What is the psychological reasoning behind pedophiles?
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Ok basically pedophiles brains are physically different from normal people. I won’t go into detail about what exactly is different, but it’s similar to people with compulsive disorders or ptsd. Some people are predisposed to it from birth, other people have lasting untreated mental issues that cause them to seek these things out, sometimes doing it in order to cope. Obviously that doesn’t justify their action if they did act upon their urges, but it’s still a fact sometimes. People sometimes do bad things to cope with bad things in their life.
Pedophilia is classified as a paraphalia and a mental disorder. Paraphalia is a sexual attraction to usually non-consenting things like inanimate objects, animals, children etc. And Paraphalias are developed through habit and normalization. Basically if anyone at any time engages in paraphalia, and continues to do it habitually, they will physically change their minds as described earlier and fall into a sexual addiction basically, and when those things involve prepubescent people or animals, you get more serious diagnoses and convictions such as pedophilia sexual offenses or beastiality and animal abuse offenses etc etc.
Half of the time, people with these paraphalia developed it through puberty, and its difficult to reverse the effects when they become an adult, but it is possible to undo those habits, just like most habits, if you reach it at an early enough stage, and thankfully if you start developing any paraphalia and actively seek help as it starts, your chances of changing that path improves
Now this is a little bit off topic, but this also means that especially in a place like the usa, the way we handle these issues is really kind of awful. I need it to be known that I do not advocate pedophilia and will not justify any of their actions, because its actually awful to commit those crimes, but we do criminalize those people for being mentally ill, and once they serve their time, they still receive no mental health care to improve their lives, they are simply released back into society and labeled as a sex offender and somehow are expected to not commit another offense. And this goes for most criminals. Like why wouldnt we get these people rehabilitation and therapy during their time in jail? We dont want to give someone who did a bad thing a chance to reverse what they’ve done? But we’ll give a pedophile like 2 years in jail and then just let him go right back to what he did prior to jail. That’s literally insane and makes no sense, and I dint support it, it would honestly be more effective to execute them at that point, but that’s just my 2 cents. Not that I support execution either, but it’s better than just letting pedos roam freely after major offenses without mental care
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