Pedophilia: A Specific Instance of New Phylism Theory as Applied to Paraphilic Lovemaps

Abstract

In many species, pairbonding between the neonate and one or each parent is necessary for the survival of the dependent young. In mammals, pairbonding of the infant with the mother, or a mother substitute, is a sine qua non of nutrition and survival. In terms of the evolutionary neurobiology of behavior, parent/offspring pairbonding is a primordial characteristic of mammalian phylogeny. Thus, the capability for pairbonding between a human parent and his or her baby is phylogenetically programmed into the species. That is to say, pairbonding is a species-determined unit of human existence, predetermined to occur, other things being equal, simply because humans are members of their species. There has been no satisfactory name suggested that includes all phylogenetic, or species-determined, units of human existence. Some, though not all, of them have been rather loosely categorized as instincts and as reflexes. The generic term “ phylism”*that this author has adopted is derived from “ phylogeny.”¹A phylism is defined as “a unit or building block of human existence that belongs to human beings, as individuals, through their heritage as members of their species. Some phylisms have everyday, vernacular names, such as “breathing,” “coughing,” “sneezing,” “hiccupping,” “drinking,” “swallowing,” “biting,” “chewing,” “pissing,” “shitting,” “fucking,” “laughing,” “crying,” “walking,” “grasping,” “holding,” “sweating,” “touching,” “hurting,” “tasting,” “smelling,” “hearing,” and “seeing.” The complete list has not been counted. Other phylisms have Latinate names, like “thermoregulation,” “salt regulation,” and “immunoregulation.” Still others exist that have yet to be named, or that have been named only recently, for example, “pairbonding” and “troopbonding” (Money, 1983).