The cause of sexual attraction to young children is not understood and believed to be not “curable”. Wiki tells us that:
“Pedophilia emerges before or during puberty, and is stable over time. It is self-discovered, not chosen. For these reasons, pedophilia has been described as a disorder of sexual preference, phenomenologically similar to a heterosexual or homosexual sexual orientation.These observations, however, do not exclude pedophilia from the group of mental disorders because pedophilic acts cause harm, and pedophiles can sometimes be helped by mental health professionals to refrain from acting on their impulses which cause harm to children…”
“[Studies] suggest that there are one or more neurological characteristics present at birth that cause or increase the likelihood of being pedophilic.”
So, presumably this would open an argument that the condition is “natural” (in the sense that some use that term), and this may be advanced as creating certain rights or at least a certain tolerance.
However, for so long as we hold that children have limited capacity to decide what is good for themselves, it is difficult to see how pedophilia could ever be legalised. It would put at great risk one set of people in order to meet the desires of another. No, I think Pedophilia would seem to be a cross that those who experience it are really just going to have to bear.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia#Causes
