1. Pedophilia is a fetish/a treatable mental illness.
The most common definition of a “fetish” is an “ unusually strong liking or need for a particular object or activity, as a way of getting sexual pleasure.” (Collins Dictionary). Basically, it how you want to have sex, as opposed to sexuality/paraphilia — who you want to have sex with. Children aren’t an object or activity, what attracts pedophiles in children is their physical appearance. Moreover, pedophilia, unlike sexual abuse, is linked to nurturing instincts and care rather than power. Psychologists agree that pedophilia cannot be treated.

“This opens the possibly that pedophilia is linked (in addition to or instead of an aberrant sexual system) to an over-active nurturing system”

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“The majority (72%) of participants reported they had fallen in love with a child in their lifetime. Participants reported greater feelings of attachment to children than feelings of infatuation. Though sexual attraction and falling in love were strongly correlated, they were not synonymous.”

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“There is no evidence to suggest that pedophilia can be changed. Instead, interventions are designed to increase voluntary control over sexual arousal, reduce sex drive, or teach self-management skills to individuals who are motivated to avoid acting upon their sexual interests.”

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“Behavioral treatments such as aversion therapy and masturbatory reconditioning have shown some effect on arousal patterns, but do little or nothing to change underlying sexual desires (Laws & Marshall, 2003; Marshall & Laws, 2003; Seto, 2009). For the most part, cognitive-behavioral therapies designed to change the way pedophiles think, and act, have had little effect on either (Seto, 2009).”

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“There are no compelling data to suggest that pedophiles might be converted into teleiophiles(persons with a primary sexual interest in adults). Multiple types of interventions have been attempted, including sex-drive-reducing medications and talk therapies informed by any of many theoretical orientations. Although there exist authors who have claimed that their interventions changed their clients’ fundamental sexual interests (e.g., Fedoroff, 1988, 1992), such reports do not include comparison groups, long-term follow-up, or any validated, objective measure to verify the claims of successful change.”

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Moreover, supposed pathologies in MAP brains were found out to be a result of an incorrectly conducted research, because in previous studies non-offending maps were not included.

“Our results are the first to demonstrate that executive dysfunctions are related to offense status rather than pedophilic preference.”

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“Consistent with the conceptualization of the DSM-5, which specifies CSO as most the prominent criterion that differentiates pedophilia from pedophilic disorder, there were no significant differences between the GM volumes of the non-offending pedophiles and the teleiophilic controls. In contrast, the pedophiles who had engaged in CSO showed a significantly reduced relative GM volume in the right TP compared with pedophiles who did not. This difference was not attributable to age, level of education, IQ, sexual orientation, drug misuse/dependence, other Axis I or II disorders or general criminality.”

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