re: #244 reine.de.tout

What are you saying?
I, for one, am very very happy there is “intense social stigma” attached to being a pedophile, and that the stigma is a negative one.

How do you know a person is a pedophile, until they have committed an act that qualifies?

Well I think its safe to say if someone stands up and says “Hi my name is Joe and I want to have sex with little boys, but I never have…” You’re not going to be able to look at him the same way as you did before you knew that.

I think the theory runs, just having the desire is given an intense social stigma, and so people don’t admit to having the desire, so the desire is left unchecked till it bubbles over and ends up being acted upon….

At least in some cases.