Update 5/27/2023: Minor-attracted people are still needed for this survey. If you meet the eligibility requirements, please consider participating!

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Original Post, 3/4/2023:

B4U-ACT is supporting a new study conducted by Julia Levitan, a PhD candidate at McGill
University (Montreal, QC). The study aims to investigate the nature and correlates of
romantic attraction to persons across physical maturity stages, ranging from infants to the
elderly. You are eligible to participate in this study if you are at least 18 years old,
understand English, and are sexually and/or romantically attracted to prepubescent
and/or pubescent children.

Participation involves answering a variety of closed-response (e.g., multiple-choice)
questions about your experiences of sexual and romantic attraction to persons across
age/maturity stages, your personality, mental health and wellbeing, and your interactions
with children (including convictions or arrests for child sexual offenses). 

Interested potential participants may click the following link to participate or learn more:

For additional information, see the following information sheet and consent form provided by the researcher.

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B4U-ACT is supporting a new study conducted by Zsuzsi Bayer, a masters student at Instituto Humanista de Psicoterapia Gestalt (IHPG) in Mexico. The study aims to explore the experiences of people who choose to confide in someone about an attraction to children. You are eligible to participate in this study if you are at least 18 years old, identify as male, speak Spanish, and have self-disclosed an attraction to minors to someone (a family member, friend, partner, therapist, etc).

Participation involves completing an interview (either audio or email based) with the researcher on this topic. Interviews will be conducted in Spanish.

Interested potential participants can contact the researcher at the following email address:

estudioentrenosotros@protonmail.com

The following participant invitation and information sheets were provided by the researcher. Click below to open the documents in either English or Spanish:

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B4U-ACT is supporting a new study from researchers at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. The aims of the research project are to investigate parenting-related characteristics of people both with and without sexual attractions to children.

People who are attracted to children and are also parents (biological, step, adoptive, or otherwise) are invited to participate by completing an anonymous survey and/or participating in an anonymous interview with the researchers.

The researchers have provided the following message with additional information about the study:

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Hello,

We are currently recruiting for research aimed specifically at individuals who are attracted to children and are also parents (biological, step, adoptive, or otherwise). This involves two strands – a survey and interviews. Further information on each of these is outlined below.

Anonymous survey

This survey is specifically recruiting individuals who self identify as having an attraction to children and are parents (biological, step, adoptive, or otherwise). It explores parenting views, child-parenting relationships, your sexual attractions, and how these are managed within the context of parenting relationships, and how these relationships and self-perceived ability to parent might differ (if at all) from non-MAP parents.

The survey is anonymous, it does not collect IP addresses and it can be accessed using a Tor browser (although there might be a slight time lag in loading / between pages on some browser types).  The link to the survey is below – the first page provides full information about the study and you can then choose whether or not to take part.

https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/1513011E-EE27-4E13-9106-7996115A6CFF

Anonymous interviews

We are looking to interview individuals who are attracted to children and are also parents (biological, step, adoptive, or otherwise). The interviews will explore your parenting views, relationships with your children, your sexual attractions, how these are managed within the context of being a parent, and how (if at all) your sexual attraction affects your views and relationships with your children. The aim here is to capture different perspectives and lived experiences in an in depth way that is not possible to explore within a survey.

Interviews are generally conducted via Microsoft Teams with no video – you do not have to register for an account to use this, you can be sent the link to join so you can remain anonymous if you wish to. We can also consider other interview methods if you would prefer. If you would like to take part, have any questions, or would like more information please email me directly (Rebecca.Lievesley@ntu.ac.uk).

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Rebecca

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