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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
I see where you are coming from, but what pedophiles find attractive is that they have a child's mindset. That they are innocent and have power lorded over them. Not their bodies. They wouldn't be attracted to adults that look like children. So it's not a sexuality, it's a rape fetish. Consent doesn't exist with children and that's what pedophiles like about it.
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I don't think that's true for all cases.. just like not all attraction to adults is a rape fetish, neither is attraction to children. For some I'm sure it's a power/violence thing, just like with rapists who rape adults, but I don't think that's true for all pedophiles. The wikipedia entry for pedophilia seems to talk about different kinds and motivations, saying for example:
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Castration, either physical or chemical, appears to be highly effective in removing such sexual impulses when offending is driven by the libido, but this method is not recommended when the drive is an expression of anger or the need for power and control (e.g., violent/sadistic offenders).[101]
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It talks too about the diagnostic criteria and mentions some people are "true" pedophiles in that their attraction is the child, not the power.
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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
I get that treatment and understanding will help more than villification for non offending pedophiles and I get that it's not a choice. But it's not the same as being heterosexual/homosexual/bisexual/pansexual which involve being attracted to sex with a type of person that can consent.
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I totally agree, kids can't consent so it's not equivalent and can never be treated as such in society, but the attraction itself is what it is, a sexual attraction. That the target can't consent is an artifact of society and how humans develop.