Reply #110: it's absolutely not natural [View All]

[qazplm]

it is, IMO, a mental disease, a sickness.

Now that doesn't mean they aren't culpable, but I think it is simply an intense sexual desire for children caused by mental illness which is either genetic, caused by environmental circumstances as you note, or a mixture of both.

Doesn't mean they should "get off" (although I think lengthy treatment in a mental institution is preferable to incarceration where they don't get near the treatment they need and where I am concerned recidivism is a real problem because while a 65 year old man isn't likely to assault or rob someone they can easily commit child sexual assault/molestation), but

I think it does mean that it isn't about power/control.