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Drug Therapies | Surgical Castration
Excerpt
The common aim of drug therapies in the treatment of pedophilia
is to suppress sexual urges and sexual behavior involving children.
Much of the initial interest was on antiandrogens that reduced sex
drive, but clinicians and researchers have more recently focused
on serotonergic agents. Evaluation research on the use of these
drugs in treating pedophilia and other paraphilias is summarized
below.