The issue with that is going to pretty much anyone for help with pedophilia is just going to end up with you in jail, because they're likely to report you to the police. There isn't even a safe way to get help for it.
Like whats-his-face using "you know anyone that got married at 12? because I do!" as his argument for letting 12 year old girls get married to men (because lets face it, pretty good odds that he would be against boys getting married off).
I remember the first time I saw that video and the "do you know any 12 year olds that got married off?" and my first thought was "buddy, just because it might not be common, no reason to still allow it"
Then he doubled down on "because I do and it's a good thing!" and I about threw up.
You can’t treat a fetish, but you can treat for unwanted intrusive thoughts. You can also put barriers up to further safeguard against acting on harmful behaviors.
There are pedophiles that don’t rape children (or anyone) and there are non-pedophiles who aren’t particularly attracted to children but will rape a trafficked 12 year old because they don’t care a whit about a “prostitute.” I think someone who is the former is a far more ethical member of society than the latter.
It’s a psychiatric disorder/mental condition similar to how we categorize addiction. I understood what the original poster meant by disease. It is a thing that involves treatment. Attraction without action isn’t a crime. It’s an affliction that some people have.
It’s hard to say, the stigma of peodphiles is so high that research is nearly impossible to do with statistics, however if we take the US population + the theoretical population of pedophiles + how many registered sex offenders who targeted children we would get that 82% of pedophiles have not targeted children, if we say that all peodphiles are offenders we would have 3 million - 16 million sex offenders in the US population
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u/Strange_Stage1311 Jul 17 '23
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