In order to avoid triggering people, I’m putting this below the cut. My opinion of pedophilia:

It’s not an innate orientation. Which does mean I think it can be changed – but that requires that the pedophile in question stop watching child porn and videos titled things like ‘teen gets railed by her father.’ If they stop purposefully reinforcing the dopamine pathways that make them associate children and sex, they’ll be able to get off to grown people like normal human beings – basically, they’ll be able to ping the buttons with simple stimulation.

If they truly ‘can’t help it’ and are ‘non-offending’, however, then they doubly need to stay the hell away from child porn, get constant therapy, and accept with good grace that they can’t safely be within ten feet of a child. IMO, having sexual fantasies about a child is abuse of that child, even if you don’t lay a finger on them.

It’s ironic that these guys (because the vast majority of them are male) dig in their heels and publicly scream that it’s part of their identity and it’s innate and they can’t help it and they’re NOT bad at all, because in doing so, they are reinforcing the convictions of – if not helping to create – other pedophiles.