It’s only level one.

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Yeah but the person “cured” had type 2.

There might be applications for type 1, but that’s speculation.

Type 2, since the article doesn’t say.

“formatting and typo”

No, I’m willing to bet you have plenty of energy. Society has simply deemed that all of it must be spent on being productive for the sake of everyone except yourself.

“If your employees have energy to spend on meaningful activities during their own time, you’re leaving money on the table. Squeeze them harder while they are on the clock.”

You wouldn’t have a point even if my user history was 100% anime. If “they like anime” is the most damning comeback you can come up with, I’m not sure where to even begin setting you straight.

It’s pretty clear that actual level-headed discussion by people who have looked into the reasearch on this is something that sets off a raging hate-boner for you, completely preventing you from actually considering what is being said.

Your very first edit revealed you didn’t even read my full comment before responding. I’m not sure you’ve fully understood any part of what I’ve said, or you’d be attempting and failing to dismantle my argument, instead of attempting and failing to dismantle my character.

You’re being downvoted because you’re simply wrong on this, and being a hateful asshole about it to boot.

Yeah…

Looking at the edits they made to their initial comment. I’m not sure where to even start explaining why they’re wrong about this.

Apparently liking anime is damning evidence to this person, and their point about feeling unsafe is hilarious considering their attempts at lumping me together with the worst of the worst in order to boost their own position.

Nevermind the actual risk to my safety it could be if they succeed.

It varies by a lot. It doesn’t help that the research is scarce and seldom consulted on legislation.

I think a lot of people afflicted just never tell anyone. As long as you’re otherwise stable and in control of yourself, anyone who has only that one thing wrong about them, could extremely easily take it to the grave. It’s by far the best option to live a decent life.

If you don’t need someone else to stop you from acting on it, why tell anyone, ever? It can’t be cured, so the only “help” available is to teach you self-control, or like you say, in some places, prison. If you’re among the 99% of people who already have self-control figured out, why speak up and just complicate your life?

Unfortunately I don’t think we can draw a line between capitalism and pedophilia, specifically.

Though theres something to be said about people in positions of power partaking. Just look at religion.

The sexual orientation argument is a landmine.

Though it illustrates aspects of the point, it draws a lot of other uncomfortable parallels for people that really really aren’t part of it.

And then you’ll spend twice as long dispelling the BS it makes people assume about the point you’re making.

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For what?

What is it you fear I will do if I don’t? Educate people more?

If I was what you seem to be suggesting I am, do you even know what “help” would be? I do.

So, like a no-attraction-towards-less-than-18-year-olds-allowed-vaccine that we just give everyone? That would work.

You don’t need to be passive aggressive about mentioning months. I know. I can also tell you that unfortunately the condition isn’t chemical. People are born with it.

My point is that you only get a molester when they have the condition, and also lack the control that all the rest of us have for not raping people. As such, removing the urges is only solving half the problem. You’d still be letting people who’d rape adults through the cracks.

Dealing with those types of people would counter both pedos, and rapists in general.

Consent training is the real solution, and is what actual “treatment” for pedos seeking help currently consists of, and in some cases just total libido suppression through medical means.

You are making some olympic mental gymnastics level assumptions about me there.

I know you can be attracted to others. What my libido does is only one component in how I feel about someone, and often the least useful. But by definition it is a component ace people don’t need/get to worry about.

You definitely have no experience with the “urges” of a sex drive, because there is literally no way they can take control of a person to the extent they commit crimes before they realize what they are doing is wrong. That’s not a thing.

How the fuck did you get “overpowering” from my expressing the ease at which they are suppressed?

If child molesters were somehow driven by a cerebral malfunction they can’t do anything about, they’d be pitiable, not monsters worthy of death. They chose to do it.

Also, to make it very clear, at no point did I say being turned on by kids is ok.

I said the condition itself doesn’t automatically turn a person into a rapist, the same way a normal sex drive doesn’t either.

Seriously, look it up, “treatments” for pedophilia, boiled down, is literally just consent training, and it works. Not in the sense that the libido goes away (though that can be done medically) but in the sense that these people do not then go on to rape anyone, children or otherwise.

The fact that you’re ace explains a bit. You simply have no experience with this.

When I was 14, I was horny as hell. My “sex juices” were most certainly flowing. I crushed on several girls in school but at that age I was far too awkward to even speak to them. Let alone know what to do with my frustration aside from masturbate.

Not allowing my libido to drive me to hurting someone is the easiest thing ever. It was then, still is today. (No, I do not feel a need to fuck a 14-year-old, I sleep with adults around my own age)

Nothing about the research into pedophilia suggests that their libidos work in some different way. If you’re a moral person who doesn’t want to hurt anyone, you will do your best not to. And not having sex with children is a pretty easy call to make.

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t exactly think clearly when turned on, but it has never, ever, even in a years-long dry spell, led me to even slightly consider actually doing something with someone without their consent.

Nothing you can tell me can convince me that a person who doesn’t want to hurt others, can be made to do so by their sex drive.

Especially considering you don’t even know what having a libido feels like.

It’s important to note that the attraction to kids, and actually diddling them, are technically separate things.

No normal person has trouble not raping people of the opposite gender, no matter how wild their libido gets.

So while research has essentially proven that the condition itself can’t be cured, it doesn’t automatically mean a person also wants to rape.

It’s when those two things go wrong at the same time, that you get a monster.

So basically, teach consent. If you don’t raise a rapist, they’re not gonna end up a child molester, even if they feel the attraction.

Also “fixing it by the time someone is 10” is gonna be difficult. People tend to be attracted to people their own age, so what, is a 14-year-old a pedo if they do something with a classmate?

A “mine” would suggest there is already infrastructure.

If you just found some new place with a ton of lithium, it’s not a mine until you actually build all the stuff around it to get it out of the ground.

You can’t “find” a mine, unless you already built one, and then forgot it existed.