Using your proposed analogy we are more like Alcoholics Anonymous than anything else. We reconize that we have a problem and that we cannot act on our desires but we also know from our collective experience that ignoring it will not make it go away but will only make it go away.

Well why don't you try to find the root cause of your problem? I've been reading though the articles and I have to tell you that it really look bad when you have poems, and songs about young boys. It doesn't look as though you're trying to find out why you feel this way, but rather you're giving people an outlet for their feelings. Granted that is somewhat healthy, harboring any emotion is dangerous, but it still doesn't resolve anything. Does that make sense?

To use your analogy, do you think it would be useful to help an alcoholic to degrade him and make him feel less than human just for his impulses even if he never once drinks? I should think your answer would be no. People who do this to us are acting from their gut reaction and societys blind hatred for us. In the end they are doing more harm to everyone than good.

I agree that degrading any human does more harm than good, but you have to realize that what you are thinking is not in the norm. Thinking about sleeping with a 12 year old is almost as bad as sleeping with a 12 year old. It's dangerous, and there are parents on my board that are furious to think that someone could be thinking about their kid in such a way.

Do that to a man for his entire life and see what kind of human being you get. It is not the pedophilia that makes a person messed up it is treatment like that their whole life.

What's the reason for the pedophilia? That is what makes these men messed up, the root cause. There must be some reason these men feel the way they do, what is it? Were they molested? Are they gay and were taught to believe they are evil, so they pushed that feeling deep, deep down until it turns into pedophilia?