Submitted by lettuceLeafer in AskRaddle
Clarification I'm not saying its a wrong theory. I think it makes a lot of sense. Just with these types of issues one reason that dismisses all others is often not the case. Also I wonder if people want this to be the only reason people and pedos as it keeps the issue simple and not a difficult and kinda scary discussion. Also child molesters aren't the victim. I just think pedophilia is an important issue to understand as its very harmful but the current discussion on raddle seems to be so oversimplified to not be very helpful in understanding pedophilia and child molestation for countering it.
AnarcheAmor wrote
I believe it comes from various interviews with sex offenders and anecdotes about men of authority where the common denominator is the vulnerability that young people have and the power those men have that enables their predation. However, non-offending people often show that having attractions to children is something that just happens as most non-offending do understand why they shouldn't have such attractions but can't seem to get rid of it.