Mark Taylor equates internet porn with videogames and sexual predators.

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I'm not saying it's okay that they molest little kids, but they've got what could be an incurable sexual desire that they have to spend their lives unable to act on.

Child Molestation isn't the product of a healthy sexual desire, though. It's not like we're talking about physically mature 16 year olds, we're talking about kids that are, in these cases, infants and prepubescents. Sure, there is a physical erotic component but generally it stems from their need for control or power. Children are physically inferior and their minds are still developing which means that they're easily manipulated and controlled.

It's a perversion, in the true sense of the word.

In a lot of cases of homosexual rape among adults, the perpetrators aren't homosexual, it's an act of dominance-- an expression of power and control over someone else. This is the same idea at play.

Note: I'm not saying homosexuality is perverse nor am I saying homosexuals are power hungry control freaks. But that sometimes people commit acts, homosexual in nature, as an expression of dominance.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I would be willing to accept your postulation were it that it didn't go against every bit of established research that I'm aware of.

Children that are prepubescent are referred to as prepubescent for a reason. They don't emit the same pheromones that maturated humans do. I cannot find a comprehensible reason, from a biological standpoint, why anyone would develope or have an innate attraction to children. However, there is a psychological explanation for that attraction and-- unless you consider the willingness to subject children to satisfying your own personal desires, no matter the cost to them, acceptable behavior-- it is a pathology. It's a simple question of plausibility, yeah, you may not want to hear it; but that doesn't stop it from being any less viable.

There's really no beating around the bush about it. Of course, as one who has a certain level of respect for the scientific method, I'm willing to accept the fact that I am wrong. Then comes the moral dilemma, even if by some odd occurence that these people are found to be truly incapable of controlling their attraction, does that necessarily predicate that they should be allowed to satisfy this attraction.

Children aren't fully capable of understanding the rammifications of sexual relationships, hell, most adults can't even claim that. It would seem to me illogical and, ultimately, irresponsible to allow such acts to be committed knowing-- having observed the severe side-effects that it can have. And for what? So that some man or woman can have some carnal desire fulfilled? Taking it a step further, how would the relationship progress? I doubt the child would be able to return the love the adult is supposedly giving them, unless of course it turns into some sort of weird parental situation-- which, again has serious psychological reprocussions for the child.

There's nowhere I can't reach.