Acting on it is ALWAYS a choice. I don’t really give a fuck how a person is wired if they choose to exploit children in any way, including by possessing sexual imagery of kids.
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months agoI have heard that kids that molest kids or end up fooling around a super young age can make them grow up wired to be attracted to young kids or teens.
The real issue no one wants to address is people who have these desires and know it wrong have nowhere to turn to for help.
Even If they haven’t abuse anyone come out tell a therapist or someone you are attracted to kids will and probably can get you locked up. There are those who never affend but a lot do because either a) they accept what they are and have no moral objections to it or b) can’t get the help needed to fight the urges and end up offending.
As @Veraticus said there is no easy answer because it’s not a choice. Be like asking you why you like women or why people are gay. They wired that and unfortunately I don’t think you can cure it.
We definitely need to address access to any kind porn of it and if someone offends we must lock them away for their own good. Not saying prison but somewhere they can be mentally evaluated.
CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There is countless records of just that and even If there wasn’t what do you think would happen to your life if you came out and said you are a pedophile?
You think you keep your job, house. You think you be banned from living near a school? These people live in secret even the ones who don’t offend for reason.
Therapy can’t do much not like thier a cure. I don’t know your preferences but let me ask did you choose to be attracted that way? If yes then means you can choose to be attracted to the other sex. See your logic doesn’t hold up.
Instigate@aussie.zone 8 months ago
There is definitely a link between having experienced sexual abuse as a child without any therapy or counselling to help them make sense of it and then later on sexually abusing other children, but it’s not super clear-cut and definitely not predictable.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes same with girls who are raped or molested become promiscuous but doesn’t mean all girls in that situation will. Definitely why we need better sex education in America so we can teach kids the signs if an adult being inappropriate and learn about their own bodies.