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Originally Posted by Siobhan OFlynn  While I'm loathe to enter this discussion, I feel like that guy probably needed to get to a therapist instead of acting out on his impulses in SL. If he recognizes his feelings and it makes him hate himself, he needs professional help before the day that he eventually acts on his desire for children. I feel for him, I really do. But if the day comes that he can't help himself and he does physically act out his desires with a child, he will hate himself even more.
I don't want to censor what people do in SL, but pedophilia is a really slippery slope and I don't think him using SL as an outlet was such a good idea. That's just my humble opinion. |
He also said that he was in therapy.
But as I posted on SC about this, I don't think therapy is an option.
I don't believe there is a cure for pedophilia. It is a sexual attraction the same as heterosexuality and homosexuality. I know that people involved in gay rights try vehemently to distance these things because those involved in anti-gay rights want to equate them as one in the same, but they are ultimately ingrained traits that can only be altered within certain margins.
Just as there's little success conditioning gay people to be straight and give up same-sex attraction so do most pedophiles who are caught overwhelmingly repeat the behavior.
And I think the slippery slope is in treating pedophilia as a disease but saying "No way, gay people can't change." I don't think either groups can change, personally.