Not every pedophile is a rapist.

[Angrboda]

I think it does involve will and decision. Let's entertain the idea, you've got someone who for whatever reason is attracted to child-like features. Why don't they just find themselves an Ariana Grande or a Josh Hutcherson, a legal adult who happens to have young-looking features? There are plenty of adults like that out there these people can aim for, but instead it has to be a child? That's what I mean when I say it's a fetish. If an old adult (who doesn't emotionally/personally connect to teenagers at their age) is going beyond it being a physical thing and actually wants a child partner, it's because they get off to the feeling of having sexual power over someone inexperienced with sex. That's a fetish, not a sexuality.

Despite your hypothetical, which is largely irrelevant, calling it a fetish rather than a sexuality seems like a pointless semantic argument. What is hetrosexuality for a woman other than a fetish for a particular sex of human. One person's fetish is another's sexuality. Ignoring this semantic argument for the moment, what attributes would pedophilia have to possess to be considered a sexual orientation?

"Consensus now exists that pedophilia is a distinct sexual orientation, not something that develops in someone who is homosexual or heterosexual." ~ http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter...pedophilia