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originally posted by: Abysha
a reply to: Winstonian
I'm okay with heterosexuality but pedophilia is not something that needs to be normalized. I knew this would happen, though. Once we allowed heterosexuals to run amok, pedophiles will want recognition next.
On a serious note, the danger of this is in not emphasizing the need for psychotherapy if a person has these feelings. If a man has these feelings and he seeks help and realizes his "attractions" are not safe or healthy, I don't think I could "hate" them. Pedophilia is not a valid way to but these people were often victimized themselves. These people need professional help.
Bringing it up in media could actually be a good thing as long as the focus remained on a solution as opposed to acceptance.
This is not like the other sexual orientations where the participants are not victims, by default. Pedophilia is impossible to practice without victimization of other people. It needs to be treated, not fed.
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
originally posted by: Abysha
a reply to: Winstonian
I'm okay with heterosexuality but pedophilia is not something that needs to be normalized. I knew this would happen, though. Once we allowed heterosexuals to run amok, pedophiles will want recognition next.
On a serious note, the danger of this is in not emphasizing the need for psychotherapy if a person has these feelings. If a man has these feelings and he seeks help and realizes his "attractions" are not safe or healthy, I don't think I could "hate" them. Pedophilia is not a valid way to but these people were often victimized themselves. These people need professional help.
Bringing it up in media could actually be a good thing as long as the focus remained on a solution as opposed to acceptance.
This is not like the other sexual orientations where the participants are not victims, by default. Pedophilia is impossible to practice without victimization of other people. It needs to be treated, not fed.
There is no 'cure'. You're saying the same thing as those people who think they can cure someone from being gay.
Impossible.
Ok maybe. But isn't consenting to sexual relations with an adult a choice more than determining ones own gender identity? This is important becaues the argument is that those below 18 cannot make a rational choice pertaining to consenting to sexual relations--thus the need to restrict them. Gender identity isn't a choice so it makes sense a 3 year old could do that "rationally" or fullfill diagnostic criteria.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: jonnywhite
Current science when it comes to social sciences changes on a whim to suit the agenda these days. There are plenty of things that the current science didn't used to support than many now say it does.
originally posted by: SprocketUK
I wonder how long it'll be until the first person trying to protect their kids is charged with a hate crime...
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
a reply to: Abysha
"Treatment"?
"Stay away from children, their entire vicinity, don't even look at one, or get knocked out. Period"
That's the treatment.
originally posted by: KingKelson
I don't know how y'all feel about them, but I remember Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin predicted this would happen during the gay marriage debate a couple of years ago.
As to the article, absolutely disgusting. I don't know what else I can say.
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
You have every right to be a Pedophile, I have every right to stay away from you and keep an eye on you, and warn you if you get close to children.
"Normalizing" or discussing the Pros and Cons, philosophizing the issue until it becomes part of 'mainstream', is unacceptable.
I don't care if you have a story or reasoning or validations.
When I first heard about the behavior from a marine biologist friend of mine, I didn’t quite believe sea otters could be so diabolical. Maybe the bad behavior was just a rumor. But no, the strange sea otter attacks on baby seals are a reality and have even made their way into the technical literature. In 2010, California Department of Fish and Game biologist Heather Harris and colleagues reported 19 individual cases of male sea otters trying to mate with, and often fatally injuring, harbor seal pups in the Monterey Bay, Calif. area between 2000 and 2002 alone.
Delivered in the scientific deadpan required of such papers, the Aquatic Mammals report attributes the incidents to three male sea otters “observed harassing, dragging, guarding, and copulating with harbor seals,” persisting for up to seven days after the otters killed the objects of their misguided advances. The ordeal must have been horrific for the seals. The victims that were necropsied by veterinarians had lesions around the nose, eyes, flippers, and genitals, including perforations in the vaginal and rectal tracts. A painful and confusing end for the poor pups.
originally posted by: Sargeras
originally posted by: BatheInTheFountain
You have every right to be a Pedophile, I have every right to stay away from you and keep an eye on you, and warn you if you get close to children.
"Normalizing" or discussing the Pros and Cons, philosophizing the issue until it becomes part of 'mainstream', is unacceptable.
I don't care if you have a story or reasoning or validations.
You do not have a right to be a pedophile, it is in fact 100% illegal in the US!