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Is pedophilia a sexual orientation?
The Toronto Star ^ | Dec 22 2013 | Laura Kane

Posted on 12/29/2013 2:59:28 PM PST by Salman

Pedophilia has been widely viewed as a psychological disorder triggered by early childhood trauma.

Now, many experts see it as a biologically rooted condition that does not change — like a sexual orientation — thanks largely to a decade of research by Dr. James Cantor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Cantor’s team has found that pedophiles share a number of physical characteristics, including differences in brain wiring. It’s now thought that about 1 to 5 per cent of men are pedophiles, meaning they are primarily attracted to children.

These findings have been widely accepted among scientists, but have had little impact on social attitudes or law. However, we are left with the alarming question: if some men are born pedophiles, what should society do with them?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: disorders; gayagenda; homosexualagenda; pedophileagenda; pedophiles; pedophilia; perverts; psychology
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To: montanajoe

Pedophilia and Psychological Profiling

What is a child molester or pedophile?

v “A slightly older individual who engages in any type of sexual activity with individuals legally defined as children.”

v “A lover of children.”

v “Person who has developed a sexual interest in children that ranges from fondling to mutilation and murder.”

http://www1.csbsju.edu/uspp/CrimPsych/CPSG-6.htm


101 posted on 12/29/2013 10:25:08 PM PST by Fred Nerks
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To: yldstrk
may all their weenies shrivel up and fall off

A blowtorch would accomplish that nicely.

102 posted on 12/29/2013 10:44:53 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: corlorde
Yep, like the small percentage of the US that is gay. A very small percentage, but every day it is gay, gay, gay, gay....you can’t get away from it.

HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.

103 posted on 12/29/2013 10:52:11 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
So you are a believer in thought-crime? Imprisoning or executing people for what we think they might do some day?

In practice this would of course mean punishing them for what some LEO or psychologist is able to convince a jury they might do some day. This precedent would of course never be used to punish those who hole other unpopular religious or scientific beliefs. / s

Punishing or executing someone for (supposedly) being a pedophile is in principle no different from punishing him for being a homophobe or a racist.

104 posted on 12/30/2013 4:25:43 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: yldstrk

Agreed. Ruined, or preferably ended.

BTW, I reject the idea that every child who it molested or woman who is raped has his/her life totally destroyed as a result. I refuse to accept that people are incapable of bouncing back from even the most horrific abuse. See the young girl in Salt Lake who appears to have recovered well.

Which does not mitigate the crime in any way.


105 posted on 12/30/2013 4:29:49 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Shadowstrike

Pedophilia is not an action, it is an inclination.

Do we imprison or execute people because somebody else thinks they have a tendency to be inclined to commit murder? Rape? Theft?

Should homophobia be a crime? What about racism?


106 posted on 12/30/2013 4:38:45 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: montanajoe
old farts liking a young woman of legal age, pedophiles, doesn’t protect a single child.

Sorry, but this is more loose use of words.

1st point. AFAIK I have never seen an adult male of whatever age who pursued 18+ females referred to as a pedophile, except possibly in jest. If you have examples, please post them.

2nd point. Pedophilia is a medical term and thus has a fairly precise meaning. It refers to attraction to (not necessarily acted on) pre-pubescent children. Puberty is a biological phenomenon, not a legal one. Chronological age is not relevant.

Someone who is attracted to post-pubescents (again regardless of chronological age) is called an ephebophile. Most of those we call pedophiles in denunciation are actually ephebophiles, medically speaking.

I have no problem with severe penalties for child molestation below the age of consent, but I think there is good reason to keep a bright line between the two types of philia. The rape/seduction of a 16 year old girl is NOT the same thing as the rape of a 3 year old and should not be treated exactly the same by the law or by society.

Final point. I firmly believe what/who one is sexually attracted to is something that is generally beyond one's conscious control, while actions are not beyond control.

Punishing people for their attractions rather than their actions would be to accept the liberal POV that a person cannot resist his inclinations and therefore by extension that he is not fully responsible for his actions.

107 posted on 12/30/2013 5:06:10 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Albion Wilde

Kinsey needed more than therapy...

just found this oldie thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234107/posts

just how did he get sexual data on..CHILDREN?

you guessed it!


108 posted on 12/30/2013 5:44:33 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Its beginning to look a lot like Kwanzaa)
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To: bgill

LOL Yeah, you’re right.


109 posted on 12/30/2013 10:32:00 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Vote Democrat. Once you're OK with killing babies the rest is easy. <BCC><)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I’ve been aware of Reisman’s work in exposing that lying pervert Kinsey for many years now. Such people have always existed in the darkness, but in America at least, there were fewer of them before the rise of the ACLU and internet porn. Now they are demanding affirmation in the light of day. My goal is to work toward allowing legal discrimination (freedom of association) once again, so that moral people of all colors can legally shut immorality out of their neighborhoods, schools and places of employment. It is disgusting to have children exposed to the swill that runs through the schools and the media like a human waste sewer.


110 posted on 12/30/2013 11:22:03 AM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: Albion Wilde

Swill is indeed what it and they are!

I once knew a kid..this as an adult who had been.....abused under threat of extreme violence for years...by his official “big brother”.

the poor kid was perpetually quietly enraged until he decided to kick you in the groin for no apparent reason.

the kinsey’s of the world may be more evil than all the hitlers and the Maos imaginable


111 posted on 12/30/2013 11:59:16 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Its beginning to look a lot like Kwanzaa)
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To: Salman

The answer to the question is, of course it is. The problem is that all sexual orientations other than attraction to sexually mature people of the opposite sex are besetting temptations to grievous sins, which should be fought against by prayer and fasting, rather than “embraced” or “celebrated”, as is any variant of the normal sexual orientation which cannot be restrained to monogamy within the bounds of marriage.


112 posted on 12/30/2013 2:58:16 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: Sherman Logan
So you are a believer in thought-crime?

Nope....I'm a believer in entrapment. How do you like that?

Followed by "civil committment". How do you like that?

113 posted on 12/30/2013 8:08:55 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Sherman Logan

have you ever known a pedophile who DIDN’T act on their “inclination”? enough said.


114 posted on 12/30/2013 8:24:45 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: GraceG
It doesn’t matter whether it is natural or acquired. The child cannot consent. It is simply wrong and always will be.

Children cannot consent, animals cannot consent either...

Italy court overturns paedophile conviction as 11-year-old 'in love'


115 posted on 12/31/2013 12:28:36 PM PST by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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