Well, I lurked this thread because I wanted to see if it was going to go the way of previous threads that breeched this subject in the past or if it was going to have some real dialog with an attempt to learn something.
Overall, it means nothing; it is a waste of time because no one really knows how the mind is wired 100% so one doesn’t really know if those who have pedophilia have it because it was concocted in them, some genetic misfiring, or something else. Shrinks will never find out because it is not anything they can find out. Even if they thought they could, there is no heart to do it. Just look at some of what has been said here in this thread and it seems weedy compared to other threads. If it was created by sexual trauma or in the genes society at large doesn’t care, as someone said, it is repugnant to most people. In another thread someone linked a short movie about what if homosexuality was the norm and straight people were the ”odd man out”. It was interesting, thank God nature done it the way it did, what if the system of pederasty used by the ancient Greeks was commonplace, we would not even have a shocking, ”ewwwww, that is so icky” conversation. But as it is now, you can joke about curing them with cyanide, basically a pedophile genocide, and not raise an eyebrow. If you were to say the same about limiting the number of Jewish shopkeepers in town there would be a shitstorm. And if you can say ”Well, Jewish people did nothing wrong, but ’those people’ are this” then you have demonstrated why very little will ever get done in that area. It is good business to have them as social pariahs no matter what; gives politicians a solid platform to campaign on, gives John Q a boogey man to blame social ills on justify more cops, owning a gun, and make home security companies more wealthy, not to mention prisons and those business that keep them running, the truth of the matter is that most people who commit sex crimes have a lower rate of recidivism than those who do so-called ”regular crimes”. Even though carjackers, drug dealers, your garden variety thief, etc. has a higher likelihood to terrorize US neighborhoods again and again, people I guess, can see them being closer than those with sex crimes so they don’t want to throw the book at them because it maybe a snare they will get caught in one day.
Not everyone with pedophilia has the same appetite, but most do not know or do not care, they want to use a broad brush and paint them all the same way. The friend I had who was by all measure a gay pedophile, he did not start out that way, or not that way in detectable ways. He told me of his very first sexual experience, he has a female cousin who lived with them who was much older than he, she being 14 years old and he being five. He remembers she somehow talked him into performing cunnilingus on her. He felt strange doing it but he said he did remember liking to do it. One day his father discovered them in the act, he beat her, then him, and she went away and he never saw her again. How he got from enjoying eating pussy even at a tender age to enjoying sucking penis I don’t know. I am sure someone could run with it and make all sorts of conclusions out of it; his eating out his cousin at age five did it, His father’s reaction turned him gay, if was because it was incest that turned him gay, and on and on. His appetite was preteen boys, he told me once why then and not girls, or younger boys, or even men, but it was so long ago I will not try to fathom what he said, but he, in his mind, had a reason. If one ever studied it, from what is out there, some prefer only females, others only male, and some don’t care so long as they fit a particular age bracket. Psychologist can look until they are blue in the face, they won’t find any answers, and I can be sure there will not be a one-size-fits-all cure.