Why are there so many pedophiles?

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37. Sexual behavior has many expressions, right and wrong a wide range

that is largely culturally acquired.

Penes themselves seem to be structured by evolution to the possibility of returning 'pleasurable' signals when rubbed on and pushed into a variety of things. Not surprisingly, there are reports of penes being rubbed on and pushed into a wide variety of inanimate and animate object to return gratifying sensations to their owners.

It's hard to know what parts of this behavior are due to structure differences in cognitive hardware and what is merely a consequence of exploration/experience that leads to acquired knowledge of behaviors that are sexually gratifying and the interpersonal social psychology that leads to predatory exploitation of circumstance and opportunity.

Are people who live with a sense of social exceptionalism wired differently, or have they merely explored the latitude that they can exploit further than other people? Which is to say are they really different than others or are they simply further along some axis of measurement?

A person who regularly speeds down the highway flouting traffic laws is being exceptional. A person who exploits workplace opportunities and dominance hierarchies to have sex with employees, clients, or customers does the same, even while others in society may frown upon that liberty much more than they do on speeding. A person who purposefully seeks positions of employment or professions to find opportunities among vulnerable people may just be rather further down a path of greater and greater self satisfaction eve as that behavior is looked upon ever more as criminally predatory.

Are these things due to antisocial, or addictively susceptible wiring or merely acquired/learned entrainment and habituation to exceptionalism that overwhelms/extinguishes awareness of social taboos?

Bill Clinton and Lewinsky engaged in a relationship that had it occurred in my life would have caused me to lose my job and my career as a college professor. I don't really have any reason to think Bill Clinton's 'wiring' diagram is particularly different from my own. Rather, I acknowledge that his profession and mine, and my employment and status are different and occur under different social environments with different restraints on sexual behavior.

Deviant behavior is merely different whether it is acceptable or criminal is in large part an interpretation made from within a social context