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Old 05-28-2008, 09:38 PM   #122 (permalink)
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i am thorougly sick of people comparing homosexuals to paedophiles.

Pedophilia is linked to reduced activation in hypothalamus and lateral prefrontal cortex during visual erotic stimulation.
Biol Psychiatry. 2007 Sep 15;62(6):698-701. Epub 2007 Apr 2.
PMID: 17400196 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Functional brain correlates of heterosexual paedophilia.
Neuroimage. 2008 May 15;41(1):80-91. Epub 2008 Feb 20.
PMID: 18358744 [PubMed - in process

Brain response to visual sexual stimuli in homosexual pedophiles.
J Psychiatry Neurosci. 2008 Jan;33(1):23-33.
PMID: 18197269 [PubMed - indexed for

for the benefit of others, this research involves looking directly at the brain in real time in paedophiles when they are exposed to sexually explicit photographs of children and adults. then comparing it to normal people exposed to the same images, and homosexuals exposed to the same images.

the response of normal people is the normal response, it involves specific areas of the brain becoming activated in a typical and predictable pattern that indicates sexual arousal. there is not a sexual response to children.

this happens when straight men see images of women, when gay men see images of men, when straight women see images of men, when gay women see images of women. the response in these cases is identical.

but when paedophiles see images of children, their brains respond differently. when a paedophile becomes sexually aroused by seeing children, their brain is not doing the same thing that other peoples brains do when they are sexually aroused. their brains are functioning abnormally. the nature of their sexual response is NOT THE SAME as the other people. they are different at a neurological level, predictably different, qualitatively abnormal.

so please can we stop with the idea that paedophilia is no different to homosexuality ?
Just as your earlier "evidence" only looked at homosexuality after the fact and with no basis. Your "evidence" here only looks at pedophilia. No one here says that homosexuality and pedophilia are just the same. The differences between the two are obvious. But so is the difference between homosexuality and left handedness, race, and red hair. Yet we see those comparisons made as well. So don't get so indignant when the logical similarities between two biologically similar actual sexual urges are compared. The differences between the two as it relates to sexual orientation are slight at best. Especially when you remove the reproductive and physiologic aspects of sex. Something you have to do to even begin to consider an innate urge to copulate with a same gendered person is normal.
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