[bvw]

Also the article raises the latent-pedophile bogeyman -- there can be as many as one wants to imagine, and anyone can be one:

No one knows how many pedophiles there are because no large-scale surveys have been done. And, because most never act on their sexual fantasies, researching the issue is problematic.

Problematic, but gee golly, they know they are out there -- everywhere!

[anniegetyourgun]

At least 10% of the population, right? Why, next they'll be telling us that they were born that way - that God gave them a "special gift" to "love" children. Or that they are hardwired such that to look upon an adult in sexual way is repulsive to them. Blah, blah, blah.....

My guess is that about 10% our entire population is twisted on so many counts - and it's all the same 10%.

[Richard Kimball]

No one knows how many pedophiles there are because no large-scale surveys have been done. And, because most never act on their sexual fantasies, researching the issue is problematic.

Sometimes these guys remind me of Humpty Dumpty in the Alice books. Words mean what they want them to mean. Everybody, and I mean everybody, has desires they don't act upon. If I had done everything I wanted to do, I'd be 5 million dollars in debt and serving 50 life sentences. He fails to make the distinction between having a desire and acting upon it. There have been several times in my life that someone has crossed me, and crossed me badly. On a couple of those occasions, I hated them so badly I wanted to kill them. I didn't do it. No reasonable person would call me a murderer simply because I've been mad enough to kill someone. Why? Because I've never killed anyone.

Similarly, whatever animal, vegetable or mineral an individual finds sexually attractive makes no difference, until they act on those desires.