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\u201cPeople don\u2019t choose what arouses them \u2014 they discover it<\/span>,\u201d said Dr. Fred Berlin, director of the Johns Hopkins Sex and Gender Clinic. \u201cNo one grows up wanting to be a pedophile.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe biological clues attached to pedophilia demonstrate that its roots are prenatal<\/span>,\u201d said James Cantor, director of the Toronto Sexuality Center. \u201cThese are not genetic; they can be traced to specific periods of development<\/span> in the womb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Psychological and environmental factors may also contribute<\/span>, though it is not yet clear what those are or how they interact with developmental conditions<\/span>.<\/p>\n

By contrast, the common presumption that pedophiles were themselves abused as children now has less support.<\/p>\n

New York Times<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This jibes with the recently released gay genes study, and upholds something I speculated here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Some sexual abuse of minors is genuine-article pedophilia or pederasty, which probably is an operating-system switch<\/span>, and I\u2019m inclined to go along with public identification of them (a Scarlet P, so to speak). But some sexual abuse of minors appears to be a crime of opportunity …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m about ready to begin summarizing the recent study and attempting to translate it into accessible English, so I’ll be discussing these things a lot over the next few days. But the data point toward these big takeaways:<\/p>\n