ArticleSexual abuse : a journal of research and treatment2026
Child Sexual Abuse Material Users on the Darknet: Psychiatric Morbidities Related to Offence Behavior.
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- Identity under threat: internal conflict and stigma in undetected child sexual abuse material users.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Formal help-seeking among community-based Czech individuals with sexual interest in minors is associated with the perceived urgency of self-identified concerns.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Individuals engaging in child sexual abuse often present pedophilic interest, but the other psychiatric morbidities among undetected users of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) are largely unknown. We mapped the psychiatric profile of 160 mainly male and primarily non-convicted anonymous Darknet-recruited adult CSAM users. The participants' psychiatric morbidities were analyzed descriptively, and correlations between sexual pathologies known as risk factors for committing child sexual abuse (paraphilias, hypersexuality) and CSAM offense behavior (viewing time, content) were examined in a series of exploratory linear regression models. Pedophilic interests, hypersexuality, autism traits, ADHD, and depression were commonly reported. Further, hypersexuality was associated with CSAM viewing time (
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