
Originally Posted by
Omnis Dei
This is false, just because someone's opinion of their fetish is that it's a sexual orientation doesn't make them the same thing.
A fetish is a personality disorder that stems from some form of childhood conditioning. Pedophilia, specifically, comes from abuse so rough the subject no longer feels capable of loving an adult.
No,
this is false. The idea that pedophilia is caused by sexual abuse as a child is a myth.
Even just looking at it logically, you can see that it is flawed: Most child abuse victims are girls. Most child abuse perpetrators are males.
And I am an example, I had a perfectly "normal" childhood, yet I ended up pedophile. Could it be that this sexuality develops like any other sexuality? Blasphemy!
It used to be a theory that this was the cause, but I believe tests showed that the amount of pedophiles who had been molested as children were quite low. Additionally, you have to consider the control group. The group used would be consisting mostly of pedophiles from the sex offender's registry and prison. With a control group like that, it is very easy to walk in there and go
"Holy moly, it appears they've all comitted crimes!"
Pedophilia can be described as a disorder of sexual preference, phenomenologically similar to a heterosexual or homosexual sexual orientation
Pedophilia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word, "paraphilia" is in itself meaningless, and only serves to specify that a given sexual orientation is also abnormal or undesirable. A paraphilia simply means an abnormal sexuality. Pedophilia is not a mental disorder or a fetish
(both words are vague, ambiguous and subjective), but it is indeed an abnormal sexuality. But homosexuality is also "abnormal"
(As normal simply means conforming to the norm), case in point normal/abnormal means jack shit. Double case in point, paraphilia and all -philia words are meaningless. And so is "fetish", as it's only function is to specify a sub-attraction to a person's sexual preference.
The one thing I wish people would get, is that fetishes, paraphilias, sexual orientations/preferences, sexualities, are all bullshit words that tries to specify things that are better off not being specified. Being attracted to boobs is a fetish. In reality, it's all just one big, (not so) complicated blob of "sexual preference".
EDIT:
Some preferences are just more inconvenient than others. That's all.
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