i have thought about this subject a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that there are two kinds of pedos, just like there are two kinds of gays. One are just like that, and they just want actual children and don't like adult women. The other develop a fetish for teenagers and children due to various tendencies within themselves, but it's solipsistic, they don't really love the kids at all, they're just using them as sexual objects.Theyll still fuck adults, they just have fetishized some aspect of the child.
I think that second group can be healed, because it's just fetishistic hedonism, the former group though need to be castrated or something, they're just wired wrong. The second group is way bigger than the first one, there are entire tribes where the majority of the men engage in pederasty, which means the behavior can be learned.
Im not a pedo myself but I do idealize children because of their innocence, and I can sort of see how you would jump from that to sexual impulses if you just indulged in a fetish. That's the main reason I think cp should be completely banned, because owning it doesn't really hurt anyone, but it can turn people into predators, and whenever someone posts it on this site, I can see exactly how the two impulses would merge.
Writers are usually kind of mentally wild and it's not hard for their brains to rearrange to accept taboo impulses. Nabokov for example clearly had tendencies towards that, despite his proclamations to the contrary, you can't write that stuff without sort of getting it, I think he just overrode it, which is the correct path to take.
also women have this just as much as men, the amount of pedo women who predate on boys or girls is very high, and it's pushed under the rug as most crimes by women are. I was myself technically raped by a 32 year old woman when I was 13, i didnt see it as rape at the time i just thought it was cool because i was like being an adult, but looking at pictures of myself back then, my baby face and soft clear skin, I think it was pretty clear why that woman did what she did. I've never told anyone ever about that either, not a single person who knows me knows that happened and i don't want to tell them, I still feel that i really lost my virginity at 16 with my first gf, because that time wasn't really sex, it was just weird, we didnt even kiss, she just undressed me and sucked my dick and then went on top of me until i came, and she sort of laughed, and then we did more lines of coke until I felt weird and i left, and rode the train home crying while listening to elliot smith, but after I calmed down i didnt feel wronged, it was like some secret i had.
It kind of made me convinced that it is wrong for older people to be with younger people, even if they think they look pretty or whatever. It just made me so sad after a while that memory and that i cant tell anybody about it, i sometimes present a sanitized version of it but i cant just say it.