A recent trend in cognitive science and neuroscience has been the stress on the importance of human embodiment for cognitive development and the way external factors can be viewed as part of human beings' extended cognitive system (Clark, 2008; Johnson, 2007). The aim of this paper is to present the Extended Mind Theory (EMT) and outline its implications for understanding and treating cognitive distortions in sex offenders. The paper first briefly examines the two most prominent theories of cognitive distortions in the sexual offending arena, Abel et al.'s (1984) post offense theory and Ward's (2000) implicit theory model. It then examines their limitations and provides an overview of the EMT. Lastly, the EMT is applied to the sexual offending area and demonstrates the advantages of this novel conception of cognition. References (Published Abstract)