“The best we can do is help a person maximize their self-control and to help them build an otherwise happy and productive life.” “There is no known way of turning a pedophile into a nonpedophile,” says Cantor. And what research has been done, says Cantor, isn’t very encouraging if you’re looking to free yourself from your attraction to children. Unfortunately, science doesn’t know much about pedophiles like you, pedophiles who haven’t done anything, because the social stigma is so great that most nonoffending pedophiles never seek treatment. It’s a lifelong struggle for “good pedophiles,” and most manage to succeed without any emotional support-to say nothing of credit-whatsoever. As I’ve written before, we should acknowledge the existence of “good pedophiles,” who are burdened with a sexual interest in children but who possess the moral sense to resist acting on that interest. “Pedophiles are not the only folks in this position, but they are by far the most demonized, regardless of whether they have ever actually caused anyone any kind of harm.”

James Cantor, a psychologist and the editor in chief of the research journal Sexual Abuse. “My heart goes out to people to whom nature has given something as powerful and as distracting as a sex drive and no healthy way to express it,” says Dr. What the fuck do I do? Live alone and hope Japan starts producing affordable sexbots before I’m too old to care? My sex drive was put together wrong, Dan. Can I keep babysitting my friends’ kids when they need a hand? After all, if I were into adult women, people wouldn’t see anything wrong with leaving me alone with a couple of those. Am I obliged to tell anyone? Good way to lose friends and get the shit kicked out of me. So what the fuck should I do? Chemical castration? But I haven’t DONE anything and I don’t plan to. I don’t even look at kids in public, and anyone of whatever orientation who’s been to a crowded beach knows how hard that can be. I’m not stupid or evil, so I’m not gonna do anything. Let’s say, theoretically, I’m a pedophile.

The Dawn of Evil by L.E. Parker