Of the 45 boys who have been through Gallagher's intervention centre, not one has re-offended. With adult offenders, on the other hand, core sexual desires appear to be harder to alter
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When we interviewed one of Fedoroff's patients, a man who had previously served time in prison for abusing his daughters, he confessed he still had sexual thoughts about his victims.
"For the paedophile," says Findlater, "what hope they have of shifting that arousal [is] relatively small."
He runs a helpline called Stop It Now! It attempts to reach out adults who are concerned about child sexual abuse - including men wrestling with sexual thoughts about children.
Findlater's focus is on helping men control their sexual desires, rather than curing them. "Our strategy is about self-management," he says. "We need to help them manage that arousal… to make sure it's kept under control." The men are given strategies as to how they achieve that in the absence of an intimate relationship with anybody else.
There are a number of adult men who acknowledge they are paedophiles but insist they do not abuse children, or view indecent images
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Help for those affected by child abuse
NSPCC specialises in child protection
National Association for People Abused in Childhood offers support, advice and guidance to adult survivors of any form of childhood abuse
Survivor Scotland offers help to improve the lives of survivors of childhood abuse in Scotland
Childline is a private and confidential service for children and young people up to the age of 19
The Children's Society works to support vulnerable children in England and Wales
Stop It Now! supports adults worried about child abuse, including survivors, professionals, those with a concern about their own thoughts or behaviour towards children and friends and relatives of people arrested for sexual offending
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