TY - JOUR PY - 1990// TI - Man-boy lovers: assessment, counseling, and psychotherapy JO - Journal of homosexuality A1 - van Naerssen, A. SP - 175 EP - 187 VL - 20 IS - 1-2 N2 - Clinical experiences with 36 males, between the ages of 21 and 60 are described. All of them felt an enduring sexual attraction for boys. Sixteen males were treated for sexual identity conflicts. For eight of them this ended in a positive self-labeling as pedophile, the others had severe problems with accepting sexuality as positive and lustful. Twenty males were treated for identity management problems and counseled how to handle their relationships with boys. Several modalities of interpersonal interaction in man-boy relationships are proposed and the ways conflicts can arise within these frames of reference are explored in counseling and psychotherapy.

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