A person who suffers from Pedophilia; that is, an adult who is sexually attracted to children. Pedophilia is a mental disorder, not a sexual orientation or lifestyle choice. Specifically, it is a Paraphilia. The Paraphilias are characterized by recurrent, intense, sexual urges, fantasies, or behaviors that involve unusual objects, activities, or situations. Other examples of Paraphilias are Exhibitionism, Fetishism, Sexual Masochism, and Sexual Sadism.
We always imagine pedophiles to look like Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones (which makes sense because he TOTALLY looks like a crazy child molester/rapist/murderer and IS in fact all of those things), but a lot of pedophiles actually just look like regular people. A lot of them are attractive, nice looking white dudes who just happen to have a really nasty and really disturbing attraction to children. Which is obviously totally wrong and horrible and anyone who finds themselves actually attracted to kids needs to get help, like, immediately. Unfortunately there really aren’t very many options for people who find themselves in this sort of situation. It’s pretty hard to admit to even a therapist that you’re afraid of your own urges because they are ultimately wrong and abusive and could harm others because that therapist has an obligation to protect any children that she or he can and must report that person if she or he believes that their patient is likely to harm or abuse children.
So it’s tough to be a pedophile and actually try to seek help. Most people are happily ready to lock up pedophiles before they have committed any crimes. Of course the abuse of children is a horrible thing and anyone who abuses children must deal with some pretty severe consequences, but those who have urges but are doing whatever they can within their own power to prevent themselves from acting on those urges should be able to seek help without judgment.
Those pedophiles out there that are actively abusing children need to be put on some kind of island, so they can play out their own creepy version of survivor.
1. I caught my boyfriend looking at porn with chicks that look super young. Of course, they claim to be eighteen, but they look more like fourteen or fifteen. He’s always liked that smooth look and I have a gymnast’s body, so I’m super thin with tiny tits, but now I’m worried that he’s sick and perverted.
2. My landlord totally looks like a pedophile. I know he’s not cause I hear him fucking his gay stud (an older dude with grey hair) in his suite, which is directly above mine, but he’s just got that look, you know? The thinning hair, the wire rimmed glasses, the slight paunch. Of course, he probably just doesn’t know anything about fashion because he’s old and he’s from a certain era of dudes where everyone kind of looked like a pedophile. I guess my grandpa kind of had that look and he would never do anything to anyone (except my grandma, whom he loved to drill doggy style according to the sex diary I found in her chest after she died).
RELATED TERMS: