Markaba, it's kind of nice for me to hear I'm not the only one who thinks Dante's criticisms can be nitpicky.

It's kind of funny in a way. Nick's favorite disease analogy for pedophilia is "diabetes" and mine is more like "myopia" for me personally, but that's a bit whimsical of me and I think for most pedophiles Nick's is closer to the mark.

Here's the most basic test. Your darling sister has a new baby and it's a boy! Would you wish on this tiny nephew a pedophilic attraction? Or hope he likes adults? I don't hesitate there. To a lesser extent, I'd wish he was straight instead of gay. Life is a lot easier, even without the prejudice. If nothing else it's cool being able to make a baby (highly likely but not certain, I realize) that really is a part of each of you, and not having to take drastic and expensive measures to have a baby at all.

We have debated in the VP group whether we would take a pill to make our pedophilia go away. That's of course a different question, because we are who we are and it's a matter of identity, but I think over half of us would. I invented another pill that I would take: one that would give me a full attraction to adult women. I wouldn't take the pill that got rid of my attraction to little girls, because it really does feel like a positive thing to me, given who I actually turned out to be.