What a hateful, ignorant thread.
I suppose nobody on this liberated message board has had to live with a repressed sexuality.
Well actually yeah, I have. Welcome to being homosexual. And if you're gonna pull out the "being gay is pretty much accepted" line, yeah it "pretty much" is...but most of my family don't talk to me no more because I'm open about it (no great loss) and my relationship with my sister has been completely fucked up since I came out. So yeah, I think it still counts as a "repressed sexuality". Things are a lot better now than they were 10 or 20 years ago, but the fact still remains that a lot of gay guys have to remain repressed because of their circumstances.
The difference I feel is that this is due to social mores...after all, we're talking about the activities of two consenting adults. Pedophilia is about an adult and a MINOR. Thus named because they're legally not capable of making competent adult decisions. Sure, there will always be exceptions. I'm sure there are 13 year old kids out there who are damn sure what they want sexually, but I would make a guess that they're a distinct minority. And isn't it worth making those few kids wait a few years to better protect the majority who are at risk of being exploited by adults who are supposed to be the mature "protectors of their innocence"?
But instead of heralding and congratulating those who show restraint over their urges, we tell them that they should die for even having them.
I can't speak for anyone else here, but the way I look at is, you're not responsible for what your libido tells you you want...you ARE responsible for what you do about it. If someone I knew was having sexual thoughts about kids, I'd encourage them to get counselling but I wouldn't think of them as a terrible human being. But if they were actually DOING it, then that's a crime, and it's a crime for a damn good reason. Somebody's child is being exploited.
You make me wish I'd never registered.
~Sylv.