Pedophilia and Exhibitionism: A Handbook

Abstract

The title brings together two quite unrelated clinical conditions which, the authors explain, are the most common sexual offenses. This creates an ambiguity, suggesting that there is a causal relation between the two conditions, comparable to writing a book on "cancer and heart disease" simply because they might be the most common causes of death. We are really dealing here with two separate books, something the title ought to reflect more clearly. There are 96 pages devoted to pedophilia and 58 devoted to exhibitionism. The remainder consists of appendices. The volume, representing the collaboration of three people of diverse disciplines, justifies in many ways the term "handbook," if we consider it a source of information, particularly statistical information. The book has many tables and graphs, with all kinds of interesting facts concerning the offender, the victim, the offenses, and the like. There is an implied objective, which may be inferred