Sex Researcher Turned Journalist Challenges Sexual Dogmas
Sexologist Debra Soh’s work challenges sexual dogmas and political correctness.
by Michael Aaron.
Brain imaging studies I have worked on have shown that pedophilia is hard-wired and cannot be changed.
Debra Soh
Debra holds a Ph.D. in sexual neuroscience from York University and was awarded the Provost Dissertation Scholarship for her fMRI research on paraphilias and hypersexuality.
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I believe sex dolls could be useful in the context of harm reduction, but we’d need the data to confirm this. If studies in the future did find that child-like sex dolls helped to prevent pedophilic men from offending against children, I think the next logical step would be to include them in therapeutic interventions. As uncomfortable as the idea might make some people, if we are concerned about child safety, we should follow what the research tells us and advocate for prevention of abuse. Brain imaging studies I have worked on have shown that pedophilia is hard-wired and cannot be changed.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26494360
Previous comparison using voxel-based morphometry (VBM)of MR images from a large sample of pedophiles and controls revealed group differences in white matter. The present study therefore sought to verify and characterize white matter involvement using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which better captures the microstructure of white matter than does VBM. Pedophilics ex offenders (n=24) were compared with healthy, age-matched controls with no criminal record and no indication of pedophilia (n=32).
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These results confirm that pedophilia is characterized by neuroanatomical differences in white matter microstructure, over and above any neural characteristics attributable to psychopathy and childhood adversity.