Okay guys here is an interesting subject that I would like to hear your opinion on. I am interested in what you think about pedophiles having a mental illness and that is what causes them to do the things that they do. I was talking to a social worker the other day about this and she blatantly told me she has a bias against pedophiles but she too has heard the studies that have been done. So here are some facts.

This fact is well known in the social work field but I could not find the article I was looking for to back it up. Doctors and scientist and psychologists have been studying the human brain for years and their main interests have always been with those people that have committed crimes. The reason for this is because those who have committed crimes their brain waves are not “firing” the same way as what they is called a normal brain.  They believe that this is what is happening and that it truly is an illness. The other piece of information with this is that it’s a pedophile is just continuing a cycle. Nine times out of ten a pedophile was a victim him or herself. They are just continuing a cycle that they do not know how to break.

Here is some more information for you too:

A pedophile is a person who over at least a 6 month period has recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (age 13 years or younger). The fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The person is at least age 16 years and at least 5 years older than the child or children. Not to include an individual in late adolescence involved in an ongoing sexual relationship with a 12 or 13 year old (straight or gay). Individuals with pedophilia generally report an attraction to children of a particular age range. Some individuals prefer males, others prefer females, and some are aroused by both males and females. Pedophila involving female victims is reported more than pedophilia involving male victims.

Reference; Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, American Psychiatric Association, 1994.

There are 374,270 registered sex offenders in the U.S. Over 2,000 children are reported missing every day. The chance that your child will become a victim of a sexual offender is 1 in 3 for girls, 1 in 6 for boys. Source: The National Center for Victims of Crime

The following address will take you to the WebMD website that has a good explanatory article on pedophiles:  http://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/features/explaining-pedophilia

So what do you guys think? A mental illness or not?

I have told you many times before
And warned you more than once
I have came to the conclusion
It is time for you to hear me out

I don’t want to do things alone
When we are suppose to do it together
I don’t want to live separate lives
When we can count on each other

You push and pull until there is no more
And then you push and pull more
I ask about compromise and that doesn’t work
For your set in your ways
No way out

Why can’t you listen and feel my pain
What about the uncertainty of where I will end up
I have asked and pleaded to my ends wit
I have seen no results

You play on my fears
And go your own way
Say I ask too much of you
Yet I have gave you all of me

I don’t understand, nor will I ever
Why you can’t see what I feel
Miles apart is hard on the heart
But most of all it plays games in the mind

Wait did I say that or was it your words
It was your words for I see what’s there
So listen for once and stop being stubborn
If you love me you will listen