The Science of Pedophilia

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What comes to mind when you hear the word "Pedophile"? "evil"? "hurtful"? "Deceitful"? Do you think there is a possibility to feel empathy for a pedophile? This week, we sat down with Dr. James Cantor. Dr. Cantor is a Clinical Psychologist and his credentials include a degree in Psychology from Boston University, PhD from McGill University, Associate Professor on the University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Dr. Cantor is the foremost living expert on the psychology of pedophilia. We have a dense and in depth conversation about Dr. Cantor's work surrounding the study of Pedopilia as a psychiatric disorder and sexual orientation. Buckle up!

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0:31.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:34.2	Jeremy here.
0:39.0	This week's episode, we dive into some heavy material, not heavy material, but controversial subject matter.
0:49.3	We spend the next hour talking about pedophilia.
0:53.9	In particular, pedophilia studied as a mental illness,
0:59.0	studied by Dr. James Cantor, who is a sexual psychologist. Our conversation with Dr. Cantor,
1:06.0	it was a pretty eye-opening one for myself and for Brian and Taylor as well.
1:12.7	Before we dive into this conversation, before I let the episode start,
1:18.3	I just want to ask you to listen to this episode with an open mind and an open heart. Oftentimes when the word pedophile or pedophilia comes up in
1:33.3	conversation, we tend to just shut down, at least for me, right? Every time I would hear that word or I would
1:39.6	hear some sort of story that had something to do with that topic, I would become enraged. There would be
1:46.5	this anger that came over me. We condemn pedophilia so strongly as a society that whenever it comes
1:56.9	up in conversation, we just shut off. And Dr. James Cantor has a lot to say about what it
2:05.0	means to be a pedophile, things that I never really would have considered. So that's all I ask,
2:11.1	is for the next hour, just sit down and, in the words of Taylor, from his really great blog post on this week's episode,
2:20.2	over at our website, sickboy podcast.com.
2:22.8	Take a deep breath.
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