Peadophilia

[navarre]

Now, jokes and insults aside, peadophilia is a serious matter. It's estimated there are 10,000 peadophiles in the UK, and it is a growing concern amongst Police. But, why should we be so judging to other people's attractions? I mean, personally I'm very attracted to mixed race women- gay men are very attrcated to men, and my friend is very attracted to older women (don't ask). The point is, we can't help what we're attracted to. I by no means condoning peadophilia, just trying to find your views on the subject matter.

 

If there was a peadophile down your road, would you stick a brick thorugh their window?

[nightwolf]

There's a huge difference between wanting to have sex with a mixed race and wanting to have sex with a child.

[Fresh]

.... there kids... There is a huge difference.

[MadDog]

Whats the point in the sex offenders register?

 

Soembody murders somebody, they dont put there name on a register. They go to prison. So should they.

[Charlie]

Whats the point in the sex offenders register?

 

Soembody murders somebody, they dont put there name on a register. They go to prison. So should they.

 

You get put on that for things which aren't criminal actions, a 17 year old pulling a 15 year old for example, is relatively normal, but if the parents complain then the 17 yo could be put on the list.

[navarre]

There's a huge difference between wanting to have sex with a mixed race and wanting to have sex with a child.

 

Yes, but their sexual attractions aren't hurting anyone unless they do go out and rape a child. Of the 10,000 peados in Britain, remember only a minority have ever acted on their feelings.

[nightwolf]

Yes, but their sexual attractions aren't hurting anyone unless they do go out and rape a child. Of the 10,000 peados in Britain, remember only a minority have ever acted on their feelings.

 

Most children won't understand what sex is, that could qualify as rape, christ having sex with a child, they haven't even hit puberty

[Daft]

Yes, but their sexual attractions aren't hurting anyone unless they do go out and rape a child. Of the 10,000 peados in Britain, remember only a minority have ever acted on their feelings.

 

Yeah but it is illegal to chat up a child, it isn't illegal to chat up someone of a different race or a gay person.

[Strider]

I can see what you meen about judging them based on attractions they can't really control, however like others have said there is a big difference between wanting to have sex with a kid compared to other sexual fetishes.

 

If there was a peadophile down your road, would you stick a brick thorugh their window?

 

There is a peadophile who lives on my street, opposite the park (coincidence much?) and his front window is always smashed.

[Emasher]

Last year I noticed one of my teachers had a folder on their desktop that was titled "C XXX". Latter that year we saw him creeping up behind a group of girls and trying to touch them, but then he saw us and stopped before they noticed. His name was Mr. Sebestiny(SP) but everyone called him Mr. Seb, we called him "The Sebophile" So throughout that year we left notes around his classroom (It was a computer lab just for the record) that said things like "Seb is a pedophile" and stuff like that. On the last day of school my friend and I tapped a note on his office door that read "Don't feed teh sebophile". I wish I could have seen the look on his face when he found it. We would have talked to the principal about it, however since the girls never new what he was trying to do, they wouldn't have believed us anyway. I hope he gets caught on "To Catch a Predator" one day.

[navarre]

Yeah but it is illegal to chat up a child, it isn't illegal to chat up someone of a different race or a gay person.

 

It was forty years ago.

[Emasher]

Yes, but their sexual attractions aren't hurting anyone unless they do go out and rape a child. Of the 10,000 peados in Britain, remember only a minority have ever acted on their feelings.

 

One of the other big problems related to this is child porn. You don't have to rape a child to have acted as a pedophile.

[Daft]

It was forty years ago.

 

Yeah but that is a completely different fricking context. That is about racial equality. Children can't vote for a reason, not letting non-white middle/upper class people vote is inexcusable.

[MadDog]

Last year I noticed one of my teachers had a folder on their desktop that was titled "C XXX". Latter that year we saw him creeping up behind a group of girls and trying to touch them, but then he saw us and stopped before they noticed. His name was Mr. Sebestiny(SP) but everyone called him Mr. Seb, we called him "The Sebophile" So throughout that year we left notes around his classroom (It was a computer lab just for the record) that said things like "Seb is a pedophile" and stuff like that. On the last day of school my friend and I tapped a note on his office door that read "Don't feed teh sebophile". I wish I could have seen the look on his face when he found it. We would have talked to the principal about it, however since the girls never new what he was trying to do, they wouldn't have believed us anyway. I hope he gets caught on "To Catch a Predator" one day.

haha awesome

[Tyson]

This is one of those few questions you just don't ask. It's like looking for reason to justify it.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Most children won't understand what sex is, that could qualify as rape, christ having sex with a child, they haven't even hit puberty

 

That's pretty much it. You have to remember that children are exactly that, children. They're still learning, and gaining life experience, as well as what is right or wrong. Now, I'd also say that because of this, children are also very vunerable, meaning that they're at very high risk from paedophiles. Especially when an older person shows them some attention, at an age where they're possibly just starting to get in tune with their feelings and their own body.

 

So, for that alone, I'd say it's wrong.

[Dyson]

Someone enlightened me recently. He said something about people being genetically attracted to men or women or same sex or something, and then said to bear with him and not to judge instantly, but what if it was the same with paedophiles?

