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The authors hypothesized that study participants with a higher VRT\u2122 to stimuli of children would be more likely to sexually reoffend compared with those with a lower VRT\u2122 to stimuli of children. Participants included 621 adult males on parole or probation for acting on a range of sexual paraphilias who sought outpatient treatment or evaluation at two separate therapists\u2019 practices. Sample 1 consisted of 284 adult males followed up (by the lead author) during a 15-year period, while Sample 2 consisted of 337 adult males followed up (by the second author) during a 7-year period. A discrete-time hazard model found VRT\u2122 to children to be significantly related to sexual recidivism. The researchers found that VRT\u2122 to children measured at intake held up in its predictive ability over a 15-year period. When the participants were divided into three groups based on their VRT\u2122, of the 97 participants who measured at least one standard deviation lower than the mean VRT\u2122, 0% reoffended. 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