Originally Posted by Jack_ (Post 5943357)

You're right on this one Mock.

Being a paedophile in the very definition of the word is not a psychological disorder, it's just socially unacceptable and highly unusual (much like most other types of paraphillia) and obviously must be difficult for anybody that is sexually attracted to children and has to (and does) refrain from acting on their urges, it only becomes a psychological issue when they are incapable of restraining themselves and go out and commit an obviously awful crime on a defenceless minor. The problem is is that you don't really get a lot of sympathy to those who can restrain themselves and don't act on their urges, and that side of it isn't really discussed much which I imagine only puts those people into a much more difficult position than they're already in...it's not as if you can 'come out' as a paedophile, the reaction would be one of sheer disgust, imagine how it must be feel to know you're attracted to people you shouldn't be and can't tell anyone and will most likely never be able to resolve it properly.

I made a thread about this a while back actually.

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...d.php?t=221535

Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 5943349)

why would you say that they don't want to commit a sex crime? obviously they did want to commit a sex crime. It's perfectly logical to assume that they would like to commit MORE sex crimes.

Oh i misread your comment, you are talking about people that have those urges but havn't done it yet? I guess i agree with you, but i don't think anyone with those urges is willing to submit themselves to any type of treatment. The stigma would be far to great, and once someone did admit to those urges, what happens if they go out and do it anyway? then the whole program would be discredited and everyone would blame the government for not locking those people up before they did commit the crime.

It would just take one person from that program to go out and rape or molest, and then the entire program would be under a firestorm of media criticism "WHY weren't these peadophiles looked up, why did the government not prevent this" etc etc... you can already imagine the Daily Mail headlines...

Originally Posted by Jack_ (Post 5943357)

You're right on this one Mock.

Being a paedophile in the very definition of the word is not a psychological disorder, it's just socially unacceptable and highly unusual (much like most other types of paraphillia) and obviously must be difficult for anybody that is sexually attracted to children and has to (and does) refrain from acting on their urges, it only becomes a psychological issue when they are incapable of restraining themselves and go out and commit an obviously awful crime on a defenceless minor. The problem is is that you don't really get a lot of sympathy to those who can restrain themselves and don't act on their urges, and that side of it isn't really discussed much which I imagine only puts those people into a much more difficult position than they're already in...it's not as if you can 'come out' as a paedophile, the reaction would be one of sheer disgust, imagine how it must be feel to know you're attracted to people you shouldn't be and can't tell anyone and will most likely never be able to resolve it properly.

I made a thread about this a while back actually.

http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...d.php?t=221535