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Originally Posted by Skybird
As an ex-pro, I must tell you that we learned it differently. It'S worse than with alcoholics, especially in case of pedophiles. You cannot treat or heal pedophilia.
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No, you can not heal it, the same way you can't heal men of digging women or homosexuals digging their own gender, or all those fetishists digging their fetishes. But you can learn to control it. Pedophilia does not work much different then other drives, sometimes stronger, sometimes less strong. Sometimes they fall for these instincts, sometimes they don't, besides them being there. I dig women, I consider them hot. Does not mean I go out raping them on a regular basis. And even rapists are not serial offenders most of the time or do it again after having served their punishment, exceptions proving the rule. Same with pedophilia, really.
The big problem in this is to determine who is in danger of doing it again and who is not. That question has no satisfying answer so far and led to more victims, a tragedy that can't be repeated.
But going the easy route and starting to castrate people is not a solution worthy of a modern country, but fits into a medieval society. If you are not sure lock them up.