chew on this, you disgusting fascist fool
. a fellow with an unhealthy attraction to minors downloaded some pictures of naked kids. he never raped anybody, but he was given 300 years sentence for those pictures in his computer.
One that recognizes that their urges are unhealthy who do nothing to harm children. most pedophiles should be treated as a behavioral health, not a criminal issue. the criminals are the traffickers making the CP and arranging live dates. those are the people who need to be prosecuted. the ones actually hurting kids.
Pedophilia can be something you're born with. It's not an addiction, although pedophiles can be sex addicts and are often given addiction-type treatment. As a sex addict, I'm convinced we fail these people in ways that increase our risks.
psmag.com
Approximately 1 to 5% of the male population is estimated to have pedophilia [
1,
2,
3], that is, a sexual interest in children [
4]. Despite common misperceptions,
pedophilia is neither a necessary nor sufficient precondition for sexual offending against children [
5]. In fact, an unknown, but most likely
substantial number of people with a sexual preference for children never commit sexual offenses [
6], and
an estimated 40–60 percent of sexual offenses against children are not committed by people with pedophilic interests [
5,
7,
8,
9]. Nevertheless, research has shown that people from the general public have extremely negative feelings and attitudes with regard to people with pedophilia, including the ones that do not offend [
10]. Accordingly, people with pedophilia have to fear being shamed, threatened, and cut off from sources of social support, if their sexual interests are discovered [
6], which may in turn increase the risk of sexual offending and barriers to seeking therapy.