VICE: Pedophilia is a Mental Issue and It’s Still not Treated as One

“The goal of any modern, preventative treatment for pedophilia should be to help people manage their sexual interests rather than try to change them.”

VICE just released an article about normalizing and accepting of pedophilia, and It’s far worse than it can be imagined. I’ve seen justifications for all sort of rotten and corrupted behaviors, but this one takes the price.

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The Facts

VICE News posted an article this last Saturday July 24 that it seems was written about a year ago. Surprisingly, the story is making news just recently. The article presents pedophilia as something that needs to be accepted and normalize because pedophilia is an in-born sexual preference according to new research.

Also, it states that during the last several decades researchers have come to a new understanding about the sexual attraction to children, which is something a person does not choose and cannot be change, thus making pedophilia an in-born preference, not a choice.

Furthermore, a pedophile’s attraction to children is not a phase, but a consistent sexual attraction throughout their entire life. Therefore, half of child molesters or child porn offenders are nearly always genuine pedophiles and not child abusers.

The article concludes stating that “the goal of any modern, preventative treatment for pedophilia should be to help people manage their sexual interests rather than try to change them”.

The Eloquence

That article is so harmful on so wrong on so many levels that I don’t even know where to start. But I’ll say this: this is clearly a rotten, corrupt, and evil way to start normalizing and defending the indefensible. But you will be surprised why, even though most of it is self-evident, there is something not so evident about all this.

The first step to legalize something is to first acknowledge it as a mental or socio-cultural issue. Once it is acknowledged as such, the next step is to then present it as a harmless behavior or an in-born quality or deficiency. Once that happens, the next step is to stigmatize it to eventually declassify it as a disease or mental issue, which is the only job the World Health Organization actually does. Inevitable the next consequence follows: debates about the sexual issue gradually shift away from medicine and psychiatry into politics and human rights. And once the diagnosis is removed from the DSM we cannot longer ask what causes pedophilia? Or how can we treat it? Because that would be illegal.

Next thing you know we have a pedophile pride month, and a lot of happy politicians and Hollywood stars because they don’t longer have to go to Thailand or hide anymore to get involved in child prostitution rings and human trafficking.

Bottom line, we’ve seen this, we’ve seen how these things unfold, if we don’t do anything no one will. This is a BIG NO, and there shouldn’t even be a discussion about it, period.