The Teenage Pedophile

I believe that one of the biggest misconceptions about pedophiles is that they are all males, middle aged and that, above all, they freely choose to be attracted to children. The well known "pedophile profile" you commonly see talked about online. Of course that there are a bunch more characteristics described in this "profile" but I would like to focus mainly on age on this post. I would like to talk about the teenage pedophiles.

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About the non-offending pedophile

There is in today's society, on a general level, the idea that pedophiles are the same as child abusers. Just as that pedophilia is a crime depicted in penal codes. I had already talked about this on some older posts ( A Spark of Lucidity, One Chance). According to what I wrote in these previous posts, pedophiles are not child abusers but merely people who are sexually attracted to children and that pedophilia is not a crime but a sexual orientation or paraphilia (depending on how you wish to view the matter). However there isn't, generally speaking, a lot of discussion about non-offending pedophile, those who do not wish/want to abuse any child under any circumstance.

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Sobre se odiar | About self-hate

As usual, the english version is located at the bottom.

No mundo de hoje é muito fácil acabar em uma situação onde você desenvolve sentimentos ruins sobre si mesmo. Dúvidas sobre se suas idéias, jeito de se expressar, seu corpo, como você se veste, orientação sexual e diversos outros tópicos geram confusão sobre você mesmo. Aliado com a disseminação quase universal de informação online não é difícil você encontrar opiniões de pessoas que atacam diretamente algumas das suas características e dizem que elas são ruins. Logo, não me parece difícil que uma pessoa comece a duvidar de si mesmo e até mesmo se odiar devido a isso. Às vezes intensamente.

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Stigma

Stigma. A strong word with an inherent emotional load associated to it. There are several examples in world history about stigma. Stigma is usually directed at somone/something in specific or a group of people that share some characteristics. Today it is heavily applied to pedophilia and pedophiles.

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