Many professional efforts to support us are based on the idea of preventing crimes. Do they actually work?

We don't know [how effective prevention programmes are] for several reasons.

(1) because there are only very small populations of pedophiles that seek out or receive treatment before or instead of an offence.

(2) It's impossible to measure who *would have* offended without intervention in individual cases.

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(3) It's only recently that there have been systemic attempts to reach out and offer support to pedophilic individuals who have not offended, or who are offending but have not yet been caught (now there are @StopSO_UK
, @DontOffendIndia
, @StopItNowUK
, @B4U_ACT
+ more.

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(4) In the case of the already-offending group there are a whole set of issues around mandatory reporting or ethical disclosure for professionals, for which there are different rules in different countries.

(5) Most therapy takes place with individual practitioners

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who do not collate or harmonise their approaches to this taboo issue, and would feel a strong need to be cautious in how they would discuss it in the public sphere, because of taboos.

(6) Many of those just discovering they are pedophiles and best placed to benefit

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from early intervention are themselves still legally children, which means if they reach out their parents will be told, their school might break confidentiality and generally have no clear idea or policies on how to deal with a disclosure of attraction toward minors.

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There are other issues too, but all of these align to create a situation where support is too seldom asked for, offered, publicised or comes with an assurance of expertise UNLESS a person already offended (and even then it's at best patchy).

MAPs hope this can change. ::

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interview: claire, mother of a map

the iwf: young teens

how can you want to keep an attraction you can never act on?

global prevention project

Candice and Claire talk about parents and partners of MAPs needing support and what can be done so that they can get the support they need in safe and compassionate way.

ethan edwards

2 of 4. Looking at the issue of self-made images of teens in the light of IWF statements.

ethan edwards

Given that we are for moral reasons totally unable to express our sexuality with children, our right to private sexual fantasy would seem imore important.

Candice and Claire talk about parents and partners of MAPs needing support and what can be done so that they can get the support they need in safe and compassionate way.

2 of 4. Looking at the issue of self-made images of teens in the light of IWF statements.

Given that we are for moral reasons totally unable to express our sexuality with children, our right to private sexual fantasy would seem imore important.