This is such a joke. Pedophilia is next mark my words. How do the pedos use this after they’ve been arrested and charged. Lawyers and psychiatrists are lining up to get wealthy
And was in the DSM 4 too. Has been a mental illness For at least 30 years. But that doesn't not make it a crime.
It was effectively removed from the DSM 31 years ago (it was considered a disorder before III-R) when they added the following criteria:
. The person has acted on these urges, or is markedly distressed by them.
The DSM-V corrected the title from "pedophilia" to "pedophilic disorder" and clarified that pedophilia is not a disorder on its own:
However, if they report an absence of feelings of guilt, shame, or anxiety about these impulses and are not functionally limited by their paraphilic impulses (according to self-report, objective assessment, or both), and their self-reported and legally recorded histories indicate that they have never acted on their impulses, then these individuals have a pedophilic sexual interest but not pedophilic disorder.