Posted by linkadge on November 25, 2004, at 12:23:41
In reply to Re: illness or the thoughts of a rational human being? » lostforwards, posted by lostforwards on November 25, 2004, at 9:59:01
Let me see if I have this straight. Pedophilia is not a choice, it's not a mental illnes, but acting upon it is illegal. We certainly have a connundrum. We've got thousands of people who have to live very difficult lives.
If an oxytocin blocker (we're not talking oxycontin the pain reliever notice the subtle spelling difference) can deminish the drive of these people then it is obviously diminishing the suffering of them as well.
Currently pedohpiles are routinly administered high doses of SSRI's and sexual hormone blockers to deminish their sex drive.
We, as a society really have no way of approaching the problem. We know it is biological just like half of the other diseases for which men and woman have strived decades for which to gain acceptance and credability.
A turmor is something we can accept, but in one way or another we still can't accept chemical imballences.
If we could give these people a pill to make them attracted to a man/woman instead, then society would be extatic, but lest we forget this was the same idea we had for homosexuals a while ago.
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