(November 9, 2017 at 1:53 pm)Shell B Wrote: Wait, if you commit a sexual offense against a child, you're a pedophile. I don't care if the person says they're usually attracted to women or whatever. You clearly have a sexual attraction, however perverse or involving dominance or some other aspect that apologists will use to mitigate the pedophilia, to children. That said, I agree that not all pedophiles are offenders, not that I've ever met one who isn't, but I can make a logical assumption there.
No, that's why it's not called pedophilia by the law. In a medical context, all pedophilia means is a primary sexual attraction to pre-pubescents. Most people use the slang version of pedophilia though, which means a person who has or is actively trying to do something sexual with people up to the age of 17, but that's just slang. It's not a technical definition. Going by the technical definition, pedos are blamed for thousands of crimes they do not commit, and pedo is being used pretty much as an equal term to rapist, when most pedos probably don't rape and never will.
Research suggests that whether one offends or not has a lot to do with the gray matter in the brain. There was a thread about this a few months back on AF.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5534964/
