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Pedophiles’ Brains Wired Differently
Yahoo! News / The Daily Beast ^ | May 23, 2014 | Charlotte Lytton

Posted on 05/23/2014 9:40:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Pedophiles’ brains are “abnormally tuned” to find young children attractive, according to a new study published this week. The research, led by Jorge Ponseti at Germany’s University of Kiel, means that it may be possible to diagnose pedophiles in the future before they are able to offend.

The findings, published in scientific journal Biology Letters, discovered that pedophiles have the same neurological reaction to images of those they find attractive as those of people with ordinary sexual predilections, but that all the relevant cerebral areas become engaged when they see children, as opposed to fellow adults. The occipital areas, prefrontal cortex, putamen, and nucleus caudatus become engaged whenever a person finds another attractive, but the subject of this desire is inverted for pedophiles....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: childabuse; paedophiles; pedophiles; pedophilia
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Does this mean they'll get Social Security disability? Hey, nothing would surprise me with this administration.
1 posted on 05/23/2014 9:40:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Pedophiles’ brains need to be wired 220v for about 2-3 minutes.


2 posted on 05/23/2014 9:43:50 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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“Born this way! Give us our rights, bigots!”


3 posted on 05/23/2014 9:45:59 PM PDT by Viennacon
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who didn’t know that?


4 posted on 05/23/2014 9:47:31 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: rockrr

480V~200A, 20 minutes and baste, repeat as needed.


5 posted on 05/23/2014 9:48:11 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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Yep! That’s where this is going.


6 posted on 05/23/2014 9:48:34 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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The research, led by Jorge Ponseti at Germany’s University of Kiel, means that it may be possible to diagnose pedophiles in the future before they are able to offend.

So what?

You can’t convict the pedophile until they have offended.

You can’t hospitalize them against their will unless they have been adjudicated as being a threat to themselves or others. Very few judges could be convinced that they diagnosed pedophile is a threat to others unless the pedophile himself admitted that he could not restrain himself in the presence of children.

So all of this research is useless unless the laws are changed and if the laws are changed to deal with this new science it would be struck down as unconstitutional at its first court hearing.

7 posted on 05/23/2014 9:49:12 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Their brains should be wired.........to old sparky.


8 posted on 05/23/2014 9:49:59 PM PDT by umgud
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2DV,
“Pedophiles” is a hot button, like “the children” and “wife beater”, “ baby killer”, “racist”... When connected to concepts like “the common good” “Reperation” and “civil commitment”, the slippery slope drops off to the ibis.

Rab


9 posted on 05/23/2014 9:58:22 PM PDT by Rabin
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The thing that’s wrong with these studies is that in a few years, normal people will be forced to accept pedos just like they had to gays. School children will be taught that pedos are okay and will be taught in text books how to submit to them.


10 posted on 05/23/2014 10:01:55 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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What month will be “Pedophile History” month? Let’s pick December. That should piss the Christians off! (sarcasm off)


11 posted on 05/23/2014 10:03:25 PM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles (Remember, you can't spell "progressive" without "SS".)
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idiots doctors...the only rewiring that has gone on is from their demons that make bodily changes.


12 posted on 05/23/2014 10:04:27 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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RE :”Pedophiles’ brains are “abnormally tuned” to find young children attractive, according to a new study published this week. The research, led by Jorge Ponseti at Germany’s University of Kiel, means that it may be possible to diagnose pedophiles in the future before they are able to offend. “

Sounds like they are born that way just like gays and transsexuals are.

Who are we to question their identity?

13 posted on 05/23/2014 10:06:55 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. I won. ')
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So this should mean that homosexuals are wired differently, too. They are abnormal in either case.


14 posted on 05/23/2014 10:07:31 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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it’s how they use terms.

differently == acceptable, must be tolerated as normal, just different, no stigma

abnormal == unacceptable, not tolerated as normal, stigma

they pick their words to frame ideas on purpose.


15 posted on 05/23/2014 10:11:29 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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rehabilitative care and necessary precautions could be taken

Contradicting themselves. The author admits they are hard wired, meaning they can't be "rehabilitated". Yet suggests doing that.

You incarcerate forever, or you execute them. To protect children, those are the only options.

16 posted on 05/23/2014 10:15:33 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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No, what it means is that, like gays, since they’re born that way they will be declared “normal “ by the American psychological association, there will be anti discrimination laws passed, pride parades held, and marriage ceremonies between 50 ye old man and 9 year old kids.


17 posted on 05/23/2014 10:24:32 PM PDT by aquila48
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Like the founder of Islam?


18 posted on 05/23/2014 10:33:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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That a pedophile gets excited by children does not even remotely demonstrate they were born that way.


19 posted on 05/23/2014 10:33:47 PM PDT by Williams
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People with Downs are born their way. What about all the others with handicaps or deformities.

With them, liberals want to do one of two things. Either heal or prevent their deformity, or abort them before hand.

What do you think would happen if the very same were proposed for gays?

20 posted on 05/23/2014 10:34:03 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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