zerragonoss said:
Desert Punk said:
Again, you are making the mistake of assuming child molesters and abusers are interchangable with pedophiles, they are not.
Dear god I wonder how many times I will have to type that before it gets through to peoples brains...
And you are the one who is wrong, a growing number of psychologists are coming to realize that it is hard wired the same as any other orientation.
http://www.good.is/posts/is-pedophilia-a-sexual-orientation-a-psychologist-breaks-down-what-makes-a-jerry-sandusky
and
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/pedophilia-a-sexual-orientation-experts-tell-parliament
for a couple of sources from doctors.
Well I did not notice you saying they are different things and reading back it is in you sub text and I did not catch it. nor did I even think I was talking about the child molesters and abusers. other than that thank you for the link those were interesting. I am defiantly not convinced its a sexual orientation. Especially with this quote form the first article. "One thing I'd also like to point out is that instances of pedophilia have dropped quite substantially over the past few decades." This does at least make me think it needs to be looked at more openly, and I will keep the possibility in mind in future discussion.
One problem with measuring the proportion of paedophiles in society is that very few people will admit to being paedophiles. You sort of have to catch them red-handed.
So maybe the availability of child porn on the internet (and I'm not defending child porn) has decreased the amount of child abuse cases purely because paedophiles, who decades ago would only have been able to get their rocks off with actual children, now have a safer substitute. That's one economic feasibility.
It is interesting that the man in the first source claims there may be no female paedophiles. I'm not sure if I believe that, but I'm no psychiatrist. We had two male teachers arrested in my old school; one for possessing child porn and the other for having sex with underage children. And the recent high profile paedophiles all seem to be male, so maybe there's a trend. No women at all seems a bit far-fetched though.
The second source does seem clearer though, and I'm inclined to believe it.
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Desert Punk said:
Dear god I wonder how many times I will have to type that before it gets through to peoples brains...
Come now, it's not exactly trendy to be even marginally sympathetic towards paedophiles. People aren't really encouraged to consider your arguments all that often.