1 to 5 percent?
That many? I don't think so. And once they start talking about percentages (accurate or otherwise), it's a small step to be talking about quotas.
What they “think” is based on their politics. For leftists everything, EVERYTHING, is political and lies are useful for them.
We are all borg.
Probably not even a tenth of that.
This is where homosexuality was, not that long ago.
It doesn’t matter whether it is natural or acquired. The child cannot consent. It is simply wrong and always will be.
>>It’s now thought that about 1 to 5 per cent of men are pedophiles, meaning they are primarily attracted to children.<<
And society will get along just fine if these men are executed on the same day they are found guilty of being a pedophile.
The answer to the headline; yes, and so is philandering, sodomy, bestiality, addiction to porn, incest....
Sin is something fabricated by those pesky Christians. All myths and legends.
Yes, pedophilia is a sexual orientation. People who are pedophiles are ‘sexually oriented’ towards children.
That does not shield it from criticism as abhorrent, evil, disgusting, wrong, and against nature.
If I am culinarily oriented toward human flesh, I can’t declare being Hannibal Lecter is my human right.
The ultimate truth that this all proves is that illness or uncontrollable desires are NO excuse for your actions when judged on ethical grounds. Homosexuality just like pedophilia can and should be judged beyond the clinical field of psychiatry, and into the ethical courtroom, where both are shown to be abhorrent carnal acts against nature.
“However, we are left with the alarming question: if some men are born pedophiles, what should society do with them?”
Kill them. Just like rape this does not involve 2 consenting adults.
It’s not sexual orientation, it’s sexual perversion and sexual predation.
Is murder a "social interaction"?
/s
(mutter, mutter, mutter... "Nuke 'em all, let God sort them out!")
Oh Lord, give me grace & wisdom to deal with idiots like this!
Raped young boys tend to become homo pedophiles. Stop the loop of child abuse you will slow down the amount of new pedophiles
It is the small percentage like when dealing with a plant that has a few partly dead leaves that one must prune off of it to make the whole plant healthier.
Pedos, both rast and phile should be Pruned with judicious haste.
I am sick to death of pervs and their sexual demands
may all their weenies shrivel up and fall off
it’s in the same class as homophilia.
This goes beyond what is or isn’t a sexual orientation.
It goes to the core of what is right or wrong.
We had moral codes.
Then we had moral relativism.
Now we have ‘born with it’.
We are on the verge of everything being okay. It’s not anyone’s fault how they were born. Who’s to say what is natural or not?
Thus there should be not moral codes whatsoever.
Watch out Christians. You’re soon to be public enemy number one, you judgmental criminals.
Lobotomize them.
“Is pedophilia a sexual orientation?”
Depends on how many votes you can get out of them.
I don’t think they are born that way. I believe anyone could molest children for their own sexual pleasure theoretically and it is morality and goodness that stops good people from doing so.
I think that any man alive today, if he had been born thousands of years ago when girls were given to wed at 13, could have married and consummated with his new wife. It is our social mores, longer lives, understanding of what a mature female is, etc, keeping good men from engaging with underage girls. Men are turned on by youth, beauty, and innocence. Young girls often have all three.
I know a pedophile principal who is awaiting trial. He started molesting with young teens, and kept going younger and younger for his thrills. Some of his current victims for which he has been arrested now are preschool aged. He wasn’t “born” a pedophile. He was just sick enough to not stop where morality, religion, and society told him to stop, and then he pushed farther and farther down the evil path.