Pessimism about pedophilia. There is no cure, so the focus is on protecting children. Pedophilia, the sexual attraction to children who have not yet reached puberty, remains a vexing challenge for clinicians and public officials. Classified as a paraphilia, an abnormal sexual behavior, researchers have found no effective treatment.
They choose evil. They revel in it. That's why they aren't treatable. They want what they want and they will feign "recovery" to get more of it.
Took me a while to go through that. A secular view that seeks to control behavior, got it.
The massive hole in the theory is the total lack of discussion of how pedophilia, once celebrated in Greco-Roman cultures, was dealt with when Christian Integration was accomplished. It is interesting that the two competing ideas actually had different names to describe pedophilic relationships. The Roman term retained a sense of love, while the Christian term denoted destruction/destructive behavior.
Another interesting thing is there is an absolute absence of written “how to” bring a new convert out of pedophilia; leaving several theories. The primary one being is they just stopped or were removed from the assembly until they had a change of heart (true repentance).
My source is “The Christian and Pedophilia: Applying Biblical Counseling to Christians Struggling with Pedophilia,” a doctoral thesis by Benjamin W Marshall at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
He admits there is a dearth written on the topic from a Christian point of view, but his thesis is noteworthy, a very interesting read.