(October 23, 2016 at 10:55 pm)Losty Wrote:Because like I said, if just being attracted to young-looking legal adults isn't enough for you, it has to be a child, then that's obviously what it is.(October 23, 2016 at 10:53 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Because a fetish is getting sexual gratification from a particular scenario or object, while a sexual orientation is the gender you are attracted to. That's not "semantic", they're very different things.
Liking the feeling of being in power over someone helpless during sex is not a sexual orientation.
What's the part I bolded got to do with pedophilia though?
I'm not saying I think pedophiles should be demonised and punished if they don't act on their... whatever the hell it is, I haven't said that at all. I'm simply saying why I don't consider it a real sexual orientation in the way that heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality is.
I do think it's a fetish and I do think it's a choice, because like I said I don't see how a) attraction to one specific age group works when you are outside that age group yourself, and b) why these people would be attracted specifically to someone under 18, but apparently not attracted to someone over 18 who looks under 18. I raise my eyebrows at that, I'm sorry.
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