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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If they are born that way though, they can't be faulted for the sexual orientation they were born with. Yet their sexual orientation - which they can't choose or change - hurts others. So how do we acknowledge the struggle they have to have a sexual orientation that they can't change and that they didn't choose but that is socially unacceptable, and hurts others. [b]Is it fair to ask someone to suppress their natural sexuality? [/b]how do we deal with this?

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Yes, because they are hurting children. [/quote]

And also, th overwhelming majority of pedophiles aren't "born that way." They are made by the sexual abuse they experienced. [/quote]

Sexual orientation minorities (non heterosexuals) also have much higher rates of sexual abuse as well as other abuse and traumas and general childhood maltreatment. I don't doubt that pedophiles are impacted as well by childhood maltreatment. However it isn't a 100% correlation. It makes sense that abuse and trauma - that impacts trust, sexual identity, safety, attachment, self-worth, relational competencies would impact sexual orientation as it impacts almost every area of development. However like personality there are innate qualities that for some people override nurture/ abuse. Not all people who have been abused are non heterosexual and not all people who are non heterosexual have been abused. The same is true for pedophiles - not all have histories of sexual abuse - some are just born that way.

[url]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20395586[/url]
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15803252[/url]
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01926187.2011.627318#.Ugkyo23ZNC4[/url][/quote]

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