[Jack_]

I'd say the large majority of people who are attracted to children are in this position, it's just the media like to blow things out of proportion and so as a result as a society we aren't actually able to look into this in depth and have a proper discussion about it because let's be honest, if you are to speak up in what is effectively a defence of a paedophile, you'd be looked at as a freak and it just makes you look suspicious

Being attracted to children doesn't mean that person is going to act on their urges, because regardless of who their victim is it's a sex crime, and to commit one of those against anyone means you have to not be totally right in the head. I've read stuff like this before and part of me feels sad for them because it really can't be easy knowing you're attracted to something you shouldn't be and you can't do anything about it, yet you have to spend your life resisting urges that for the majority of people they don't have to, it really can't be easy