Not every pedophile is a rapist.

[paulpablo]

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.

This would be the point in the campaigning I think. To get more people involved. More research. More learning. To urge people to come out without fear so we can learn about them, try to understand where the flaw is in the way their brains work, and figure out a real solution. Teaching kids how to be safe isn't a solution to pedophilia. It's a protection against child molestation. It's important and we should keep doing it but it's nothing to do with actually addressing pedophilia which I think really could be addressed if we put some effort into trying.

So then the money should be taken out of that campaign to tell people about what pedophilia is and put into research into what it is.  It wouldn't be much use of the government to tell us all about pedophiles when no concrete research results have concluded anything yet. Apart from the definition and a few correlations between peadophiles and certain traits.

There's probably a lot of money going towards that general area of research, sexual behaviour, brain patterns, scans.