The pedophile is a child mentally. Often they were abused themselves or abused other children when they were children. As adults they are ashamed and act to remove their shame through sex acts with children in an expectation that it will be acceptable or the shame will be shared or offloaded to another child.
Pedophilia is criminal in addition to being perverse. It’s criminal in general as criminals often perversely reason that it happened to them so it’s Ok to do it to others. Pedophiles thus reason it’s Ok to have sex with children because it happened to them and there were no consequences as long as it’s kept quiet.
The adapted secrecy of pedophilia causes them to go underground and find each other forming networks of pedophilia and learning to protect each other including enriching and empowering each other. They may be placed in positions of power because their horrible secret provides a means by which others can control them. For example, Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert was a pedophile.
It used to be that homosexuality was the taboo that could be used to control people in power. But current social permissiveness has allowed them to tout their perversion as somehow normalized.
Normalization of pedophilia is up next.
The adapted secrecy of pedophilia causes them to go underground and find each other forming networks of pedophilia and learning to protect each other including enriching and empowering each other. They may be placed in positions of power because their horrible secret provides a means by which others can control them.