 

It took some thinking about seriously but I do know what he means. Whilst I don't condone it at all maybe it's wrong to class these people as criminals out to damage the world and perhaps to see them as..mental patients? As in real mental patients who cannot help their 'disorder'. People who have something mentally wrong with them, but perhaps it isn't their problem they are attracted to children, like it isn't gay people's problem they are attracted to the same sex?

 

I realise this post will probably gain huge flaming but I urge you to give it just a little thought before condemning.

[Slaggis]

I really dislike the fact you're technically comparing someone that finds the same sex attractive to a peadophile. It's simple, there's nothing wrong with a man finding another man attractive and wanting to do something about it even though like you say this was once illegal. But we know there is obviously something incredibly wrong about someone finding a child sexually attractive, there's no question about that.

 

Would I throw a brick through their window if I knew where one lived? No. I think thats pointless behaviour.

[Shino]

True, they feel attracted to children and if its a mental condition or not is debatable, but an adult can always control its impulses and a child is an easy pray for a sexual predator, even those annoying 13 year old that think they're all grown up. They're easily influenced and can be manipulated into doing thing even if willingly. And that's why its a no-no.

[Dyson]

I really dislike the fact you're technically comparing someone that finds the same sex attractive to a peadophile. It's simple, there's nothing wrong with a man finding another man attractive and wanting to do something about it even though like you say this was once illegal. But we know there is obviously something incredibly wrong about someone finding a child sexually attractive, there's no question about that.

 

Would I throw a brick through their window if I knew where one lived? No. I think thats pointless behaviour.

 

I think the point navarre is making is that at one point people viewed homosexuality as we currently regard paedophilia - though I do know what you're saying as well in that we do know it is morally wrong to be attracted in that way to children, and not something anyone will agree with, unlike where with homosexuality there is consent, there isn't with paedophilia, and that is the basis of the problem.

[Paj!]

My P6 teacher was fired after one night, when he got tipsy with older boys (he was a housemaster of the boarding house part of the school), it was discovered that he had "unsuitable" pictures of children from school. I mean, he hadn't done anything to them, just had a disturbing amount of photos of them.

 

Then, exactly a week ago, I found out my old Youth Coordinator from the church I used to go to had left mysteriously in January, because he's facing a sentence, for being a member of an extreme child porn website.

 

Because I knew these people to be both nice and (fairly) normal people, I feel deeply sorry for them. The teacher was only on the sex offenders list, nothing else, thank god. But becasue the Youth Coordinator had paid for images of actual child sexual abuse, my feelings are mixed.

 

I sometimes think that yeah, we can't help what we're attracted to, but then the whoel abuse thing comes into it. It's all extremes.

[Shino]

Someone enlightened me recently. He said something about people being genetically attracted to men or women or same sex or something, and then said to bear with him and not to judge instantly, but what if it was the same with paedophiles?

 

It took some thinking about seriously but I do know what he means. Whilst I don't condone it at all maybe it's wrong to class these people as criminals out to damage the world and perhaps to see them as..mental patients? As in real mental patients who cannot help their 'disorder'. People who have something mentally wrong with them, but perhaps it isn't their problem they are attracted to children, like it isn't gay people's problem they are attracted to the same sex?

 

I realise this post will probably gain huge flaming but I urge you to give it just a little thought before condemning.

 

I agree with that line of thought, except for the part of the gay gene, I really doubt it exists.

 

I really dislike the fact you're technically comparing someone that finds the same sex attractive to a peadophile. It's simple, there's nothing wrong with a man finding another man attractive and wanting to do something about it even though like you say this was once illegal. But we know there is obviously something incredibly wrong about someone finding a child sexually attractive, there's no question about that.

 

Would I throw a brick through their window if I knew where one lived? No. I think thats pointless behaviour.

 

Other than showing your post 80s acquired morals, that's not really an argument.

[Dyson]

I agree with that line of thought, except for the part of the gay gene, I really doubt it exists.

 

Likewise - I must agree. I disagree there is a gene that makes us feel this way. What I would say is that it's whatever is is that makes people decide they are homosexual or straight or however sexually inclined, that makes people decide they are...attracted to children.

 

I feel worse and worse every time I post something in this topic, like I'm digging a hole..

[Dannyboy-the-Dane]

I really dislike the fact you're technically comparing someone that finds the same sex attractive to a peadophile. It's simple, there's nothing wrong with a man finding another man attractive and wanting to do something about it even though like you say this was once illegal. But we know there is obviously something incredibly wrong about someone finding a child sexually attractive, there's no question about that.

 

Would I throw a brick through their window if I knew where one lived? No. I think thats pointless behaviour.

 

But that's the thing: He's asking the question. I do in now way condone paedophilia, nor do I think it should be allowed. Children are in no way ready for that kind of thing, neither mentally nor physically, and so they shouldn't be involved in it. But I agree with Dyson, I believe it's all in the head. Per instinct, sexual attraction is aimed at reproducing, which means a 20 year old is per instinct more attractive than say a 50 year old. But we humans often find people/traits that are NOT optimal at reproducing, for example children, who cannot even reproduce yet. It is in no way more criminal to have that kind of philia than having, say, homophilia. The problems start when peadophiles cannot control their lusts and start acting them out in real life.

[Ellmeister]

Well peadophiles have done one thing correct, they helped to create the legendary "To catch a predator" program! So funny.

 

Otherwise, peadophilia is wrong, I don't have any stories to add either.