Are paedophiles born that way?
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I do not think that they are born that way. Studies have shown that most were abused or watch some type of abuse in their homes...\nI do not think there is a cure for the sickness of touching on children...\nI think it is a waste of time to keep harboring these people in prison and then putting them back out on the streets to molest, rape, or worst kill children...Just about all molesters continue their acts of molesting once they are released form prison...\nI think that they should receive the death penalty for the acts...\nTHINK ABOUT IT...if a person committs murder they will receive a life sentence or if the crime is premediated..they could receive the death penalty...well...when a molester molests a child..the life as that child has known it has been taken a way...there innocence has been taken away..murdered...Some of these children do not grow up to lead successful lifes because they can not get rid of the thoughts of what has happened to them..They live in fear..This is why I feel molesters should receive life sentences or death penalty.
505439
Biologically predisposed? HELL NO!It's upbringing in a society filled with hypocrisy.This form of prejudice is just that prejudice.Where does prejudice come from? IGNORANCE!Why would anyone truly care how one has SEX?Why would you want that kind of control on how one lives their life?You have to think,every straight person does not have sex to procreate!If that was the case,why is there birth control?People don't stop having sex after children?IT'S ALL CONTROL!
308080
Not at all. These people need to be stopped before they hurt a child. If you are worried go back to the chat room and ask what they do to keep you safe. I don't think you can be traced by the paedo though because of data protection. If you are still worried, contact the police and explain the situation and say that you are worried about it. They will do everything they can to keep you safe.
42238
I would say it's a combination of genetic disposition (being born that way) and the environment one grows up in.  But as it is now, there has been minimal research done to prove whether one is born gay or not.  Of all the homosexuals I know personally, none have told me that they "chose" to be gay.
708818
Absolutely NOT! The vast majority of ALL sex offenders, including child molesters, commit the offense against someone they know well or against a family member.
550676
yeah. child molesters can have sex with girls their age but they choose to go for minors.
956381
No.\nChildren are born sinless and pure.
739769
Pedophiles are almost always self identified straight men, no matter who the victim happens to be.\nIt's about power and control.  Not so much about sex.
563597
In the case of both my partner and I, I would have to say we were probably swayed that direction from abuse.  I can still consider myself bi, but she is strictly lesbian---she often says keep that smelly, pointed thing away from me.  And as offspring in a house where my mother has been a foster parent for many years, I have seen many kids come with sexual abuse.  Many females become either asexual/nonsexual while others become whores.  Males become \nhomosexual in MANY cases---or predators.  These I've seen way too often, recently, scarily eerie.  Sad but true.
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I do not understand how a persons sexual preference has anything to do with the upbringing of children.  \n\nI am not gay, but my sexual preference being with my husband has nothing to do with how we raise our son.\n\nIf our son is gay, would we then be expelled as parents and have our child handed over to a gay couple?  Would they not be best to raise my son if he is gay and they are gay?  I am hetersexual so therefore I would only be given permission by society to bring up my heterosexual son but not a gay son?  \n\nPlease I do not understand this judgement.  I know that to be gay you are born gay.  The time the gay person takes to determine their sexual preference would be the same as a heterosexual takes to determine their own.  We mature at different rates or our morals and beliefs may hinder us from making any decision choosing to remain single for life, all because of anothers judgements.  I fail to see how this influences criminal behaviour.  If gays were so criminal then our prisons would only be filled with gays.  Not so. \n\nNo person can influence a sexual preference, but yes can certainly influence sexual behaviour.  Big difference I would say.  Many have been manipulated in to believing that they were gay when in fact they were not.  This is just another victim of self and then society.  We have choices, and being heterosexual or gay does not change the human factor of these choices.  We are who we are being not who we are doing.\n\nBlessings be yours in peace and light\nHarriett Potty ;)
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Some would argue that gay couples have to work harder to get a child to begin with, and so are more likely to appreciate the child in their world than an "oops baby" in a heterosexual family.\n\nThe following is focused on sexual abuse, see the link below for the full article:\n\n"There is no legitimate scientific research connecting homosexuality and pedophilia. Sexual orientation (homosexual or heterosexual) is defined as an adult attraction to other adults. Pedophilia is defined as an adult sexual attraction or perversion to children.7 In a study of 269 cases of child sex abuse, only two offenders where found to be gay or lesbian. More relevant was the finding that of the cases involving molestation of a boy by a man, seventy-four percent of the men were or had been in a heterosexual relationship with the boys mother or another female relative. The conclusion was found that "a child's risk of being molested by his or her relative's heterosexual partner is over one hundred times greater than by someone who might be identifiable as being homosexual."
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I don't know about "designed", but homosexuals ARE born that way.
942969
Probably a behavioral problem.....unless you believe sexual predators and child rapists are born with their  condition......We have grown up with so much sexual stimulation around us it is easy to believe it is genetic...remember people have been homosexual for years hence the term sodomy from Sodom and Gomorah, those cities had so much revelry and nastyness that God destroyed them
1017337
I have heard (from radio therapists, etc.) that it is completely normal for children to be curious that way.  Even that siblings under the age of ten usually have some sort of sexual interaction. I remember messing with the girl across the street.  Does that help?
331443
The Nature vs Nurture arguments are still raging on this topic.\n\nI think there is pretty good evidence that most gay people feel they were born that way.  I think that some people my choose a gay path due to their environment, but that is much rarer.
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I'm not judgmental and I won't quote the Bible. I've got a lot of friends who have heard or even experienced that! It's somethin' perfectly normal, the breast being full of nerve endings and highly sensitive. It can not be called pedophilia in any way! Those who think different better read some more before talkin'!
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Sir, I can speak from personal experience on this subject. I am a pedophile. Pedophilia is incurable, but it can be managed. Management is entirely dependant on the pedophiles personal conviction to not offend or reoffend. In my case I abused many times before I was caught commiting an offense. I was on probation and in psychothearpy from August 1992 until August 1999. I am not proud of what I did but I am proud to say that the last time I offended was in late 1991. I continue to this day to use many of the tools I was taught in my thearpy. I avoid being left alone with children, I don't go to places where there are large numbers of unattended children (ie; arcades, movie theaters, playgrounds, etc). When I see a child that is attractive to me I leave. When I think of a child in an inappropriate way I try to distract myself by becomming active in some other thought process. These are only a very few examples of how to avoid, control and escape potentially dangerous situations. It takes a great deal of practice to make it so it is almost second nature.\n \nThe thoughts I do have of children will likely continue for the remainder of my life. That is a given, by the treatment providers. The thoughts are not the problem though, it is what you do with them that matters. Fortunatly, I have been able to keep them under control, and pray that I will continue to do so.\n\nI expect that I will recieve some negitive feedback after posting this. I hope that those that hate me for what I have done in my past will consider that I have made sincere efforts to change my life. I cannot undo the past. I can only control my actions for the future.\n\nAs far as pedophilia being a mental disease it is. Please click the link below and read all three pages on this subject. The second page deals specifically wit the fact that it is a disease.\n\n Hope this all helps