I think it goes a bit deeper than that.
Like the article says, it's almost 'natural' for heterosexual men to have some level of lizard-brain sexual attraction to females once they begin to present as being fertile/pubescent. It's our moral/cultural compass that decides at what age that sexual attraction becomes appropriate (18 in the UK, currently).
Being attracted to infants is something completely different. It's much more of a psychological disorder than an issue of morals. There is absolutely no evolutionary explanation for paedophilia. It's simply a case of having a faulty brain. I'm sure there are a few proper fucking wrong 'uns out there who revel in their paraphilic tendencies (Savile, Watkins, etc). But I suspect that most paedos arent paedos by choice - especially if the 1 in 50 figure is accurate.
Either way, whether its infants or adolescents, it's only really an issue of you make the choice to act on those urges. And it's always a choice.
(, Mon 13 Oct 2025, 20:41, Reply)