Adult men's height results
from an interaction among positive and negative influences, including genetic
predisposition, conditions in utero, and influences during early development
such as nutritional quality, pathogen exposure, and socioeconomic status.
Decreased height, reflected specifically as a decreased leg length, is strongly
associated with increased risk of poorer health outcomes. Although prior
research has repeatedly shown that pedophiles are shorter than nonpedophiles,
the largest study to date relied on self-reported height. In the present study,
pedophiles demonstrated reduced measured height and reduced leg length as
compared with teleiophiles.
Given the prenatal and early childhood origins of
height, these findings contribute additional evidence to a biological,
developmental origin of pedophilia. In addition, the magnitude of this height
difference was substantially larger than that found in children exposed to a
variety of early environmental stressors, but similar to that seen in other
biologically based neurodevelopmental disorders
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By:
- 1Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada rlfazio@gmail.com.
- 2University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
- 3University of New England, New South Wales, Australia.
- 4Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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