Is the brain of someone who exhibits
pedophilic behaviors different from the brains of those who do not? Results of
a research project let by Jorge Ponseti at the University of Kiel in Germany, was
recently published in the scientific journal Biology Letters. Typically,
seeing the faces of children elicit feelings of caregiving from both males and
females. Ponseti’s studies showed that this trend appears to be skewed in the
brains of pedophiles. Their brains appear to be
“abnormally tuned” to find young children sexually attractive, children’s
faces eliciting sexual feelings as opposed to nurturing feelings. Is it
possible that the brains of pedophiles are wired to find children sexually
attractive rather than adults? Charlotte
Lytton reported in The Daily Beast that
the brains of “paedophiles react to images they find attractive in the same way
as most people—but for some reason this reaction happens when they see images
of children, rather than other adults.” Their perceptions appear to be turned
upside down. Part 2 tomorrow
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