
[Paraphilias] are not
”: Ibid., 175.

The Zeigarnik effect
: Robert L. Munroe and Mary Gauvain, “Why the Paraphilias? Domesticating Strange Sex,”
Cross-Cultural Research
35, no. 1 (2001): 44–64.

“
We no longer burn
”: Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, and Gebhard,
Concepts of Normality and Abnormality in Sexual Behavior
, 21.

5. IT’S SUBJECTIVE, MY DEAR

“
While we are dealing here
”: Pauline Réage,
Story of O
(1954; New York: Ballantine Books, 1973), xxix.

Around 11 percent
: Alan W. Shindel and Charles A. Moser, “Why Are the Paraphilias Mental Disorders?,”
Journal of Sexual Medicine
8, no. 3 (2011): 927–29.

Before the more recent case
: Chris Francescani, “New York City ‘Cannibal Cop’ Convicted of Plot to Kidnap Women,” Reuters, March 12, 2013.
www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/12/us-usa-crime-cannibal-idUSBRE92B0OX20130312
.

“
Looking for a well-built
”: Luke Harding, “Victim of Cannibal Agreed to Be Eaten,”
Guardian
, December 3, 2003,
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/dec/04/germany.lukeharding
.

The man was
: E. A. Gutheil, “A Rare Case of Sadomasochism,”
American Journal of Psychotherapy
1, no. 1 (1947): 88.

“
But this type
”: Ibid.

Rind and his colleagues
: Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch, and Robert Bauserman, “A Meta-analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples,”
Psychological Bulletin
124, no. 1 (1998): 22–53.

radio talk-show
: Laura Schlessinger,
The Dr. Laura Program
, Premiere Radio Networks, March 23, 1999.

incident without precedent
: Scott O. Lilienfeld, “When Worlds Collide: Social Science, Politics, and the Rind et al. (1998) Child Sexual Abuse Meta-analysis,”
American Psychologist
57, no. 3 (2002): 176–88.

researchers still questioning
: Anna Salter,
Predators: Who They Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and Our Children
(New York: Basic Books, 2003).

in 2006, the psychologist
: Heather Ulrich, Mickey Randolph, and Shawn Acheson, “Child Sexual Abuse: A Replication of the Meta-analytic Examination of Childhood Sexual Abuse by Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman 1998,”
Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
4, no. 2 (2005–2006): 47–51.

no hard-and-fast threshold
: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Suparna Choudhury, “Development of the Adolescent Brain: Implications for Executive Function and Social Cognition,”
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
47, nos. 3–4 (2006): 296–312.

first such age-restricting
: Stephen Robertson, “Age of Consent Laws,”
http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/teaching-modules/230
.

“
More than 800 years
”: Ibid.

“
He was depressed
”: Ratnin Dewaraja, “Formicophilia, an Unusual Paraphilia, Treated with Counseling and Behavior Therapy,”
American Journal of Psychotherapy
41, no. 4 (1987): 594.

“
He was [now] engaging
”: Ibid., 596.

around 3 percent
: Niklas Långström and J. Kenneth Zucker, “Transvestic Fetishism in the General Population,”
Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
31, no. 2 (2005): 87–95.

one big difference
: Anne A. Lawrence, “Becoming What We Love: Autogynephilic Transsexualism Conceptualized as an Expression of Romantic Love,”
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
50, no. 4 (2007): 506–20.

controversy over
: Ray Blanchard, “The Concept of Autogynephilia and the Typology of Male Gender Dysphoria,”
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
177, no. 10 (1989): 616–23.

Blanchard didn’t just
: Ray Blanchard, I. G. Racansky, and Betty W. Steiner, “Phallometric Detection of Fetishistic Arousal in Heterosexual Male Cross-Dressers,”
Journal of Sex Research
22, no. 4 (1986): 452–62.

“
sex life manifested
”: Anonymous, Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, Indiana University.

sneeze fetishist from London
: Michael B. King, “Sneezing as a Fetishistic Stimulus,”
Sexual and Marital Therapy
5, no. 1 (1990): 69–72.

“
Much of his intense
”: Ibid., 69.

6. A SUITABLE AGE

“
He was about 16
”: Testimony of Oscar Wilde in His Libel Trial,
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/Wildelibelowfact.html
.

Performing a fifteen-year content
: Melanie-Angela Neuilly and Kristen Zgoba, “Assessing the Possibility of a Pedophilia Panic and Contagion Effect Between France and the United States,”
Victims and Offenders
1, no. 3 (2006): 225–54.

