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In reply to the discussion: Why are there so many pedophiles? [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)79. I have trouble believing that it's anything like 4%. That seems insanely high.
If you got it from a story about Priests consider that you may have seen someone trying to spin apologia for the RCC, like "they're everywhere so of course we're going to find them all over our ranks, too".
(I do believe that expecting people to take a lifelong vow of no sex is fundamentally unnatural, and as such why it would tend to appeal to people who may be overtly or subconsciously trying to run away from their innate urges, isn't that hard to figure out)
I suspect the number is much smaller. As to what to do, I don't know. It seems to be hard-wired, which to my mind renders people with that condition pretty much unfit for general society.
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You're going to pull 4 percent of the male population out of society and keep them there?
KamaAina
Jan 2016
#2
What percentage of the population is tolerable to be victimized by pedophiles?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#25
"It's a real problem everywhere." It's a constellation of problems leftyladyfrommo. It's evil. K&R.
bobthedrummer
Jan 2016
#40
I have trouble believing that it's anything like 4%. That seems insanely high.
Warren DeMontague
Jan 2016
#79
... significantly more likely not to be right-handed (i.e. they’re left-handed or ambidextrous). n/t
ebayfool
Jan 2016
#80
MUST Watch! Conspiracy of Silence..... (Discovery channel doc pulled at last minute)
ghostsinthemachine
Jan 2016
#77