I hope I don't catch flak for this, but part of me feels bad for adults attracted to minors that DON'T want to be. Like fuck shameless pedophiles that actively prey on children, but I'd image there's also people out there who quietly live with the disorder and fucks their life up. There was a documentary I watched by Louis Theroux once about a special prison just for pedophiles and it was kind of sad. Like it's obvious they weren't getting the help they needed inside and it was just a place to hold them so they wouldn't be murdered in prison. The only real way out was voluntary chemical castration and come on that's pretty barbaric.

It sucks you can't approach or talk about these people without the baggage of violent pedophiles who actually hurt people.

idk hope I'm not too off base here.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 8 points 2 weeks ago

If you want to reduce occurences of abuse I think it would make good sense to make sure that pedophiles had easy and anonymous access to non-judgemental therapy. We would like as many as possible to seek professional help.

As for those actually convicted of abuse the same principle applies, they need help, not just for their own sake but certainly also for the children's sake.

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