To think that "Rehabilitation" is a joke, because you can't change who someone is sexually attracted to!

[BeachBlondey]

Inspired by the Gary Glitter latest story.

Why as a society, can't we accept, that you cannot fundamentally change who someone is sexually attracted to?

For example - no amount of "rehabilitation" will stop paedophiles being attracted to children.

We know that conversion therapy does not work (barbaric!)

Furthermore, you can't read people mind's, and of course they will say that they feel rehabilitated, because they know that this is their key to being released.

Further still, what happens when you ban someone from indulging in their sexual fantasies for years on end? Surely, the amount of sexual frustration and desire will build and build and build.

If a rapist has not had sex with a woman for 10 years, when he is released from prison, isn't he far more likely to be sexually frustrated and thus more likely to attack quite quickly?

If a paedophile hasn't been around children for 10 years, surely the first time he is around children, his sexual urges will go in to overdrive, probably to far more dangerous levels than ever before, because he will have an appetite that has not been sated for decades.

I am a female heterosexual woman, and no amount of "rehabilitation" forced upon me, would make me stop wanting sex with men. Nor would it magically make me fancy women. But, if I was in prison for having sex with a man, of course, I would tell the parole board that I was cured. And I'm sure that having been celibate for 10 years, the first thing I would want to do upon release would be to have sex with a man.

I'm so sick of sex offenders being released, who very quickly go on to reoffend, resulting in some poor innocent person being attacked or killed. We are constantly risking the safety of the public, under the guise of people having been rehabilitated, despite us seeing evidence to the contrary all the time.

When released prisoners reoffend, I would like to see the members of that Parole board penalised, either with being fired from their jobs, or being given monetary fines.

I realise that a big issue is space in prison. We either build more prisons, or consider medical castration maybe? We cannot keep placing the public at risk.

Exactly.

Fucking. Hell.

Another suitable punishment for these that hurt children is dipped in surgical acid an inch a day. They are scum end off.

Sorry sulphuric acid.

This is very interesting!

She already said. Build more prisons or chemical castration

Do you have no empathy at all?

Are you completely incapable of imagining what it is like to be in that situation?

It could be you, or your child, or your sister

Some are castrated out of choice to stop themselves from hurting others

Gary Glitter didn't go to prison for being a paedophile. He went to prison for sexually abusing children. You can be a paedophile and not commit the criminal offences that result from acting on your sexual desires.

People manage it every day. I'm a heterosexual woman attracted to adult males. I manage to get through every day without forcing myself on any adult males.

This.

Secret Life the channel four drama from 2007 addresses these questions. It tends to agree that there's not much to be done beyond helping these men sit on their urges.

exactly. Being a paedophile and being an offender are two completely different things.

Many people who sexually abuse children are not actually paedophiles, just sadistic bullies who revel in power

You should change your user name to Devil's Advocate, because you're just being silly now.

‘And if you realised you had paedophilic feelings, which, by the way, could happen to you in the near future, the only option you could see as available to you would be suicide?’

What the actual fuck? how many people just wake up with paedo thoughts? You’re making it sound as though this is a run of the mill thing that can happen to anyone at anytime like losing their job? That’s ridiculous. I can 1000% guarantee it will never happen to me. Paedo’s are deeply deeply disturbed people who cannot be cured.

no, you cant guarantee it will never happen to you

No I am not, I have done a lot of work in suicide prevention, and have spoken to people in this situation many times

Do you have this much empathy for the victims and how it impacts them for the rest of their lives, or is it all reserved for those mythical pure and innocent paedos that have never even looked at a picture of a child being abused?

Ha!!! You have NO idea of they’ve offended or not, like they’d tell you anyway! Of course they’d tell you they’ve never done anything 🙄

Anyone who can get a boner over abusing a child or baby, is a fucking paedo. What the hell is wrong with you?

these people are not mythical, they are real, and they do not have any victims

You mean they’ve never been caught.

some may have, but I take them at face value if I am trying to talk them out of suicide. Some definitely haven't.

How many tell you they have abused a child? What’s the percentage?

I am leaving this thread, because there is no discussing this with people who are so hell bent on waving their pitchforks that they simply don't care if they are waving them at innocent people.

Any one of you could be in that situation

Any one of you might have friends or family in that situation, but they are unlikely to ever tell you.

A lot of you are very ignorant indeed of the difference between being a paedophile and being a child abuser

So I am hiding this thread now, you just carry on being ignorant, and waving your pitchforks around, there is clearly nothing I can do about it

I wonder though Popplesareus - you, as a heterosexual woman, who is attracted to adult males, have no shortage of ways to fulfil your sexual desires, with no adverse consequences, because what you are doing is 100% legal. As a woman also, the chances are, that you could easily have sex with a different man every night. Your desires and urges, thoroughly quenched.

A person who has desires which are not accepted, and more than that, are illegal and mean jail time, could I'm sure suppress those urges for a while - but for how long? Not life.

And what about the Incels - similar theme - they can't get women to have sex with them.

Or members of certain religious groups who are meant to be celibate - how often do you hear of sex rings going on within them, or cults, that always (quelle surprise), seem to sexually deviant.