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In response to misinterpretations that the American Psychiatric Affiliation considers pedophilia a sexual orientation because of wording in its printed DSM-five guide, which distinguishes concerning paraphilia and what it calls "paraphilic dysfunction", subsequently forming a division of "pedophilia" and "pedophilic ailment", the association commen