Define child molestation. Describe the two categories of child molesters as identified by A. Nicholas Groth
What will be an ideal response?
Child molestation is the sexual abuse of a child by an adult. Sexual abuse includes not only sexual intercourse (genital or anal) but also oral-genital contact, fondling, and behaviors such as exposing oneself to a child and photographing or viewing a child for the molester's erotic pleasure. Child molestation is generally regarded as one of the most despicable sexual offenses in our society. The public fears-rightly-that this type of sexual abuse will destroy the innocence of the child and may lead to severe psychological trauma, interrupting the child's (and subsequent adult's) normal sexual development.
A. Nicholas Groth has identified two categories of child molesters: fixated and regressed. A fixated child molester's primary sexual object choice is children; he would always prefer a child as a sexual partner over an adult. These men are also known as pedophiles. Pedophilia is a sexual disorder characterized by recurrent sexual fantasies and urges or behaviors involving sexual activity with children. A regressed child molester is a person whose usual sexual interest is in adult partners, but when faced with massive stress, he "regresses" emotionally (becomes a psychologically younger person) and acts out sexually toward children to meet his needs. Regressed child molesters generally seek female children as partners; fixated molesters are generally interested in male children.?
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