Should pedophilia be considered a sexual orientation; an historical look at researched pedophilia

BY SIMONE J. SMITH

“Pedophilia is something that a person is born with — a sexual orientation like heterosexuality or homosexuality — and has no cure,” Klaus Beier

Before I go any further, I am curious about readers’ thoughts on this quote? Is pedophilia something that a person is born with?

Pedophilia as a recognized sexual orientation has gained relevance with a rising number of organizations and academics. The advocates of child-like sex dolls, and the sexual depiction of minors in drawings and cartoons regard pedophiles as a class that should be protected against the enormously popular punitive laws designed to punish child sex offenders.

According to RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization, law enforcement databases house hundreds of thousands of reports of offenders who trade child sexual abuse material online. Less than seven percent of these cases are ever actively investigated.

Community, children are being sexualized, and pedophiles are now supposed to be referred to with neutral, not disparaging language. Multiple states in America have removed measures that exclude pedophilia from being considered a “sexual orientation,” opening up the path to providing protected class status to “Minor Attracted People.”

Sexual fantasies relating to children typically occur in the context of secrecy, but peer support groups and social media have changed this. Pedophiles now openly indulge in fantasy enactments, ritual, fetishization, and drawings that depict children in sexual motifs, and they no longer need a dark web chat room to do it.

Let’s take the now famous “Little St. Jeff,” aka “Epstein Island,” aka “Pedophile Island.” The guests to Epstein’s islands came from across the world and from the highest ranks of society: celebrities and scientists and members of royal families, touching down in a private jet and then boarding a helicopter to the island.

A criminal complaint from the attorney general of the US Virgin Islands described it as “The perfect hideaway and haven for trafficking young women and underage girls for sexual servitude, child abuse and sexual assault”.

Media sensationalized this story, and now it has become modern pop culture. What many don’t know is that before there was an Epstein, there was a man named Alfred Kinsey hailed as the “father of the sexual revolution.” His open and curious attitude about sex brought the subject into the mainstream. He wrote two unprecedented and in-depth explorations of human sexuality known as the Kinsey Reports and has been credited with paving the way for the sexual liberation and gay rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

What was controversial about Kinsey is how he conducted his research. Indeed, there is a far darker side to Alfred Kinsey’s legacy.

Kinsey declared that one of his goals was simply to show that “Nearly all the so-called sexual perversions fall within the range of biological normality,” or that no matter what sexual urge one may experience, this is natural, normal, and acceptable.

Alfred Kinsey ultimately collected around 5,300 “sex histories” from his subjects which he published in the first of his two-book series known as the Kinsey Reports, the explosive 1948 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.

He further asserted this claim with 1953’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, which was also so successful that Kinsey made the cover of Time that year. This attention came with great criticism, and for good reason.

He allegedly encouraged his research associates to engage in sexual activity with each other and pressured students and team members alike to engage in that activity with him. It was reported that Kinsey’s assistant, Clyde Martin, even engaged in a sexual relationship with his wife.

Kinsey kept recorded video and image evidence of sexual intercourse between subjects, assistants, and friends. Some of these he even participated in. He collected erotica from around that world which was deemed illegal by the U.S. Customs Service.

Here is the part that we need to pay attention to, because I truly believe that this was the genesis of what we are seeing in modern day society. Kinsey went so far as to research sexual stimulation in children as young as five months old.

One of the subjects he interviewed for Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was a 63-year-old pedophile named Rex King who had attempted “To bring boys to orgasm who were between the ages of 2 months and 15 years.” It only recently emerged that this data around sexuality in children came from one single man in Kinsey’s research, rather than from the several that Kinsey had initially claimed.

Behind all behavior that we see in our current society, there is a catalyst, and although pedophilia has been around for centuries, witnessed in certain cultures and religions, what needs to be examined is how this is intricately restructuring healthy sexual expression.

So again, I ask readers, Is pedophilia something that a person is born with, and should it be considered another sexual orientation?