UNITED STATES
The Raw Story
By Travis Gettys
Friday, November 1, 2013
The American Psychiatric Association issued a correction Thursday to its newly published Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
The fifth edition of the DSM listed “pedophilia” as “pedophilic disorder” to maintain consistency with the chapter’s other disorder listings, according to the correction.
The medical association said sexual orientation is not used in the diagnostic criteria for pedophilic disorder, or the long-term sexual interest of adults to children younger than 13 years old.
The APA considers pedophilic disorder to be a paraphilia, a sexual interest dependent on fantasies about atypical or extreme sexual behavior.
The diagnostic criteria for the disorder remain the same, the APA said, and subsequent printings and the electronic version of the DSM-5 would refer to the disorder as a paraphilia, not sexual orientation
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