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originally posted by: Domo1
a reply to: markosity1973
Relax bro, the guy was just babysitting a little girl and had to pleasure himself in the bathroom. We're the scary monsters for not supporting him.
originally posted by: Domo1
a reply to: Gryphon66
Trans* adults CAN consent to sex with another adult.
Yeah and if they're gay they should be included in LGB.
So what about people with peculiar fetishes? They can consent, should they all be added in too?
originally posted by: WhateverYouSay
The only benefit I could see would be cultural discussion about what to do about these people. By that I mean pedophiles that have not acted out. Perhaps how people having a psychotic break can be involuntarily sent to a psychiatric hospital for counseling. A place where they can be sequestered and treated without the harsher conditions of prison.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Domo1
I've heard so many arguments when gay marriage was an issue that the next thing would be pedophilia acceptance.
Gay folks were justifiably outraged.
But here we are, in this very thread, two people who just think it's a sexual preference.
SICK!
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: ketsuko
They'll never support pedophile priests, that'd be too much for them.
originally posted by: reldra
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: Bone75
originally posted by: Annee
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Annee
Why Annee ... how intolerant of you! I'm surprised.
This one, pedophila (all the 'philas of minors) will have a victim if acted upon. That makes a difference. Can not accept the act.
That attitude, btw, sounds perilously close to the Christian line on homosexuality. The act is the sin. The person is not a monster or anything else; they are merely a tempted sinner as are we all.
No it doesn't.
I accept pedophila as a hard wired sexual orientation. Born that way.
Just I accept all of LGBT orientations and Gender Dysphoria that are hard wired. Born that way.
Their brain tells them who they are. Just as my brain tells me who I am.
One orientation will have a victim if acted upon. The ACT is illegal for a reason.
So would you support removing it from the DSM?
I don't know. I was on the boards when scientists (not sure if same ones) presented pedophilia as an orientation.
There was major backlash from the Religious Right. They then retracted, and reworded it.
Science/research is funded by grants. Can't piss off the "granters". This is one money conspiracy I actually watched happen in real time.
That is true. At one point they listed is as an orientation, but I know they didn't mean for it to be acted out. It was later clarified.
Indeed it is an orientation, that is what the person is oriented to, but it is not acceptable, mentally. It is a disorder, a mental disease.