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What we can learn from non-offending persons with pedophilia
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2026 10:45 pm
by Jim Burton
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog ... on-of-risk
Preventing child sexual abuse is a critical social priority.
Understanding the lives of persons with pedophilia who do not sexually offend can improve treatment.
Persons with sexual attractions to children may prevent criminal behavior by separating attraction and action.
Re: What we can learn from non-offending persons with pedophilia
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2026 12:14 am
by OnionPetal
Persons with sexual attractions to children may prevent criminal behavior by separating attraction and action.
Where would we be without over-credentialed academics stating the obvious?
[...] persons whom they describe as “minor-attracted persons (MAPs).” Although I do not use that term, and prefer to identify these attractions as symptomatic of the sexual disorder of pedophilia [...]
Instantly discredits himself. If this PhD is so biased by his own preferences, then his 'professional opinions' are about as valuable as raw sewage.
Re: What we can learn from non-offending persons with pedophilia
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2026 12:30 am
by Kierkegaard
Instantly discredits himself. If this PhD is so biased by his own preferences, then his 'professional opinions' are about as valuable as raw sewage.
He's not even correct according to mainstream psychiatric consensus. The DSM-V does not consider pedophilia to be intrinsically disorderly. It distinguishes between pedophilia and pedophilic disorder based on the presence of distress and/or action. If any of these people being profiled are "non-offending" and do not find their attraction to be innately distressing, they would not qualify for a diagnosis of pedophillic disorder.
Re: What we can learn from non-offending persons with pedophilia
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2026 1:29 am
by Jim Burton
these attractions [are] symptomatic of the sexual disorder of pedophilia [...] not all persons with such attractions are necessarily dangerous or unhealthy
There's the contradiction in the liberal position on pedophilia - single sentence, not even a period or a line break.
Re: What we can learn from non-offending persons with pedophilia
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2026 1:56 am
by weird.organisms
Kierkegaard wrote: Thu Aug 13, 2026 12:30 am
Instantly discredits himself. If this PhD is so biased by his own preferences, then his 'professional opinions' are about as valuable as raw sewage.
He's not even correct according to mainstream psychiatric consensus. The DSM-V does not consider pedophilia to be intrinsically disorderly. It distinguishes between pedophilia and pedophilic disorder based on the presence of distress and/or action. If any of these people being profiled are "non-offending" and do not find their attraction to be innately distressing, they would not qualify for a diagnosis of pedophillic disorder.
Oh but according to the antis we're ALL mentally disturbed and need harsh cruel "treatment"!