“
pre-homosexual
”: J. Michael Bailey and Kenneth J. Zucker, “Childhood Sex-Typed Behavior and Sexual Orientation: A Conceptual Analysis and Quantitative Review,”
Developmental Psychology
31, no. 1 (1995): 43–55.

Complicating matters even more
: Michael C. Seto, R. Karl Hanson, and Kelly M. Babchishin, “Contact Sexual Offending by Men with Online Sexual Offenses,”
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
23, no. 1 (2011): 124–45.

the more controversial
: Milton Diamond, Eva Jozifkova, and Petr Weiss, “Pornography and Sex Crimes in the Czech Republic,”
Archives of Sexual Behavior
40, no. 5 (2011): 1037–43.

statistics in Japan
: Milton Diamond and A. Uchiyama, “Pornography, Rape, and Sex Crimes in Japan,”
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
22, no. 1 (1999): 1–22.

and Denmark
: Berl Kutchinsky, “The Effect of Easy Availability of Pornography on the Incidence of Sex Crimes: The Danish Experience,”
Journal of Social Issues
29, no. 3 (1973): 163–81.

“
We do not approve
”: Diamond, Jozifkova, and Weiss, “Pornography and Sex Crimes in the Czech Republic,” 1042.

“
When the monster
”: Michel Foucault,
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975
(New York: Picador, 2003), 56.

Cantor’s big scoop
: James M. Cantor et al., “Cerebral White Matter Deficiencies in Pedophilic Men,”
Journal of Psychiatric Research
42, no. 3 (2008): 167–83.

“The ‘white matter’ is the shorthand”: Cord Jefferson, “Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children,”
Gawker
, September 7, 2012,
http://gawker.com/5941037
.

thirteen hundred anonymous men
: Pekka Santtil et al., “Childhood Sexual Interactions with Other Children Are Associated with Lower Preferred Age of Sexual Partners Including Sexual Interest in Children in Adulthood,”
Psychiatry Research
175, no. 1 (2010): 154–59.

There
are
data showing
: John A. Hunter, Aurelio Jose Figueredo, and Neil M. Malamuth, “Developmental Pathways into Social and Sexual Deviance,”
Journal of Family Violence
25, no. 2 (2010): 141–48.

Seto describes several
: Michael C. Seto,
Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention
(Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 2007).

less than 1 percent
: Michael Seto, personal communication, November 18, 2012.

Czech military approached
: “Remembering Kurt Freund,”
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Forum
18, no. 4 (Fall 2006),
http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/atsa/issues/2006-09-15/2.html
.

lived through the Holocaust
: Ibid.

the “Walking Nudes” version of the test
: Kurt Freund and Robin J. Watson, “Assessment of the Sensitivity and Specificity of a Phallometric Test: An Update of Phallometric Diagnosis of Pedophilia,”
Psychological Assessment: A Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
3, no. 2 (1991): 254–60.

crippled by excruciating pain
: “Remembering Kurt Freund.”

“
A certain degree of relaxation
”: Kurt Freund, “A Laboratory Method for Diagnosing Predominance of Homo- or Hetero-Erotic Interest in the Male,”
Behaviour Research and Therapy
1, no. 1 (1963): 90.

hefty dose of Viagra
: Nathan J. Kolla et al., “Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Sildenafil in Phallometric Testing,”
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
38, no. 4 (2010): 502–11.

“
light of my life
”: Vladimir Nabokov,
Lolita
(1955; New York: Vintage International, 1997), 9.

“
Humbert was perfectly
”: Ibid., 20.

not uncommon for
: Ray Blanchard et al., “Absolute Versus Relative Ascertainment of Pedophilia in Men,”
Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
21, no. 4 (2009): 431–41.

age of menarche
: Sarah E. Anderson and Aviva Must, “Interpreting the Continued Decline in the Average Age at Menarche: Results from Two Nationally Representative Surveys of U.S. Girls Studied 10 Years Apart,”
Journal of Pediatrics
147, no. 6 (2005): 753–60.

eponymous British pediatrician
: James M. Tanner,
Foetus into Man: Physical Growth from Conception to Maturity
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978).

“
Testicular volume between
”: Jay R. Feierman, “Pedophilia (Part I): Its Relationship to the Homosexualities and the Roman Catholic Church,”
Antonianum
85, no. 3 (2010): 467.

90 percent of the victims
: Ibid.

Plato famously claimed
: David West,
Reason and Sexuality in Western Thought
(New York: Polity, 2005).