“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 Chi
ldren: 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).
“If I were to see”: John Money, interview, Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia 2, no. 3 (1991): 5.
traveling warrior societies: Randolph Trumbach, “Homosexual Behavior and Western Culture in the 18th Century,” Journal of Social History 11, no. 1 (1977): 1–33.
Today’s ultraconservative: Ibid.
Lesbians aren’t without: Judith Gay, “‘Mummies and Babies’ and Friends and Lovers in Lesotho,” Journal of Homosexuality 11, nos. 3–4 (1986): 97–116.
held indefinitely: Karen Franklin, “The Public Policy Implications of ‘Hebephilia’: A Response to Blanchard et al. (2008),” Archives of Sexual Behavior 38, no. 3 (2009): 319–20.
the psychiatrist: Jerome C. Wakefield, “Evolutionary Versus Prototype Analyses of the Concept of Disorder,” Journal of Abnormal Psychology 108, no. 3 (1999): 374–99.
such as “gender identity disorder”: Eric Cameron, “APA to Remove ‘Gender Identity Disorder’ from DSM-V,” Human Rights Campaign Blog, December 4, 2012, www.hrc.org/blog/entry/apa-to-remove-gender-identity-disorder-from-dsm-5.
“normal form of human”: Barry S. Anton, “Proceedings of the American Psychological Association for the Legislative Year 2009: Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Council of Representatives and Minutes of the Meetings of the Board of Directors,” American Psychologist 65, no. 5 (2010): 385–475.
bear fewer offspring: Raymond Hayes and Ray Blanchard, “Anthropological Data Regarding the Adaptiveness of Hebephilia,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 41, no. 4 (2012): 745–47.
the risk of cuckoldry: Todd K. Shackelford and Aaron T. Goetz, “Adaptation to Sperm Competition in Humans,” Current Directions in Psychological Science 16, no. 1 (2007): 47–50.
it could help to explain: Katarina Alanko et al., “Evidence for Heritability of Adult Men’s Sexual Interest in Youth Under Age 16 from a Population-Based Extended Twin Design,” Journal of Sexual Medicine (In Press).
forensic psychologist Karen Franklin: Karen Franklin, “Why the Rush to Create Dubious New Sexual Disorders?,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 38, no. 4 (2010): 819–20.
Green titled one: Richard Green, “Sexual Preference for 14-Year-Olds as a Mental Disorder: You Can’t Be Serious!!,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 39, no. 3 (2010): 585–86.
“Little girls are hopeless”: Thomas J. Holt, Kristie R. Blevins, and Natasha Burkert, “Considering the Pedophile Subculture Online,” Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment 22, no. 1 (2010): 11.
“deliberately manipulat[ing]”: Brook Barnes, “A Topless Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise,” New York Times, April 28, 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28hannah.html?_r=0.
“I’m sorry that my portrait”: “Annie Leibovitz: ‘Miley Cyrus Photos Were Misinterpreted,’” Hollywood.com, April 28, 2008, www.hollywood.com/news/celebrities/5226536/annie-leibovitz-miley-cyrus-photos-were-misinterpreted.
Her famous book: Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971).
visual meandering: Germaine Greer, The Beautiful Boy (New York: Rizzoli, 2003).
“full of pictures”: Emma Young, “Sticks and Stones May Break Bones but Not Stereotypes,” Sydney Morning Herald, October 27, 2003, www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/26/1067103267287.html?from=storyrhs.
“I know that the only”: Germaine Greer, “Country Notebook: Beautiful Boys Cause Bedlam,” Telegraph, December 7, 2002. www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/3307166/Country-notebook-beautiful-boys-cause-bedlam.html.
“absolutely revolting”: Brian Simpson, “Sexualizing the Child: The Strange Case of Bill Henson, His ‘Absolutely Revolting’ Images, and the Law of Childhood Innocence,” Sexualities 14, no. 3 (2011): 290–311.
a philistine: Ibid.
“at best inconvenient”: Rachel Olding, “Henson: Photo Furore Was ‘Inconvenient at Best,’” Sydney Morning Herald, March 8, 2011, www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/henson-photo-furore-was-inconvenient-at-best-20110307-1blbh.html.
