Some risk factors were described in the previous section, but a more complete list of relevant factors include the following:
- Low esteem, difficulty relating with adults, or asserting oneself
- Sensitivity to rejection
- Still feel like a child emotionally – feeling not grown up
- Felt unloved in childhood
- Lack of physical touch or affection from parents in childhood
- Participation in childhood sexual activity, either by having been victimised, or engaging in precocious sex as a child
- Feeling more comfortable with children than adults, and developing special friendships with children
- Having to have sex to feel loved
- Using sex to recover from upsets or solve emotional problems
- Viewing child pornography and masturbating to images
- Collecting pornography, or being otherwise sexually preoccupied
- Sexual arousal to children
- Experiencing a confusion of love and sex
- Not talking to others about your needs when feeling upset, lonely or unloved
- Being preoccupied with wanting to show affection and love to children because no one showed you the love you wanted.