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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Randu
- From: Randu@cup.portal.com (Randall - Jabaay)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Pedophilia as sexual orientation
- Message-ID: <74485@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 23:36:07 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <3019510926011993/A07347/POSSE/1171D2702400*@mrgate.uwyo.edu>
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- >>Roy@panix.com writes:
- >>Pedophilia is a sexual orientation. Sexual abuse is an illegal assault.
- >LASAGA@corral.uwyo.edu writes:
- >Pedophilia is _not_ a sexual orientation...Well,would you consider a
- >rapist to have a sexual orientation to rape?
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- I believe we have a problem with terminology here. I would say a
- rapist is sexually _inclined_ to rape,but a man who rapes women is
- still sexualy _oriented_ to women the same as a normal heterosexual man
- who _doesn't_ rape women. A child abuser or rapist is not necessarily
- sexually oriented towards children,but is inclined by some some mental
- defect to do so. A pedophile,on the other hand,feels as natural about
- his sexual orientation to children as a hetero,homo,or bisexual person,
- feels about their own orientation. A pedophile had no more choice in
- choosing that orientation than any other person had in picking theirs.
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