Researchers say pedophilia may have biological roots

Truthspeak,
It’s unfortunate that you can’t see much beyond an intention to provoke in what I posted. Stunning also that you don’t seem to have reacted similarly to talk of exterminating groups of people. Historically, lots of people — lepers, HIV carriers, tuberculosis carriers, the obese, other people with whom it might be dangerous to interact have been treated as disgusting and evil (and it *would* be evil for one to pass on his or her illness to someone else casually or willingly) but we did not usually exterminate them. We don’t exterminate people born with deformities that have no evolutionary explanation or adaptive value, which has come up in this conversation. We also don’t object to “she didn’t choose to catch leprosy/HIV/herpes/etc.” as somehow excusing the behaviors of willingly — or deceptively — passing the diseases on. I think it would be terrible to live with any of these conditions, and then with added pariah status.

Nothing I posted was an “attempt” to minimize harm done to paedophile’s victims or excuse the molesting of children — unless you regard acknowledging that hairs do have to be split “excusing” — in our legal system, we DO excuse it when the perpetrator and victim are close in age. I think in some states we used to allow 14 year olds to marry if their parents approved. I don’t know if those laws are still on the books.

You and some others seem to be objecting to uncovering any explanation for paedophilia. Your interpretation of explanations or markers as an “excuse” will not change the fact that they are real, if they are uncovered — and it appears that this is be happening.
I imagine neuropsychology will also at some point establish markers for people who end up in the clutches of psychopaths — trusting, nurturing, needy of physical contact with others, any number of attributes that have some strong or weak correlation will show up in the literature. Do you like the idea of someone suggesting that women or men with these markers should be sterilized, because of the burden their vulnerability creates for their families or children or society in general? Or exterminated? For whom among us has “NO CONTACT with the spath” been effortless? You don’t see any analogy here? I see two different people, but both trapped in their God-given nature and God-created circumstances. I know I failed over and over in the NC with abuser department and avoid bad men department and live without men department. Even after I was medicated. In fact, I am single and suffering as we speak, for a year or two. I don’t mean from sexual frustration exactly, but I can’t imagine what my experience might have been like with a male sex drive on top of my need to be held/touched etc etc.

And no, “analogy” does not mean that the proportions are equivalent. And the analogy is not perfect.
But why not wait for Germany’s experiment to fail before you condemn this research? We don’t have evidence yet that their approach endangers children. If the article is correct, it has actually protected them — which is the whole point. This kind of research is likely to play some role in programs like Germany’s.

As far as the quote that raised your hackles. Paedophilia is tragic when acted on — I can’t imagine you disagree with that. When not acted on — you don’t think that bears some resemblance to other kinds of peoples experiences with abstinence? Some people are fine, others really suffer. And, at the risk of being characterized as a troll again, I imagine in some cases their life of restraint must qualify as noble. Certainly stronger than I (see again the NO CONTACT with spath comments above).