If there was cure for pedophilia would you take it?

[BLueRibbon]

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[TheDude]

There is no cure. Pedophilia is not an illness.

Pedophilia is simply a broader age-spectrum of sexual attraction that for some people expresses itself as a preference.

Nor is it an "orientation" as this word represents the idea of polarity, the coexistence of opposites, which in sexuality there are two: hetero and homo. Age preference does not equal orientation.

We like what we like and that is that.

My core preferences solidified themselves in early childhood, fully crystalizing in my early teens, and this is how it is for most. Very rarely do we discover new sexual interests in adulthood.

[PedoPride]

No, I'm proud to be what I am.

[John_Doe]

I would not choose to not be attracted to pubescent preteens/teens or young women if I could but I would choose to be attracted to middle-aged and elderly women. It would be great if I could choose to be attracted to women who aren't my type physically in general (it would be a huge advantage for me but in some bizarro world where a woman was attracted to me when I wasn't attracted to her, I would want her to benefit from having an intimate relationship with me as well even if I had other options. I truly wish that unrequited attraction did not exist).

If I chose to not be attracted to someone I am attracted to it would be because of their personality (i.e. their being cruel, sadistic, callous or inconsiderate; basically someone who doesn't value the happiness of others). It's inconvenient to be wired in a way that makes someone a potential source of both happiness and stress for you (so the stress you feel toward their personality blocks the felt natural attraction and the pleasure you could feel from intimacy with them which is a problem because that has the effect of desensitizing you to the physical traits they share with more likable people that make them both sexually attractive).

[ReArm!]

Just wondering? Me probably yeah but then again something's were special so yeah.

I think I maybe would, if it was reversible it would be an absolute yes, I'm even thinking ab going to therapy and such. It's not because I think it's immoral or smth like that, but because I don't wanna end up in prison, tbh, and I think that in a few years when I'm legally an adult, if a teen wanted to have something w me, idk if I'd have the willpower to deny myself. So yeah I would do it just for self control and bc well, revolution can't happen behind prison bars (lol)

[CantChainTheSpirit]

No, never.

I love that side of who I am. It took many years to learn to love it but I did and now I consider it being responsible for many of the personal qualities I admire most. If I wasn't a map I think I'd be a worse person overall.

[peepeed]

Society needs curing, not us.

Agreed. Very much. The quest should be if there was to a pill to cure society of antis, would you take it? Yes

[PorcelainLark]

It's so central to who I am, I feel like a Lark who wasn't a pedophile wouldn't be me.

[bnkywuv]

No. It may diminish my love and protective nature for children. Why would I risk endangering that?

We don't need cures. We need to cure the child hating, sex shaming, hedonophobic society we live in.

[Scorchingwilde]

Per the wording of the post, it wouldn't even matter to me as a hebephile. Minor attraction in general? It'd leave me near-aromantic and asexual and with my level of cynicism and lack of platonic attraction I think it'd on the whole hurt me unless it was a 'convert or die' forced situation, and that's not even getting into the fact that society is the issue rather than the orientation. Also, if it were for minor-attraction as a whole I imagine such a mythic cure would also take away some teliophiles' orientations too given the existence of older minors.