pedophilia
Enable an AI agent to record evidence relevant to pedophilic disorder, distinguish clinical diagnosis from attraction alone and abusive behavior, and identify appropriate assessment, support and safeguarding actions.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
6 bundles · 11 layers · 18 findings · 28 questions
Attraction pattern Describe whether the evidence concerns a persistent attraction to prepubescent children.
Developmental focus
Establish the developmental category described by the available evidence.
Prepubescent target boundary
Record whether prepubescence is supported, uncertain, or being inferred only from chronological age; do not request child imagery or intimate examinations to resolve it.
- Does the account specifically concern prepubescent children, or does it use an ambiguous term such as underage? definition
- What existing, appropriately obtained evidence supports the developmental category, and what remains unknown? provenance
Persistence and exclusivity
Describe the course and breadth of the reported attraction without soliciting explicit content.
Recurrent pattern evidence
Record onset, recurrence, observation gaps, and whether attraction to adults also exists, with uncertainty attached to each account.
- Over what period has the attraction reportedly recurred, and how reliable is the onset estimate? measurement
- Is the reported attraction exclusive or nonexclusive, and who established that description? provenance
Differential assessment and evidence Prevent unsupported attribution and distinguish presentations that require different interpretations.
Intrusive thoughts and alternative explanations
Record unresolved distinctions that require qualified assessment.
Thought versus attraction assessment
Keep feared intrusive thoughts, reported attraction, and other possible explanations distinct; neither distress nor its absence resolves the differential alone.
- Does the person describe attraction, fear of being attracted, or an account whose meaning remains unresolved? boundary
- What differential assessment is needed before attributing a persistent attraction pattern? action
Attribution quality
Preserve the origin and limits of every personal attribution.
Claim source and correction
Distinguish self-report, clinical interpretation, third-party allegation, and automated inference; keep conflicts visible and unsupported claims correctable.
- Who made the attribution, from what evidence, and for what assessment purpose? provenance
- Which conclusions exceed the evidence and should be withheld, corrected, or reviewed? action
Clinical disorder boundary Separate the attraction description from a qualified determination of pedophilic disorder.
Framework-specific assessment
Identify the diagnostic authority, version, and assessor responsible for a determination.
Diagnostic requirements
Record the applicable duration, age, age-difference, and additional clinical requirements without treating them as universal across frameworks. The distinction and DSM-5-TR requirements are summarized in the [Merck Manual clinical reference](https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/psychiatric-disorders/paraphilias-and-paraphilic-disorders/pedophilic-disorder).
- Which diagnostic framework and version governs this assessment, and which requirements remain unassessed? definition
- Has a qualified clinician evaluated developmental exclusions and documented a conclusion? provenance
Distress and function
Represent the person's difficulties without assigning every difficulty to the attraction.
Impact and attribution
Record distress, functional difficulties, and their assessed causes separately, including uncertainty about stigma, intrusive fears, urges, and co-occurring conditions.
- What distress or functional difficulty is reported, over what interval, and using what assessment method? measurement
- Which impacts are clinically attributed to the attraction pattern, and which have unresolved or separate causes? boundary
Behavior and child safety Represent relevant conduct and actionable safety concerns independently of attraction and diagnosis.
Behavioral separation
Link relevant events while preserving their distinct evidential and legal status.
Conduct record boundary
Record relevant behavior through references to appropriate case records; absence of disclosed behavior is not proof of absence, and attraction alone does not establish an offense.
- What relevant conduct is reported or documented, and is each account an allegation, self-report, verified event, or adjudicated finding? provenance
- Which details belong in a linked abuse or legal case model rather than this attraction model? boundary
Current safety response
Identify circumstances requiring timely human safeguarding assessment.
Urgent concerns and protection
Record current disclosures of intent, planning, access to children, difficulty maintaining control, and available protective measures; do not generate a numerical risk estimate without an appropriate validated assessment.
- What concrete, current evidence indicates a child may be at risk, and when was that evidence assessed? measurement
- Which immediate protective action and qualified human escalation are appropriate under the applicable safeguarding procedure? action
Care and information boundaries Support access to help while governing sensitive attribution and disclosure.
Specialist support
Connect identified needs to qualified services and reviewable goals.
Care goals and follow-through
Record agreed goals such as preventing harm, managing distress, and maintaining safe behavior; link treatment decisions to clinicians and avoid promising elimination of attraction.
- What help is sought, and which specialist service can assess the person's needs and eligibility? action
- Which agreed outcomes will be reviewed, by whom, and at what interval? measurement
Confidentiality and disclosure
Limit recording and sharing to an established purpose and applicable authority.
Sensitive attribution governance
Record necessary access limits, correction routes, and context-specific disclosure obligations; do not treat attraction alone as a universal reporting trigger.
- What information is necessary for the stated care or safeguarding purpose, and who is authorized to receive it? boundary
- What verified jurisdictional and professional rule governs any disclosure in these circumstances? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Kinds and varieties
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Identifiers and schemes
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Standards and regulation
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Typical measurements
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of pedophilia this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.ACT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Boylover
What it is Filled
Pedophilia in this sense denotes pedophilic disorder, a psychiatric and paraphilic disorder involving persistent, recurrent sexual attraction to prepubescent children that meets the additional diagnostic requirements of an explicitly identified clinical framework; attraction alone does not establish the disorder, and child sexual offending is not synonymous with the diagnosis.
In scope
- Evidence of recurrent attraction to prepubescent children, including persistence and uncertainty.
- Distinctions between attraction, intrusive thoughts, pedophilic disorder, and abusive behavior.
- Clinical assessment status under an explicitly identified diagnostic framework.
- Separately evidenced behavior, immediate safety concerns, and protective measures.
