Isn't that just ignoring a problem, Dino? And besides, I don't think anyone who has children feels the same way. When you have children, that comes with a protective instinct. As a parent you can't just ignore something such as paedophilia. It get's to your heart because you have kids of your own. I wouldn't know how much it gets to your heart, since I don't have kids either, but I can imagine it.
Paedophiles are usualy the people you least expect it from. They don't stand out from others or anything. That's what makes the real extreme ones so dangrous. There isn't some standard that will say; Okay he's a dangrous pedo and he's not. So as soon as someone is linked to paedophilia people start making asumptions and then the rumors start. After the rumors have started and everything is blown out of proportions, you can't blame people to look at that person with a funny look. Even without the rumors the blowing out of proportion I can understand parents if they have second thoughts about letting their kids near someone who is linked to paedophilia, no matter in how small way.
For example, we all know you Dino. I wouldn't personaly believe that you downloaded that stuff for any other reason then research. But some random surfer who happends to stumble on the topic might go: Research? Ya right... puh, freak...
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'Twas an interesting read, although the 'Animals Are Not Children' was really dragged off of one fact. Regardless, some people still do rape animals; Not all 'zoophiles' can be generalized and put into the 'not hurting animals' catergory. Sort of like some paedophiles: They may not want to hurt children, but it arouses them.
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Ofcourse. It was never said that there is no such thing as animal rape. It was more of the point to show that rape is more of an exception then a standard.
But a zoophile, by definition, is someone who loves animals (Zoo - Animal. Phile - Love) and if someone then were to rape an animal, that wouldn't realy testify to love. So anyone raping an animal can't be called a zoophile in the first place. Their just animal abusers.
There just is one big diffrence between Zoophilia/bestiality and paedophilia. Bestiality has two sides. The loving side and the bad 'rape' side. Paedophilia only has one side.
You can't say; I did it because I loved the kid. That excuse MIGHT just go halfway if the 'victem' is above 15, as there are kids of that age that swear to love their much older lover. But in the end any sexual relation you have with a youngh child is taking advantage. Playing mindgames and the like. Even if the paedophile is absolutely certain he loves the child as any other would love an adult partner, then he should still have the ability to know that having sex with the child is taking it to far and that it is wrong. The fact that a lot of paedophiles don't understand or know that is IMO enough to qualify paedophilia as a mental disorder.