Or Fat Mat.

...oh hey, seems like I forgot to check this topic for a while. Anything new since my last post?

*takes a look*

oh god.

You think that's bad? I've been away since Thursday. Also, Chris Morris.

Oh, so could you make a TL;DR version? Awesome!

Yes. Peadophiles are good people and child molesters are horrible and Chris Morris is better than Chuck Norris.

Clearly an accurate and impartial summary of the thread's content.

yeah. paedo's are good people. let's give them all big, sloppy kisses and send them on their way, the rascals.

I hate this thread and I want it to go away.

Again that's a pretty big assumption. If they are capable of sexual arousal would they not also be capable of understanding sexual desire if they were explained what the arousal means? For that matter, isn't sexual arousal and desire basically the same thing in this context?

You are right, that wasn't the most appropriate collection of examples. Though I do have an interesting observation when asking people what they think about zoophilia. Roughly half the people will tell you it's not their cup of tea, but have no objection as long as the animal isn't being hurt/enjoying itself. The other half will tell you it's flat out disgusting and animal abuse. The original point I was trying to make being that there is no uniform opinion on either subject (pedo or zoo). The law might make both illegal, but many different people have many different opinions.

Yet it is nature that creates the sexual attraction to begin with. So that creates somewhat of a problem with your theory. One could wonder if there is some sort of evolutionary reason for pedophilia to emerge or if it may not be as unnatural as people seem to believe. I think there are plenty of animals that show signs of sexual interest long before they are sexually mature.

No-one willingly labels themselves. But I'm sure there comes a point in a pedo's life where he can't ignore the facts anymore. There's no point in pretending to be something your not (or pretending to not be something you are). That doesn't mean they go public with that information, just that they have decided to come to terms with their situation.

Regardless of how the relationship between the two developed (natural, with 'consent' or by manipulation), what if the child genuinely enjoyed the interaction, continued to enjoy the interaction for as long as it lasted and had happy memories of the interaction years down the line? Would you believe that insisting he/she was abused and raped is a good thing? You're essentially taking a good memory and turning it into a nightmare just because you believe that's how it happened.

It's good to discuss controversial topics every now and again even if the majority of people are completely against it. The discussion allows for some insights people might otherwise not have on their own. I'm a big believer in thinking for yourself and having your own opinion instead of blindly assuming that the opinion of the masses must be the right one. If my controversial topics and questions get you to think and consider things you didn't consider before then I've done my part.

Out of sight, out of mind. :happy:

You know you could always just not open the thread?

On second thoughts I'll leave this until tomorrow.

On my 18th birthday, when I reached adultery, I had a sexual attraction to a girl one month younger than me and therefore, not adult. Was I a paedophile? Where's the line?

If the age of consent is 18 where you live you would technically be a pedophile I suppose. Though the more accurate definition would be ephebophile since she's a teenager.

In reality of course it shouldn't matter since the age difference is negligible, but 18 year olds have been arrested, charged and even jailed for sleeping with a 17 year old. Not to long ago I believe there was a case where an 18 year old guy was convicted of producing child pornography because his 17 year old girlfriend sent him erotic pictures of herself which he had on his cell phone.

There's a decent amount of places that allow some level of cushion when it comes to sexual relations around the legal adult age. It's usually about a ~3 year difference if you're a legal adult and your partner is underage. You should probably check your country's consent laws.

Also, pedophilia is being attracted to children. Older teens aren't children and they rarely have the body of one.

Semi related, I had a friend I met when he was 13. He called himself a pedophile openly because he was sexually active and mostly attracted to children and child-like people. He didn't understand why people would lash out at him because of it. After all, this word did describe his attractions almost perfectly. Realize, he had JUST turned 13 years old and he had not yet hit puberty. Years later, long after he had, he had no sexual desires towards children or child-like people at all anymore. He's attracted to people who are sexually mature and the thought of being attracted to a child disgusts him.

There are still people far older than him that KNEW how old he was at the time he was going around that condemn him for being attracted to kids while he himself was a kid.

I'm pretty certain that for people who remain attracted to children long after reaching sexual maturity, whatever switch was supposed to flip to make you more attracted to other sexually mature people never flipped.

Still ongoing cognitive development?

lol

stupid questions get stupid answers.

giraffe.

honestly, some of you guys would argue the colour of fucking shite. it's almost commendable. but not in this case.

thanks MA

Once I saw a white dogshit. I'm not even kidding. Solid white.

That comes from a dog that was fed bones.

I once saw some fox shit that had an intact pigeon intestine trailing out of the end. That thing really ought to chew its food.

As for the other thing, I was using "desire" as shorthand for "intent to manipulate a person of interest so as to make them sexually available to you". You know, like I said in the bit of the post Havoc obviously didn't read.

lol havuc u so crazee

You have no idea.