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Had "pedophilia" ''not'' become medicalized, then "pedophilia" would not be "pathological," and BoyLovers would not be "sick".
Had "pedophilia" ''not'' become medicalized, then "pedophilia" would not be "pathological," and BoyLovers would not be "sick".


If only Richard von Krafft-Ebing had never been born, the world today be be a different (and far better!) place...
If only Richard von Krafft-Ebing had never been born, perhaps the world today would be a different (and far better!) place...
 
==See also==
==See also==
*[[Psychopathia Sexualis]]
*[[Psychopathia Sexualis]]

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Medicalization refers to the creation of a medical category for a human condition not previously considered to be a condition requiring medical treatment.

Medicalization and BoyLovers

When The German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing first introduced the concept of pedophilia in his Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study) in the early 20th century, pederastic (and other adult-child sexual activities) first became "medicalized," in other words, subject to medical diagnosis and treatment.

Von Krafft-Ebing based the theories he expressed in his book on very little actual clinical data - a handful of reported "clinical treatments" by other psychiatrists of a few (so-called) "sexually deranged persons". He "invented" the concept of what he called "paedophilia erotica", which was later shortened in English to "paedophilia" (American spelling: pedophilia).

Had "pedophilia" not become medicalized, then "pedophilia" would not be "pathological," and BoyLovers would not be "sick".

If only Richard von Krafft-Ebing had never been born, perhaps the world today would be a different (and far better!) place...

See also

External Links

  • Medicalization at Wikipedia.
  • Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study), available at archive.org
https://archive.org/details/psychopathiasexu00krafuoft
  • Extract of the above NOTE:site is now defunct, but I am searching for another source.
http://www.freewebtown.com/transres/krafftebing/