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This article presents findings from 4,918 men pooled from nationally representative surveys of men in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, and presents a latent class analysis of men\u2019s attitudes to technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse, and its relationship with sexual interest in children and\/or sexual offending against children. This study identified and described three latent classes of attitudes towards technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse, identifying significant and meaningful behavioural and demographic differences between the three groups of men. 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From the perspective of secondary prevention, targeting men who hold normalisation and blame diffusion beliefs may assist agencies in identifying offenders earlier in their offending trajectory. 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