Re: My take on this

"This my perspective on my attraction - I may have a sexual attraction to pre-pubescents but that doesn't mean I will inevitably see this as natural or anything other than coming from some faulty process in my history or development and certainly there is no requirement to justify the attraction."

The attraction is the thing which can be known.

People once presumed that Homosexuality was merely Heterosexual development gone wrong. However there are several flaws with this. "Normal" sexuality varies wildly across cultures. And yet despite these variances there are still all these other orientations. One would expect to see a sample without it if it were not naturally occurring.

To anthropomorphize "nature;" how can Ghod not love us when He keeps creating so many of us? And He creates us from all manner of backgrounds.

Many have presumed to isolate the "cause." And yet people lacking the "cause" continue to express the orientation. ( And, of course, nobody treats the majority sexual orientation as something which needs to be explained. )

We understand Homosexuality better now. This doesn't mean that there aren't self-loathing Homosexuals who feel a need to impose on themselves the old cultural pathology relating to their desires. It just means, with ever increasing clarity, that the "loathing" is the cultural pathology which is disappearing; not the orientation it was applied to.

"That is one thing that I have always thought, that our sexual interest is so intrusive into their lives, and is probably the main reason why I have determined not to act on any desires I might have."

Good. Only a jerk would be intrusive and act out their desire on one who clearly isn't interested. But this has nothing to do with childhood and everything to do with being civil. The adult male who "hits on" anything in a skirt will soon find themself jobless. Their selfishness will alienate customers, clients, friends who are married-monogamous &tc.

Peds should be considerate too. However, its also inconsiderate of others to presume for them what they want. Even if I chose not to reciprocate, I should at least allow for another the possibility that they want for themselves things I don't want for myself. Or, the possibility that our desires are mutual, but cannot be acted upon due to some other context.

"Many incestuous relationships probably develop because this line is crossed and normal affection and love turns into sexual interactions. Perhaps this is initiated by either party but since the adult is the one possibly responsible for the child's welfare then it is up to them to control such situations and to prevent them developing in the first place."

Incest is almost always a situational thing found in those who have no Pedophilic orientation.

However, my guess has been that its the "prevent such situations from developing in the first place" factor which results in potentially harmful interactions. The Heterosex have been taught that desire for children is unnatural and that children are asexual. They have been taught that the "situation" shall never arise, and that the contemplation thereof is a sign that they're sick.

So, unlike the person who has been taught that acting on a spontaneously arising desire for their neighbor's wife might result in trouble, they've had zero chance to rehearse the possibility that they might desire their children/step-children and NOT act on it.

This is further complicated by the conflation of Pedo with rapist and the ticking-time-bomb myth. They've been told that those who have such "urges" MUST act. And so they do.

"This issue of whether sexuality should be normal and encouraged in children does appear to be the main battle ground for paedophilia - one that I see them as losing but perhaps I am wrong."

There is no "should be" about normality. It just is. Children are sexual creatures. And no study of them has ever established that they weren't. No amount of discouraging it can make it go away. It can only mean that they won't share this aspect of their lives with the one discouraging them.

As with so many other things, children want to share with each other, but they also sometimes want to sound things out with someone who has more experience. Segregating them into units based on inexperience doesn't help them in this regard.

Dante