child molesters

[Diana]

There is no healing for homosexuality, skin color, or pedophilia.

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Or alcoholism

This is a large large debate on the internet regarding pedophilia. While a lot of people might arrive at pedophilia through emotional trauma or some sort of distortion which can be "healed" (which can also be said about some cases of homosexuality), we seem to ignore the fact that the definition of pedophilia is very strictly a construct of our own society, and our perception is very sharply shaped by out upbringing within society. There are societies in the world that treat homosexuals the way we treat pedophiles.

The debate is broad, including the ability of children to make decisions on their own, especially ones regarding a sexual nature...but also in the innate disposition of pedophilia. What if there is nothing to be healed? What if you are doing more psychological trauma on the individual trying to "heal" that aspect of themselves, much like what happens with anti-gay Christian "straight camps?"

Good points about society's judgments. Rather than go by what society deems right and wrong, we can go by what causes harm.

The process of healing would be to bring an individual into balance. This might include clearing of childhood abuses, and teaching the individual that they are loved.

How could pedophilia be innate, and not the result of some imbalance perhaps even from past lives? Whatever causes harm to another individual is something that is out of balance, because one participant would desire it while the other would not.

I see what you're saying. But the case could be made that even gays/lesbians are out of balance (the individuals with true confusion between the body they were born with and the sex they feel they really are). For individuals that choose a certain lifestyle as a matter of preference, once again, if there is harm to another individual involved, then it is out of balance.