Patient's question:
I am 23 years old and male, and I have had a severe sexual orientation disorder, specifically pedophilia, for many years. What should I do? I don't know where there are hospitals that can help. Or who can tell me how to quit? This is making me increasingly desperate. I can't save myself...Doctor's answer:
Commonly used methods include aversion therapy, which is also quite effective. When patients come into contact with children or child models, stimuli that cause physical and mental distress are administered, such as electrotherapy, rubber band stimulation, or muscle injections of emetic drugs to induce vomiting, in order to break down the patient's pathological conditioned reflexes. Through repeated reinforcement over multiple sessions, the goal is to change the patient's pedophilic behavior patterns. Additionally, pharmacological treatments, such as administering anti-androgens to patients to reduce the sexual desires of heterosexual and homosexual pedophiles, also yield some therapeutic effects.