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James M. Cantor is an American-Canadian clinical psychologist and sexologist specializing in hypersexuality and paraphilias.. A former senior scientist with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Cantor was editor-in-chief of the journal Sexual Abuse from 2010 to 2014. His research on brain differences in pedophiles has been cited as evidence that pedophilia is something

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Years of research and MRI scans have led Dr. Cantor to his groundbreaking yet controversial hypothesis that pedophilia is caused by a developmental disorder, resulting in a literal cross-wiring in the brain. " We follow Dr. Cantor to Germany, where Prevention Project Dunkelfeld (Dark Field) is the only facility in the world offering truly

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Dr. James Cantor is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He has spent over ten years researching the brains of convicted pedophiles and is one of the world's leading experts on the

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Toronto psychologist James Cantor is an unlikely ally of the Christian right in defending anti-trans laws, but says they have a common cause. ... Cantor's research focused on pedophilia and he

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Dr. James Cantor talks about what brain research is telling us about the minds of the most abhorred people in society, pedophiles, and what he's learned that

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The second (the informative video) showed Dr. James Cantor speaking about his research into the neurobiological basis of pedophilia as a sexual orientation (though for a critique of this approach to understanding pedophilia, see Joyal et al., 2019). In both videos, the essence of the message was the same: that pedophilia is an innate form of

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/what-can-be-done-about-pedophilia/279024/
Wikimedia Commons. To accompany todays's first-person essay from David Goldberg, "I, Pedophile," I asked James Cantor, Ph.D., an international expert on pedophilia, to answer some common questions..

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Hamilton, ON. 2016, January 29. Literary Gathering for Intellectual Diversity featuring James Cantor, PhD, on the Causes of Pedophilia and Hebephilia. Barry University. Miami Shores, FL. 2015, August 9. Hypersexuality: Getting past whether "it" is or "it" isn't. International Academy of Sex Research. Toronto, Canada.

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James M Cantor. Director, Toronto Sexuality Centre; Associate Professor, University of Toronto. Verified email at torontosexuality.ca - Homepage. Sexual behavior pedophilia paraphilia transsexuality sexual orientation. Title. Sort. Sort by citations Sort by year Sort by title. Cited by.

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Dr. James Cantor is a clinical psychologist and sexual behavior scientist. His research uses MRI and other techniques to study the role of the brain in the development of human sexual interests

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/29/us/pedophiles-online-sex-abuse.html
A majority of convicted offenders are men who prey on children ages 6 to 17. But women also commit hands-on offenses; rough estimates put the rate of pedophilic attraction at 1 to 4 percent in

https://thevarsity.ca/2019/09/08/in-the-spotlight-dr-james-cantor/
— Dr. James Cantor (@JamesCantorPhD) December 8, 2018. The tweet, which mirrors his view of pedophilia being a sexual orientation, suggests that pedophilia should be included in the LGBTQ+ community. [pullquote]Cantor thinks that there should be a clear line drawn between people with pedophilia who do and don't act upon their urges.[/pullquote]

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Cantor slides: Pedophilia and the brain: Results from the 2nd generation of research 8 April 2016 ... Dr. James Cantor 2 Carlton St., #1820 Toronto, ON M5B 1J3 Canada twitter: @JamesCantorPhD voice: 416.766.8733. About Lectures Research Downloadables

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-shift/202106/are-pedophiles-born-or-made
For instance, James Cantor, of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, who uses magnetic resonance imaging to scan pedophiles' brains, believes that "pedophilia is a sexual

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Cantor, now a semi-regular guest on the Savage Love podcast, brings scientific legitimacy to a tricky subject, and Savage gives Cantor an international platform. "The timing was right for a public discussion about biology and pedophilia," says Cantor, "but Dan Savage was the first person with the balls to say it out loud."

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Clinical psychologist James Cantor says a current court case about child pornography gives us a chance to have an important conversation about pedophilia. He says most Canadians confuse pedophiles

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Mysteries of the Mind: The Pedophile's Brain. The Agenda with Steve Paikin. July 13, 2021. Share. Dr. James Cantor explains how MRI imaging indicates that crossed wiring in the brain is the cause of pedophilia. He also discusses the implications of his research on this disturbing condition.

https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/bioethics/article/view/5991
As Dr. James Cantor has noted in previous interviews, "one cannot choose to not be a pedophile, but one can choose to not be a child molester […] Pedophilic men have significantly less white matter, which is the connective tissue that is responsible for communication between different regions in the brain."[vi]Sympathizing with an

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I, Pedophile: Directed by Matthew Campea. With James Cantor, Jonathan Castro, Edward Chambers, Sandra DaCosta. Pedophiles have long been the most demonized people in society, but new research is showing that understanding them is the first step in lowering instances of child sexual abuse. Meet the men born attracted to the impossible, and the maverick doctors who dare advocate on their behalf.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-02057-x
The second (the informative video) showed Dr. James Cantor speaking about his research into the neurobiological basis of pedophilia as a sexual orientation (though for a critique of this approach to understanding pedophilia, see Joyal et al., 2019). In both videos, the essence of the message was the same: that pedophilia is an innate form of

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Dr. James Cantor of CAMH has shown pedophilia is like a sexual orientation — a deep attraction that cannot change. Now, pedophiles who have never molested children are seeking social acceptance.

https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/opinion/cantor-pedophila-sandusky/index.html
James Cantor: In Sandusky case, a central element that has been overlooked is pedophilia . Cantor: One cannot choose to not be a pedophile, but one can choose to not be a child molester

https://medium.com/@Anarchasteminist/james-cantor-paedophilia-and-the-gender-critical-movement-ab7cf4e0d94
Cantor has also seen a great deal of favour within the anti-trans "gender critical"(GC) movement for his writing on "desistance", becoming the primary source for the widely stated, if