Is pedophilia a sexual orientation?

The Toronto Star ^ | Dec 22 2013 | Laura Kane

[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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[bgill]

The answer to the headline; yes, and so is philandering, sodomy, bestiality, addiction to porn, incest....

Each one of those will demand their own school restrooms.

[Fred Nerks]

Simply stated, the preferential child molester is a pedophile who has carried his fantasies and desires into reality...

Note: the clever use of language; a pedophile only has fantasies, the real culprit is the preferential child molestor. (That's why you can't talk about punishment for a pedophile, because he's only thinking about it!)

Barf and puke.

[SECURE AMERICA]

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

So? Homosexual was deemed a mental illness and a CRIME hundreds of years and now we are told it is normal and we have to accept it.......

[ReformationFan]

The pedophile “rights” crowd will use the same arguments to get their agenda advanced.

To paraphrase La Shawn Barber, would the average black, churchgoing, Bible-believing Christian who peacefully marched back in the 1950s to make lives better for themselves and their children and grandchildren ever have thought their cause would later be warped to justify males “marrying” males and eventually pedophiles abusing children?

[rfp1234]

...to be closely followed by zoophilia, dendrophylia, and lithophylia.

[Duckdog]

And when the rats try to make it legal, will they is some sick and twisted way tell us “It's for the children”? You know how they are always using that line. I'm not trying to be funny.

[montanajoe]

Many older men attracted to young women (adults over 18) are labeled pedophiles.

It seems to me to protect children society needs to stop throwing around the term so loosely.

[Mark was here]

The real question is if society has the guts to call them defective?

[Fred Nerks]

...Many older men attracted to young women (adults over 18) are labeled pedophiles.

Really now? Give me some examples. Where I come from we call them silly old fools and there's no lack of them.

[redpoll]

>>>This is where homosexuality was, not that long ago.<<<

True.

[montanajoe]

I’m glad you don’t call them pedophiles, many from places you don’t come from do...

Children need to be protected, and you get no argument from me on that, calling old farts liking a young woman of legal age, pedophiles, doesn’t protect a single child.

I know for many the yuk factor makes them prone to exaggeration it doesn’t help

[Albion Wilde]

imagine thus clown..studying...doing research on perverts...for an entire decade? if I didnt have much in the way of common sense or any moral underpinnings to speak of.. that alone would tell me enough about his fascination....with the “subject” to discount eveything he had to say.

Well said. It's like Kinsey, the pedo pervert, or like some psychiatrists, the ones who go into the field because they need therapy themselves.

[Fred Nerks]

Right you are...silly old farts who have fantasies about attractive young women don't kidnap little boys and girls, rape and sometimes kill them. Pedophiles do.

[prairiebreeze]

That many? I don't think so.

Well, I'm not so sure. Have you ever checked out an online sexual offender list for your (or any) neighborhood? The vast majority of the offenders will likely involve minors.

[montanajoe]

Sorry pal..I don’t have the inclination to inject logic into a zealots mind. Have a good evening

[Shadowstrike]

Yes it IS a crime, Yes it SHOULD be a crime, and they need to be HUNG.

Or are you so defensive because you are one?

[lulu16]

ping

[Wilhelm Tell]

Yes, we can see where this is going. Pedophilia will be redefined as a lifestyle or choice. Only the children who will be preyed upon won’t have a choice but that won’t matter to the powers that be. It will first be cautiously promoted as something that is no big deal and not really harmful - they will say its just another way to love. Then it will be loudly promoted as a wonderful lifestyle and we will be told it is good for children. If this does not provoke a massive revolt, then this country deserves the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.

[ReformationFan]

“Yes, we can see where this is going. Pedophilia will be redefined as a lifestyle or choice. Only the children who will be preyed upon won’t have a choice but that won’t matter to the powers that be. It will first be cautiously promoted as something that is no big deal and not really harmful - they will say its just another way to love. Then it will be loudly promoted as a wonderful lifestyle and we will be told it is good for children. If this does not provoke a massive revolt, then this country deserves the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Sad but true.

[Fred Nerks]

So I take that pedophiles don’t ever kidnap and murder children in the US? Is that what you are trying to say?