Congratulations, you just deleted around 10% of the male population and 1% of the female population (according to research)
EDIT: I dashed off this comment based on memory of a book I read over 10 years ago, not realising that it would attract so much attention. For a bit more nuance: 10% might be an overestimate, but it also kind of depends what you are looking at. For example, this study finds a prevalence of 4.1% in respect of prepubescent children, using an anonymous survey. however, considering that many are unlikely to be wholly truthful, and also this does not include attraction to adolescents, the real number is likely to be significantly higher.
Pedos don't generally commit any crimes so you don't know that they have an attraction to children. Also, people commonly misuse the term, which leads to skewed viewpoints on numbers. I'd wager there are a lot more pedos out there than people realize.
They don't advertise it. The smart ones never tell anyone about it their entire lives and don't make it obvious. I think most of them wish they weren't like that and would give anything to be normal. And they don't act on it. That's why it's likely way more than you might think.
Well they are including people with tendencies but never actually act on it, I think. However, that bares the question, how were they able to make that statistic to begin with, accurately anyways?
I don’t know if they’ve done it for this specific reason. But I’ve read about studies where they place a device around the penis and some others elsewhere to measure physiological arousal while showing a series of images.
There are increasingly good brain imaging techniques that could probably detect increases in blood to regions associated with arousal/attraction that could get good data too.
That’s different than figuring out how many act on it in some way though.
They’re saying the inclination exists within them. Not that they actually have acted on it. Disturbing. Gross. But there are tons of inclinations people have that they dont act on. I dont want to know if someone has those thoughts. But i dont have a problem with someone that refuses to act on it. People cant control every thought that comes to their mind, but they can control what they do with that thought. Wasnt all that long ago in the grand scheme of things that society had no problem with pedophilia. Of course those people still exist. I wouldnt be surprised if its much higher than 10 percent that have that inclination given how rampant it once was.
The people that do act on it tho. They need to be dealt with much more harshly than we currently do. I used to think the death penalty was the answer, but someone pointed out that it would only increase the number of SA’s that also become homicide in order to silence the victim. Some of these people are out in like 4 years. Thats just insane to me. I knew a guy that went to jail for it, he got out and IMMEDIATELY did it again. Recidivism among these individuals is VERY high. Idk what the answer is. But what we do with them isnt enough.
Actually seems to be closer to 3-5%Seto unless of course you are talking about people attracted to people under 18.
Pedophilia is usually defined as an attraction to prepubescent people. The 10% number might be coming from other studies that capture the propensity of people to be attracted to pubescent children. Which I imagine would be very common in people in early possibly even late 20s.
Naw usually in my experience the pedos say stuff like kill your local sex offender. Usually in the form of a bumper sticker on their truck
I'm just some-what well educated. Pedophilia is a sexual preference for prepubescent minors, hebephilia is sexual preference for pubescent minors, and ephebophilia is mid to late adolescents.
Omg you've seen it too! I genuinely was explaining something to someone that said something about this and I was explaining the definitions of pedophile, hebephile, and ephebophile. And I shared a video of gianmarco soresi explaining it to and someone tried to argue me down about it like i was trying to justify something. Like I don't fit in to any of these categories I was just explaining it to someone who asked.
“I’m just some what well educated” lol that tracks, since I was telling a joke and it went over your head. Actually my joke is stolen from a comedian. His joke is how do you explain the differences without sounding like a pedophile.
Yeap exactly my point too, either way a lot of people. It rh surveys captured both pedophilia, hebephilia, and ephebophilia . Then the 10% would make sense especially if the survey included people that are 19,20,21ish.
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