7. LIFE LESSONS FOR THE LEWD AND LASCIVIOUS
“Indeed, of all”: Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, trans. Meredith Weatherby (1949; New York: New Directions, 1958), 72.
which set sail: Thomas W. Higginson, Life of Francis Higginson, First Minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1891).
“five beastly Sodomiticall”: Robert F. Oaks, “‘Things Fearful to Name’: Sodomy and Buggery in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Journal of Social History 12, no. 2 (1978).
testicles would be replaced: Gregorio Marañón, The Evolution of Sex and Intersexual Conditions (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1932).
busy grafting monkey: Ibid.
“Posture, demeanor”: Charles Samson Féré, Scientific and Esoteric Studies in Sexual Degeneration in Mankind and in Animals, trans. Ulrich van der Horst (1899; New York: Falstaff Press, 1932), 145.
“there have been noticed”: Ibid.
“A doctor had [dealt with]”: Ibid.
“inability to learn”: Ibid.
“The sight which [shocks]”: Ibid., 225.
“It should be remembered”: Ibid., 146.
species of primate: Daniel J. Povinelli, Jesse M. Bering, and Steve Giambrone, “Toward a Science of Other Minds: Escaping the Argument by Analogy,” Cognitive Science 24, no. 3 (2000): 509–41.
researchers who coined: David Premack and Guy Woodruff, “Does the Chimpanzee Have a Theory of Mind?,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1, no. 4 (1978): 515–26.
it usually is with science: Kurt Gray et al., “More Than a Body: Mind Perception and the Nature of Objectification,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 101, no. 6 (2011): 1207–20.
“The idea that [nudity]”: Ibid., 1209.
“I saw him watching”: Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber, and Other Stories (1979; New York: Penguin Books, 1993), 11.
“There are some eyes”: Ibid., 86.
In a 1979 study: Donald L. Mosher and Kevin E. O’Grady, “Homosexual Threat, Negative Attitudes Toward Masturbation, Sex Guilt, and Males’ Sexual and Affective Reactions to Explicit Sexual Films,” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 47, no. 5 (1979): 860.
Our brains systematically collect: Francis T. McAndrew and Megan A. Milenkovic, “Of Tabloids and Family Secrets: The Evolutionary Psychology of Gossip,” Journal of Applied Social Psychology 32, no. 5 (2006): 1064–82.
“devil of a torment”: Boots [pseud.], “The Feelings of a Fetishist,” Psychiatric Quarterly 10 (1957): 742–58.
“It is possible”: Ibid., 744.
“Normal men cannot”: Ibid., 748.
“This friend is one”: Ibid.
“Knowing that these”: Ibid., 752.
“It was the best of times”: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859; Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 1999), 1.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
When I first set out to write “a lighthearted book about sexual deviance,” most people thought I was crazy. And many, I’m sure, still do after reading it. But for seeing the good in this project from its very inception, I’d like to thank my agent, Peter Tallack. I’d been writing a lot about human sexuality for Scientific American, and I’d been mulling over the odder social realities of being gay for most of my life, but the idea for Perv only crystallized while I was playing tourist in Europe one sweaty summer a few years ago. Juan and I were on a public bus that had quickly become standing room only (and all the more aromatic for it). As the bus bounded down a bumpy road to Cinque Terre, I noticed a local man around sixty or so in a cream-colored nylon suit. He was leaking from every pore (wearing such an outfit on a crowded bus in the Italian Riviera in July would have that effect), and I watched him stealing cautious glances at the chest of a voluble, and quite oblivious, teenage girl in a bikini. She looked to be about fourteen, fifteen … it was hard to tell, but certainly not the age of female he should be eyeing like that. There was nothing else to it: just a perspiring Italian pensioner staring at a pretty young girl with lust in his eyes. But it got me thinking about what scientists might be missing about our species’s hidden sexual minds. So that night I hammered out a quick e-mail to Peter about the possibility of writing a book on the psychology of people’s unspoken (or rather, unspeakable) desires. He liked the idea, and presto … here’s Perv.
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