Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 2:10:39 GMT
The thing about child molesters is that the vast majority of them were molested themselves as children. So I think its more a question of nurture vs. nature with them.
I find the question about the EAR and children to be an interesting one. No easy answers there.
The answers are easy my good man when you don't over think things too much. Would any of the posters on here trust the EAR to take a 5 year old boy to Santa's Village to spend a day unsupervised? I don't think so. If you do then you are a softball. I wouldn't trust the EAR to watch a house cat for a weekend since bestiality wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for a criminal this perverted.
I wouldn't trust a psychopathic serial rapist murderer with a pet rock - he'd probably throw it at someone. I'm pretty sure the only reason the EAR didn't harm any small children during his reign of terror was because he was not sexually attracted to them, they were not part of his fantasy, and he knew that harming a child would have increased the heat on him to levels that would have forced him to stop.
But the correlation between pedophilia and childhood sexual abuse cannot be denied. The research shows that the vast majority of people who are sexually attracted to children were themselves abused as children. I don't believe that the same is true with sex offenders who target sexually mature victims. I think society could benefit from more research into sexual abuse and the minds of sex offenders, because it such a pervasive problem. Few people realize the massive toll sexual violence takes on our society. It's something most people prefer not to talk or think about and that silence is a large part of why it continues.