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Would you call pedephelia a disorder?

Do you believe pedophilia is a disorder?

  • Yes

    Votes: 27 58.7%
  • No

    Votes: 3 6.5%
  • It can be in some cases

    Votes: 3 6.5%
  • No, it's criminal even if it is a disorder

    Votes: 13 28.3%

  • Total voters
    46
Dodge ball. The question was and is do you think those fundamentalist Mormons who are now in prison for marrying 12 year old girls should be set free? It is a simple yes or no question you apparently find uncomfortable to answer.

Non sequitur. Since we do not live in a Mormon society where Mormon ideals are the law, your post is irrelevant.
 
Two percent of America is gay and that meets the definition of deviant behavior

So are left handers, red heads, geniuses, astronauts, and lots of other things.
 
The statement was made that a young boy finding he is attracted to other young boys feels no distress but the suicide rates for this group I linked to prove otherwise. You can argue as to why they feel distress but the point is they do. Your argument that society makes them feel distress falls flat. Imagine being a young boy suddenly finding he is so different from his peers. You think that would not cause you distress all on its own?

And yet research shows that being gay in and of itself causes no distress. Many studies show this, starting with the seminal Hooker study. Research shows that the distress that gays feel is caused by outside sources... rejection from family and friends or societal discrimination. The link you originally provided presented research that showed that gays who were accepted by family and friends were no more likely to become suicidal than population norm, but those who were NOT accepted were 8 times more likely. This clearly demonstrates that you don't know what you are talking about and have been proven wrong... not surprisingly.
 
Kids like to fit in and the ultimate in not fitting in is to discover you are homosexual. The mental distress these kids must feel when they desperately want to be attracted to the opposite sex but just can't do it has to be a nightmare for them.

You just proved yourself wrong. It's not homosexuality that is the problem. It's the adolescent need to fit in. This happens to kids who are too short, too fat, or many other things.

Good job. You just pwned yourself.
 
You just proved yourself wrong. It's not homosexuality that is the problem. It's the adolescent need to fit in. This happens to kids who are too short, too fat, or many other things.

Good job. You just pwned yourself.

Seems like most threads in here eventually get taken over by some desperate house wives drama queen that wants to discuss each other instead of the subject and that is when I move on. I wish there was a different forum in here for people like you to rant and rave so the adults could civilly debate and discuss.
 
As with adult rape isn't it more about power than sex? I would imagine that it is far easier to exert power over children than adults and as you say that makes them 'convenient' targets.

If the underlying cause is the disorder pedophilia, then it is about attraction and sex. Unlike sexual orientations, however, pedophilia produces urges with in the pedophiles, similar to the way the kleptomania produces urges in the kleptomaniac. The intensity of the disorder can result in overwhelming urges. This is one of the reasons why it is important to know the underlying causes.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html?_r=0

I had no idea there was support group for pedophiles who don't act on their urges. This article states that according to some MRI's these men were born this way. A push to call it a disorder rather than a crime.What are your thoughts?

ETA- for the grammar nazis, autocorrect misspelled pedo in my title;)
It is a mental disorder that becomes a crime if acted upon.

I'm entirely for support groups and the like that help people with such urges avoid acting upon them.
 
Seems like most threads in here eventually get taken over by some desperate house wives drama queen that wants to discuss each other instead of the subject and that is when I move on. I wish there was a different forum in here for people like you to rant and rave so the adults could civilly debate and discuss.

Most threads here get infested by uneducated anti-gay ideologues, but fortunately, once they are shown to be misinformed or completely wrong, they usually scurry off, whining.
 
Most threads here get infested by uneducated anti-gay ideologues, but fortunately, once they are shown to be misinformed or completely wrong, they usually scurry off, whining.

but they tend to scurry out as soon as there is another thread that has anything to do with human sexuality, beating the same dead horse yet again.
 
but they tend to scurry out as soon as there is another thread that has anything to do with human sexuality, beating the same dead horse yet again.
Everyone likes a fresh dead horse - the older ones start to stink after awhile.
 
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