Is Paedophilla always wrong? Should it be legalised?

No... liking children is not a sexual orientation. There are only 1-2 sexual irientations and the rest are false. A paedophile is an adult who HAS acted on a child in a sexual way. What this 'nature' argument does is attempt to covertly legitimise paedophilia as some kind of mental illness or sexual orientation when it is simply just a criminal and nasty act.

Everybody trying to dilute the term 'paedophile' are only helping to weaken the sentiment and charge people feel when they hear of kiddie fiddling. It only makes paedophiles become the victims of their own nature- like homosexuals in the 1700s. Pity should not be afforded to them.

You are wrong. Paedophilia is a mental illness while homosexuality manifestedly isn't. Romance has no place in adult-child relationships.

I agree that child abuse in general is a pressing concern, that includes both domestic violence and molestation.

Not sure what you are trying to say with regards to domestic violence being more pressing, the law addresses specifically sexual abuse and that is at least as important. If you think there is a knee-jerk reaction to paedophilia, that is because the mental health aspect is not well represented in the media (I was not even sure it existed), so all people know is the criminal aspect.

Wrong, action isn't a requirement to being a paedophile. How bigoted.

there is hope I guess.

my gut feeling is that these guys are an absolute minority though..men suppressing sexual urges? surely not?!

How silly. I'm a bigot because I want to categorise people based on evidence and not self-diagnosis. Get real, matey.

For consistency, I take it you don't accept people who self classify themselves as homosexuals either?

Paedophillia is prevalent in the bible and occurs in Middle Eastern countries. Also we've become accepting of all sorts of bizarre sexual orientations- homosexuality, asexuality, necrophillia and beastiality. The fact these are all accepted as the norm these days in society raises a quietly controversial question- should our views on Paedophillia change?

Why do Muslims enjoy paedophillia and rape?

We can't criminalise thoughts etc

Homosexuality is legal in some places because it is too controversial to debate the origins.

Since when does someone have sexual thoughts and doesn't act on them at some point. Pedophilia is bad because it leads to sexual abuse of children. Otherwise pedophilia is simply theoretical and we all know it isn't.

You do know its a troll?

The troll doesnt like that homosexuality is legal so he is trying to make the argument that homosexuality = pedophilia, so homosexuality should be illegal. Theres one of these threads all the time.

This thread is not about pedophilia, its about homophobia and the people actually feeding the troll are simpletons *facepalm*

Are you 12? You post like you're jumping up and down screaming for a cookie.

Wow, self-righteous plonkers everywhere.Love is love, sexual attraction is sexual attraction, whatever the age. I'm sick to death of all these morons who believe all paedophiles are closet Jimmy Savilles who want to abuse their authority as adults over children. They are not! But at the same time, rape and molesting children, or anyone really, is wrong.I understand all these concerns that paedophiles might one day end up abusing the kid they're into, but let's be adults about this shall we? If an adult loves an under 11 romantically, then by definition they should want to protect and satisfy said child as well as themselves, and at the same time they should be aware groping/sexual assaults are illegal in this country. Paedophilia is something that occurs to people naturally, like homosexualiy, and does not make somebody a raving lunatic. Therefore, by that logic, there should be straight up men/women who the child would be safe with, despite being paedophiles. In fact, one of the most common and more pressing problem children face is domestic violence. If you really want to save more children, rather than trying to demonize every single paedophile out there, save the kids from their parents first, please.So to sum up, I don't think paedophilia is wrong but believe rape and molesting is. Since children can't give consent without parent's permission for anything, parents themselves are more suitable to have this discussion that's currently being done rather than by childless nincompoop s.

And you clearly possess neither.

Are you 12? You post like you're jumping up and down screaming for a cookie.

No... liking children is not a sexual orientation. There are only 1-2 sexual irientations and the rest are false. A paedophile is an adult who HAS acted on a child in a sexual way. What this 'nature' argument does is attempt to covertly legitimise paedophilia as some kind of mental illness or sexual orientation when it is simply just a criminal and nasty act.

Everybody trying to dilute the term 'paedophile' are only helping to weaken the sentiment and charge people feel when they hear of kiddie fiddling. It only makes paedophiles become the victims of their own nature- like homosexuals in the 1700s. Pity should not be afforded to them.

Whether we like it or not, it will be legalised. Several political parties are working on it and since tolerance is the west's specialty, I wouldn't be surprised is such sickos will be seen as victims in the future.