(October 24, 2016 at 3:54 am)robvalue Wrote: We only know about offenders. No one is coming forward to say they are a paedophile, so we have literally no idea how many are out there. So we would be concluding there are next to zero paedophiles in the world keeping quiet and not abusing. I don't find that reasonable, I find it highly improbable.
That's exactly my point. Given the inbuilt inefficiencies of law enforcement, and the reticence of victims to speak up, the odds are that, as Thena implied, there are a lot more pedophiles out there who act out their drives than we actually know about.
How might you encourage pedophiles to admit this urge of theirs, given the opprobrium attached to acting it out? There's the nub.
