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Knowledge in this area usually draws on forensic or clinical samples or relies on self-reporting from cohorts who identify as sexually attracted to children but claim to be non-offending. Clear definitions are therefore needed to interpret findings consistently. In this study, sexual interest in children refers to attraction to individuals aged 15 or younger or interest in abusing a child in hypothetical scenarios. Sexual behaviour involving minors refers to self-reported sexual contact involving individuals under the age of 18. Given the variation in age-of-consent laws within and between jurisdictions and over time, not all behaviours described in this study necessarily constitute criminal offending. Using data from an online survey of 4,918 men representative of the Australian, United States, and United Kingdom adult male population, the current study conducted a series of logistic regression analyses based on Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator variable selection with\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">k<\/jats:italic>\n                    -fold cross-validation to identify the covariates independently associated with men reporting (a) no sexual interest or behaviour involving minors, (b) sexual interest without behaviour, (c) sexual behaviour without interest, and (d) sexual interest and behaviour. Most respondents (83.5%) reported neither interest nor behaviour, 5.5% reported sexual interest only, 6.4% reported sexual behaviour without interest, and 4.6% reported interest and behaviour. Attitudes towards child sex abuse consistently distinguished each group of men across multivariable models. 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