We need to stop using the misnomer paedophile which means to love children and instead use the word paedoraptor which means child rapist and/or paedosexual which means someone who is sexually attracted to prepubescents.
There is no convincing argument as to why humans are divergent in our sexuality. Many LGBT activists have always stated that it is oppression that polarises sexuality. It was Freud who said that a free sexuality would be polymorphous perverse.
For non human animals it is always scent that signals that a animal is sexually mature, this is significantly less important for humans, but as to why some people are attracted to a prepubescent is not clear.
Most sexually abuse of children and young people (99%+) is not committed by people who are sexually attracted to children but exploitation the vulnerable and available. Some sexologists believe 1% of people are sexually attracted to prepubescents although there is no convincing date or theory as to this.
Organisations like Stop It Now work with people who identify as such and believe it can be controlled.
We live in a culture where children, prepubescents, and young people are controlled with compulsory education and criminalised if they leave the family home before reaching a legal age. Most sexual abuse takes place in the "family home", 90%+, and this is most acute when a victim fleeing the home due to sexual abuse is returned by the authorities.
We need to recognise children and young people need human rights,
the right to an independent income,
the right to live where they choose, as although in the UK this is technically the case family courts can act to place a child in a place of safety if there is one they prefer, they are never informed of this right specifically or generally and care homes are instead prisons for victims when authorities believe a conviction is unlikely.
the right to move in and out of a lifetime of education and learning.
I have a problem with this as I dont think anything is fixed but generated by cultural requirements and 2000 years is not enough to change our DNA. Humans orgasm thats about as far as nature has taken it and it just relys on it happening often enough and sometimes in a place that could result in reproduction. We are coral making a full moon splurge, its random. Everything else is a result of generations of lies. However I cant see how in our cultures that it can ever be anything other than harmful having sex with someone who is not sexual, prepubescent, it can not be consenual. Once people reach puberty they of course have sex on their own, spontaineously in dreams and fantasys or with others, most often their peers. Once people have reached puberty then rape or abuse should be treated in the same way as for anybody, yes they may or may not be more vulnerable but so are people with mental health problems, learning difficulties, poor women etc etc. Most child sexual abuse is not carried out by people who are sexualy attracted to prepubescents but in a dysfunctional situation where a child is vulnerable and available, most of the time familys. In the UK if a 18 year old young man has sex with a 15 year old girl, but usually only if she gets pregnant, he may be prosecuted for unlawful sex unless he agrees to take responsibility for the child, there is an inherent recognition of consent because he is not prosecuted for rape. To call all these things paedophilia is just plain wrong. We need to seperate out different phenomina but most importantly to me is the recognition that most sexual abuse is not carried out by strangers or paedophiles but mothers and fathers. Youth Liberation is one of the last frontiers with children property in all but name. It is no surprise that it is in the family that most abuse takes place.
PIE = Paedophile Information Exchange most of the members of this organisation which existed and produced a magazine for members in the 70's where prosecuted in the late 70's and again in the early 80's. Dont recall if it was for actual abuse or for promoting but the media linked paedophilia and homosexuality as the same thing. I have looked at a couple of "satanic" abuse cases one in oz where heal for life was acuseing people of being satanists who had been working for them just seemed like they where trying to throw mud to cover up there own shit and cleveland had satanic stuff thrown in which was just a massive witch hunt against 2 great dr's trying to get stuff out there and help kids who where being abused. I think satanic abuse is the same as catholic abuse just an excuse or a good place to find kids.
sorry no I didnt pick up on it we have been jumping between two subjects. Pederast is one of those lovely yankee assasin words that has, unlike faggot which is occasionaly used, never caught on but yes i was aware that it means sex with teenage boys. I guess we didnt need it here as the implied assumption of the age of consent being 21 was that young men needed to be protected from the older predator homosexual who is out to convert him. These arguments where used in the late 90's and early 2000's when at first the age of consent was brought down to 18 and then equalised at 16 as a result of the human rights act. It is very safe for me to think of 2 15 year old boys fucking each other senseless but I guess it is posible for a teenager to be attracted to an older man and want to have consensual sex with him, just not quite as nice a picture !