One thing that I think would be helpful in the fight against child sexual abuse would be to decriminalize sex work. I've heard from other sex workers that they occasionally get clients who want them to role play as children. Just role playing with someone who is non-judgmental is enough for some pedophiles. Of course, this is me speaking rationally. My emotional mind still wants violent vengeance toward my abusers. And I did stop donating to the ACLU once I found out they've defended NAMBLA on occasion. I think NAMBLA should have the right to a good legal defense; I just don't want to pay for it myself.
You ask important questions here. I wish more people would think about them.
I think pedophilia is an atavism caused by the fact that just a couple of hundred years ago, people used to marry quite young (when they were literally children in our eyes) and this proclivity has not had a chance to get completely evolved out of society yet. There are different examples of these atavisms in many other people - for example, that instinctive phobia some people have of snakes or spiders undoubtedly comes from prehistoric days, when they were much larger and more dangerous
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I've done too much thinking already today for Deep Thoughts, but this reminds me of an episode of SVU I saw once, where a guy turned himself in as a pedophile even though he'd never acted upon it, re: potential readers of the book operating within the law.
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You ask important questions here. I wish more people would think about them.
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