Pedofiles: is society being too harsh?

[Arxces]

Originally Posted by Tipsy

A pedophile is someone who is attracted to children - nothing more, nothing less. Pedophilia does not always involve rape. A young person in many places can consent to having sex with someone considerably older than themself. If that is their personal preference, whether you agree it with it or not, why shouldn't they be allowed to have sex? Just because you or I happen to disagree with someone's sexual practices why should that stop them if it is consensual? Pointed out earlier in the thread, people have the legal ability to make the choice as early as 14 in some places.

I'm inclined to agree. Paedophilia is a matter of ethics. What is NOT a matter of ethics is the legal issue surrounding the exploitation of children by the paedophiles. It is the exploitation of children that is enraging society today, not just the fact that some adults are sexually attracted to children. It is illegal for paedophiles (or anyone for that matter) to perform any sexual act towards children under the age of consent, as they are judged by the law to lack the capacity and judgmental faculty to make the correct decision. In this case child molestation acts just like any other form of exploitation, such as slavery, blackmailing, ransom demanding, etc... It should thus be dealt in a similar manner: as a crime against humanity.

One minor point: paedophillia refers to sexual desire towards pre-pubescent children, meaning that if the minimum age of consent in the world is 14, then near 100% of paedophilia targets/potential victims have no legal empowerment to make decisions on their sex lives. This means that virtually ALL sex with pre-pubescent children is illegal...

[The Sweet Love]

Originally Posted by micro.micro

i'm pretty apathetic in my religious views so i don't really care about that stuff.

i haven't been around for a but i took the time to read each and everyone of your posts.

by definition a pedophile is someone that is attracted to children as you stated which is something i'm not arguing with, but the question i bring up is why does society look down on pedophiles and why does the media make it such a taboo subject? how is it different from homosexuality? i believe these people have no control over whom they are attracted to so society has no right to shun them for their natural instincts.

I think it is society's natural instinct to shun pedophiles.

[FuLouZero]

It's covered by the media so much because its a taboo and many people are intrigued by it, It's a taboo because prepubescent children are not ready for sex physically and usually mentally. I think theres nothing wrong with being aroused by them its just a little weird.

Personally if I was a father and I lived nearby a known pedophile, I would most definitely be a little worried.

[stupidmonkey246@aim.]

well since my last post was deleted (possibly cuz ive siad u r the worst type of human being on this earth) ill just repeat it, your disgusting, consent doesnt matter, at all if a child doesnt know wut their consenting to. o and consider this, man having sex with a nine year old, that could actually severly hurt the kid. kids dont really know how to make descisions themselves. u can deny that but u know its true, kids do wut their told until their in there teens, which isnt pedophilia, thats too old but still messed up. now your saying its ok for an adult to have sex with a chiild or tell a child to do something even though they relaly dont know wut their consenting to or they do not know that they shouldnt be doing it, think about that. your argument is idiotic. a man haveing sex with a child is wrong, i have known people that have been sexually abused when they were a kid, and for some strange reason all of them suffer sever depression and have attempted suicide more then once, try sitting there on the phone listening to someone die, helpless to do anything, all because they were sexually abused as a child. they didnt know wut they were consenting t, they didnt know it was bad or wut they were doing. they blame themselves for it, now u tell me, honestly, that its ok to cause that in someones life, that its ok to cause the death of another person, just because ur attracted to their age group. think about that.

[x42bn6]

Just out of curiosity, who are you speaking to?*

[bUlLeT_pRoOf]

I actually studied about this in psych. See with this it's just a choice. Tell me guys no matter how old they are, are going to talk about having sex with girls their whole life. It is just how we are. Girls on the other hand care about life. They want it to mean something special to them. They don't want another one night stand and a heartbreak. Not only that there's another reason to. How many men do you know that have sex at 60 years of age? Not many I would beileve. So when they see younger girls with beach bodies and really good looks. It sort of takes them back to the age where they did all the stuff they can't do now.

[stupidmonkey246@aim.]

Originally Posted by bUlLeT_pRoOf

I actually studied about this in psych. See with this it's just a choice. Tell me guys no matter how old they are, are going to talk about having sex with girls their whole life. It is just how we are. Girls on the other hand care about life. They want it to mean something special to them. They don't want another one night stand and a heartbreak. Not only that there's another reason to. How many men do you know that have sex at 60 years of age? Not many I would beileve. So when they see younger girls with beach bodies and really good looks. It sort of takes them back to the age where they did all the stuff they can't do now.

pedofile is prepubesant (i cant spell) so thats before puberty, which means grnadpas checkin out 9, 10, 11 year olds. which is wrong. on so many levels.

and i was talking to micro.micro, since he seems to be sticking up for the pedos.