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In reaction to misinterpretations which the American Psychiatric Affiliation considers pedophilia a sexual orientation because of wording in its printed DSM-5 handbook, which distinguishes between paraphilia and what it calls "paraphilic condition", subsequently forming a division of "pedophilia" and "pedophilic ailment", the Affiliation commented: