You truly are an idiot of epic proportions. To equate homosexuality in any way to pedophilia just shows how absolutely ignorant you are. Here is the simple fact about homosexuality; homosexual acts happen between consenting adults. Now here is the simple fact about pedophilia; acts of pedophilia take place between an adult and a non-consenting minor who is in fact being raped.
It amazes me that you are incapable of differentiating between the two, because it really is very simple.
Why don't you read the article? You are attacking a poster for quoting Dr. Fred Berlin, a psychiatrist who heads the Johns Hopkins Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit, and other "experts" who are now claiming that pedophilia is a sexual orientation. It's those so-called experts equating it with homosexuals as well as straight people. The experts contend people are born a certain way and have no choice. Is that true with pedophiles and rapists? Are those experts now trying to say no one has a choice at all? We can't blame any of them for their actions? Seems to be the message.
koshergrl sounds like she disagrees with them and yet you are attacking her?
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Why don't you read the article and the embedded article?
Many researchers taking a different view of pedophilia - Los Angeles Times
No one is calling for lesser punishment for child molesters. The research done here, in Canada and in Germany is trying to find ways to help control it BEFORE a child is harmed. Is that a bad thing?
Resisting desire
Most clinicians have given up on changing the sexual orientation of pedophiles in favor of teaching the how to resist their unacceptable desires.
Experts believe that pedophiles who also have a significant attraction to adults stand the best chance of staying out of trouble, because of their capacity for some sexual fulfillment that is legal. For others, injections of hormones to reduce sex drive are often recommended.
Most pedophiles, however, don't receive any attention until they've been arrested.
In an attempt to change that, sex researchers in Germany launched an unusual media campaign in 2005.
"You are not guilty because of your sexual desire, but you are responsible for your sexual behavior," said billboards urging them to contact the Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine in Berlin. "There is help! Don't become an offender!"
More than 1,700 men have responded to the print, television and online ads for Project Dunkelfeld literally "dark field." As of August, 80 had completed a one-year program aimed at teaching them to control their impulses. Some received hormone shots. Compared to men still on the waiting list, those who received treatment were deemed less likely to molest children, according to an analysis of risk factors.
The German researchers promise patients confidentiality. About half of those assessed admitted to having already molested a child.
Though extolled by many researchers, the same program could not be conducted in the United States or many other countries, where clinicians and others are required by law to notify authorities if they suspect a child has been or could be harmed.
There have been some grass-roots efforts to bring pedophilia out of the shadows. Anton Schweighofer, a psychologist in British Columbia, said he recently referred one of his patients to Virtuous Pedophiles, an online support group for men who have never acted on their desires and want to keep it that way.
"I just don't want to get myself in trouble," said the man, a factory worker who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. "I really don't want to harm anybody."
For many pedophiles, a fundamental part of life will always be a shameful secret.