Not every pedophile is a rapist.

[paulpablo]

First of all, I want to make clear I am not a pedophile, nor I am an expert in the topic. I honestly do not know if it is considered a psychiatric or psychologic disorder, but I believe you are born that way, except maybe for some extreme cases of people who have been abused.

I just want to put my opinion out there, because I believe this is a taboo topic nobody ever discusses.

Society usually hates pedophiles, and wants to see them crushed and dead. This is one of the reasons I believe pedophiles dont seek for professional help or help from relatives. They are afraid of being judged. 

This is why I believe that governments should invest in campaigns, informing to the general public what pedophilia is, and motivating pedophiles to seek for help. 

Now, some of you may be thinking "Protecting kids is the main priority", and it is. If you help pedophiles control their disorder (since we cant cure it as of right now), chances are they will not abuse kids. Therefore, the kids will be safe too.

Have you ever wondered, how many people you have met through your life have been pedophiles? Maybe they are even married, with kids. I think we all have, we just dont know about it. Maybe even some of your friends.

What do you think?  

Just to stick in a few of my thoughts on the subject.........

I don't get how you could come to the conclusion that pedophiles are either born that way or not. 

I have no proof either way but I feel like I've picked up my sexual preferences through my life rather than been born with them.  Not to be confused with my sexuality.  I'm talking about age preferences, look, personality types and so on.

I don't think there's a perfect age for people to begin having sex.  I do think outrage against having sex with prepubescent, or just not very well developed young people, is a good thing. 

I think it goes along with not hitting children and properly educating children as being a step forward in civilisation.

The campaigns that you think the government should spend money on informing the general public about what pedophilia is, why?

I can understand some campaigns in schools getting children informed about people might try to take advantage of them sexually, and what they should do about it and so on.

But campaigns informing what pedophilia is?  You would simply need leaflets saying "Pedophilia or paedophilia is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children"
But I don't see the point.

Anyway, I DEFINITELY recommend that you or anyone interested in this topic should watch a documentary, by Louis Theroux called "A place for Peadophiles"

It shows a place dedicated to trying to help out these offenders.  The impression that I personally got from the documentary is that help for the most part is false hope, the people there doing the helping didn't have a clue, Louis Theroux seemed to talk to them in a more intelligent way than the doctors did and observed more things about them.