GirlChat #456370
doc on IPCE that backs up some of my crazy ideas
Posted by
madpenguin on 2008-December-04 06:52:58 EST, Thursday
Just found this one, although it's from 2004. A graphic near the bottom is of particular interest; it shows what most here describe, that their AoA stays the same early in puberty while their peers' keeps rising. Note that it shows the ages of the first people one is strongly bodily attracted to, and the data appears to support my idea of the AoA being created by a mean of those numbers. However, a key detail contained in that data means that the AoA can't be caused by a mean of those numbers, it can only be correlative: male pedophiles' first attractions are to girls younger than themselves, while non-pedophiles' first attractions were to girls older than themselves... and these first attractions were pre-pubertal! As in, preceding emergence of sexuality and sexual attraction. The author hints that pedophilia is not a sexual orientation, but is essentially a protection instinct-created attraction (as I mused once before) that somehow obtains a sexual component later.
The one flaw with the reasoning that it's not a sexual orientation, is that I know of how some gays, as boys, noticed that they were attracted to other boys. I can explain this by the ambiguity of the word 'attraction.' The paper specifies 'bodily attraction' as in attraction to another's body. The gays I'm referring to may have been referring to another type of attraction, if they felt it prior to puberty.