Category: Subjects Needed

Male MAPs are needed to complete a survey that examines wanted and unwanted sexual experiences during childhood as well as cognitive development (and other developmentally relevant factors) among adult men with different sexual orientations. In contrast to most research in this area, the researchers want to shed light on the experiences of community men with and without sexual interests in minors instead of forensic samples. For every participant who completes the survey, the researchers will donate $1.50 to B4U-ACT (max. $300).

Principal Investigator: Alexander Schmidt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, Academic Officer (in collaboration with Sara Jahnke, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Post-doc & Juergen Hoyer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Professor)

If you are a male MAP who wishes to participate in the study, please click on the following survey link: https://www.soscisurvey.de/B4U-ACT/

B4U-ACT regularly collaborates with and advertises studies we feel will contribute to professional understanding of MAPs and/or to MAPs’ well-being. If you are an MAP and you’d like to contribute to such professional understanding, please consider participating in the online study described below, being conducted by a master’s student from Vrije University in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), in cooperation with the University of Ottawa and the Royal Mental Hospital (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada):

We are looking for adult men or women (18 or older) who are attracted to children (14 or younger) to complete a secure, anonymous online survey. The survey has two parts:

Survey 1 asks questions about experiences of sexual and romantic attraction to children (and adults, if relevant).

Survey 2 is about the physical and psychological characteristics that are attractive about children (and adults, if relevant).

Each survey takes about 10-15 minutes. The study is completely anonymous. After each first study, you will be asked if you would like to participate in the other study. This is totally voluntary.

To enter Study 1 about attraction to children (and adults), please go to the following link: https://ifpresearch.rohcg.on.ca/Sexual-and-romantic-attraction-in-persons-with-pedohebephilia.aspx

To enter Study 2 about features that are attractive about children (and adults), please go to the following link: https://ifpresearch.rohcg.on.ca/Physical-and-psychological-preferences-for-persons-with-pedohebephilia.aspx

Questions about this survey? Please contact Frederica Martijn: frederica.martijn@theroyal.ca, fredericamartijn@safe-mail.net, with the following fingerprint for encrypted email: 0D00 3188 5DCF 8517 C713 8309 1657 E1C9 D636 3BBD, or via ricochet:f6ujp32kogteny2d.

Research participants required – University of Surrey

[This announcement is posted on behalf of researchers who are conducting an anonymous online survey of MAPs from the UK and Northern Ireland. As with all studies publicized by B4U-ACT, this one has been vetted to ensure that it has the potential to advance the well-being of MAPs rather than to serve social control goals. It is expected to inform researchers about MAPs’ mental health needs and the barriers they encounter when seeking services to meet those needs.]

We are researchers at the University of Surrey looking to explore the thoughts, feelings and experiences of people with an attraction to prepubescent or pubescent children / young adolescents in relation to voluntary help seeking in the U.K and Northern Ireland (e.g. seeking advice /therapy / counselling / support). We are interested in your thoughts and experiences of seeking help or support for a wide variety of reasons (ranging from seeking advice or support for managing your sexual attraction to dealing with depression/ feelings of anxiety / coping with stigma / relationships / suicidal thoughts etc.)

In this study, we will require participants to complete an anonymous online questionnaire about your thoughts, feelings and experiences around the topic of seeking help in relation to your attraction (or reasons related to your attraction) towards children or young adolescents. We are interested to learn more about your experiences in the UK in order to understand more about the availability of help and barriers to help.

You may take part if you are aged 18 and above, you self-identify an attraction towards children or young adolescents and you currently reside (or have resided in the UK & N.I).

If you would like to take part, please click on the link (or copy and paste the link) below to take you to further information and the questionnaire.

Link:

https://surreyfahs.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_7WE6Q6uWdwA7HeJ

If you have further questions please contact Emma at e.fellowes@surrey.ac.uk

This study has received a favourable ethical opinion from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Ethics Committee, at the University of Surrey.