- Support needs, specialist referrals, and limits on agent inference and disclosure.
Out of scope
- Investigation, adjudication, and sentencing of child sexual abuse offenses.
- Child sexual abuse material classification, evidence handling, and removal workflows.
- Survivor assessment, recovery, and child protection case management.
- Full models of obsessive-compulsive disorder, other psychiatric conditions, and neurological disorders.
- Attraction to pubescent or postpubescent adolescents as distinct concepts.
- General sexual development and age-of-consent legislation.
Why it exists Filled
Enable an AI agent to record evidence relevant to pedophilic disorder, distinguish clinical diagnosis from attraction alone and abusive behavior, and identify appropriate assessment, support and safeguarding actions.
Distinguishing features Filled
- The attraction concerns prepubescent children; chronological minority alone does not establish this developmental target.
- Evidence must distinguish a recurrent attraction pattern from an isolated thought, allegation, search, or observed act.
- Pedophilic attraction and pedophilic disorder require separate records; a disorder determination requires additional framework-specific assessment.
- Child sexual abuse and pedophilic attraction must not be inferred automatically from one another.
- Unwanted intrusive fears require differential assessment; distress alone establishes neither attraction nor its absence.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Produce, describe or seek any content that sexualizes children.
- Help anyone gain access to, groom or contact children.
- Normalize, justify or advocate sexual contact with children.
- Label a named person as having pedophilic disorder without a documented clinical diagnosis, or infer the disorder or attraction from a conviction or abusive behavior alone.
- Use the label as a general insult or to incite violence.
Only with a human decision
- Reporting a concern about a specific person or child to authorities.
May
- Explain the clinical concept and the difference between attraction and abuse from medical sources.
- Point people who are worried about their own attractions to confidential prevention services.
- Direct people to child protection services when a child may be at risk.
Moral aspects Filled
- Child protection comes first in every case.
- Stigma deters people who have never offended from seeking help that prevents abuse.
Who is affected
- Children
- Survivors of abuse
- People seeking help
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; clinicians diagnose it and the law protects children.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1088341 - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.pedophilia
- Wikidata: Q8388 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8388)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Attraction-pattern evidence: not assessed | reported | clinically supported | disputed | insufficient evidence
- Developmental target: prepubescent | pubescent | postpubescent | mixed | unresolved
- Reported persistence: Months or years, with estimated onset, observation interval, and uncertainty
- Attraction exclusivity: exclusive to prepubescent children | nonexclusive | unknown | not assessed
- Subject developmental context: Age in years at assessment and relevant age differences, where clinically necessary
- Distress and functional impact: Assessed separately by domain, severity, time period, and attributed cause
- Diagnostic determination: Link to qualified assessor, diagnostic framework and version, date, conclusion, and supporting assessment
- Relevant behavior evidence: Links to dated self-reports, allegations, documented events, or adjudicated findings, each retaining its evidence status
- Current safeguarding assessment: Link to dated assessment of intent, planning, access, control, protective factors, and urgency
- Support engagement: not discussed | requested | referred | engaged | interrupted | declined | unknown
- Sensitive-record permissions: Purpose, authorized audience, consent or other applicable basis, retention rule, and disclosure constraints
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
An internal pattern of attraction or psychiatric disorder cannot be identified from appearance or visual observation alone.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Record a minimally necessary, non-graphic account of reported attraction and its evidential limits.
- Identify missing information and refer ambiguous presentations for qualified differential assessment.
- Associate a clinician's diagnostic determination with its framework without independently diagnosing.
- Route concrete safeguarding concerns to the applicable human or emergency workflow.
- Offer specialist support pathways and track agreed prevention and care actions.
- Correct unsupported attributions and restrict access or disclosure according to applicable authority.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Sexual abuse of children when a person acts on the attraction.
- False accusations and vigilante violence against wrongly named people.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- International Classification of Diseases, 11th revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization.
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), American Psychiatric Association.
Context of use required Filled
- This concept occurs in psychiatric assessment, research and safeguarding discussions where attraction, diagnosable disorder and abusive behavior must be distinguished.
- It supports careful documentation of reported experiences and clinical findings without treating attraction alone as evidence of offending.
Sources Filled
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), Pedophilic Disorder - Diagnostic threshold: recurrent intense sexual interest in prepubescent children (generally ≤13), duration ≥6 months, acted-on or distressing/impairing, person ≥16 and ≥5 years older than the child; exclusive/non-exclusive and sex-of-child specifiers.
- ICD-11 for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 6D32 Pedophilic disorder - WHO definition of pedophilic disorder as a sustained, focused, intense pattern of sexual arousal involving prepubertal children, distinct from sexual behaviour with children that is not driven by that pattern.
- International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision (ICD-10), F65.4 Pedophilia - Earlier WHO code still used in many health systems; sexual preference for children, usually of prepubertal or early pubertal age.
- Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children: Theory, Assessment, and Intervention (2nd ed.) - Clinical/forensic distinction between pedophilic age preference and child sexual offending; exclusive vs non-exclusive forms; assessment (including phallometry and SSPI) and treatment evidence.
- Wikidata item Q8388: pedophilia - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Pedophilia - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should the registry's ACT / ACT.ACT placement be retained with an explicit attraction-pattern interpretation, or does its ontology require a different classification?
- Which diagnostic framework and version should govern each deployment, particularly its duration requirements, developmental exclusions, and distress criteria?
- Which assessment methods are sufficiently validated for the intended population, especially help-seeking people without known offenses and older adolescents?
- Which locally available specialist services and safeguarding procedures can be verified, including their confidentiality and reporting rules?
- Which outcomes can responsibly indicate improved well-being and maintained child safety without treating changes in attraction, behavior, and assessed risk as interchangeable?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q8388/spec.json