• theolodis@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      You mean raping children surely, nobody would care if they wouldn’t act on their attraction.

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        modern psychology doesn’t identify attraction to children as related to normal human sexuality like other sexual attractions, it’s outside that aspect of human behavior, and also not all child sexual abuse is related to attraction often it’s a rapist picking a ideal target.

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          “Although some people who commit child sexual abuse are pedophiles, child sexual abuse offenders are not pedophiles unless they have a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children, and many pedophiles do not molest children.”

          That’s exactly what I am saying, calling every sexual abuse of children pedophilia makes it seem as if it was related to attraction, when most of the time it’s not.