Could Paedophilia be a sexual orientation?

lauren

lauren

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It has come to my attention in local newspapers and on the Internet that Paedophilia is being discussed as possible a sexual orientation and that paedophiles simply cannot help their feelings/thoughts.

Do you agree?
Is it a sexual orientation, a mental illness or something other?
 
Sexual orientation or not, the fact remains that when they act upon it, it is with people too young to understand what's going on.
 
It may be a sexual orientation but it's still wrong to act on it. If someone presents themself as a paedophile, then they should be offered help imo.
 
Lauren said:
It has come to my attention in local newspapers and on the Internet that Paedophilia is being discussed as possible a sexual orientation and that paedophiles simply cannot help their feelings/thoughts.
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Yeah, the other orientations get those uncontrollable thoughts too.
We call that rape.

Paedophilia may be an orientation, but those children are too young.
 
I like the idea that if they can't help it and haven't done anything wrong, they should be allowed to step forward and get help. If its a mental illness, people shouldn't be too scared to ask for help and let it make them act. People have suicidal/homocidal tendencies and they're treated, perhaps the same should be available for paedophiles who have commited no crime and clearly want help not to.

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Also if its an orientation...is it just specific or don't they like adults at all? It seems to unlikely it's an orientation to me.
 
This is a subject which I really try to face with an unbiased point of view; but I find myself pretty much failing, I think. Simply because, emotionally, I never even want to accept such a thing is justified.

Alright so. Pedophilia equals rape, in the way that a child would never consent to it because it doesn't even know what it is; the body isn't ready for such things.
If there are really people who feel attracted to babies and children, then I do feel sorry for them. But I cannot rationalize how that can be natural, or justified by their genes or something. For me, it equals mental illness, although I have absolutely no scientific evidence for this!

I can only compare it to animals. I'm not saying they rape youngsters, but for instance, male lions kill their enemy's offspring so their mothers can focus on raising his babies instead. This is not rape, but it's a way of dominating and making sure a line of birth is safe.
I don't know if it can be a fetish? Ugh. Maybe the idea of a helpess child totally turns a pedophile on? I don't know. Even if they manage to fight these feelings off and not succumb to them, I just... can't... accept it. For obvious reasons >.<

But a sexual orientation - as its name suggests, means a certain attraction to a certain gender/sex. And since children/babies are not genders/sex, it cannot be one; unless we change the definition of 'sexual orientation' but... yeah, you get the idea.
 
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