(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.
This is nothing more than a case of self serving definitions. Traditionally acknowledged sexual orientations involve sexual attraction to a sex or sexes. That is not what makes it a sexual orientation. If we're to set the traditional orientations in brackets and ask what makes them unique above and beyond pedophilia, presenting a definition of sexual orientation that can only apply to traditional sexual orientations is simply sidestepping the question. I could equally well argue that a sexual orientation is a non-volitional attachment to a particular class of individuals as objects of sexual gratification, and thereby side step your self serving definition. All you've done is make more semantic distinctions.
(October 23, 2016 at 10:53 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Liking the feeling of being in power over someone helpless during sex is not a sexual orientation.
What is your evidence that this is the primary gratification for the pedophile? How do you know that a pedophile doesn't feel genuine sexual attraction to children?