Well done, you must feel much better and freer.
On the general point, I used to think that paedophiles weren't to blame as such for their tendencies. That it was just another internal proclivity (albeit one that might have arisen for complex psychological reasons, rather than being innate, maybe). But I would never have Likened it to how society used to view homosexuals etc because consenting adults, of any sort, are not harming anybody, whereas paedophiles always are. (Though if the comparison was just to the idea, as above, that being gay is a psychological 'defect' that can be treated, then there is a similarity).
Jimmy Saville opened my eyes really. He was attacking children, old people, any and all sorts of vulnerable people. Just because he could (and presumably because he couldn't maintain a normal relationship, or thought he couldn't and didn't want to try and fail, so developed and practised the 'weirdo' part of his psyche instead). His was the definition of deviant behaviour; doing it because it was wrong, a sort of sick rebellion against societal norms and expectations - a big 'fuck you' because he wasn't up to the task of being a successful human being on society's most basic terms.
That made me realise that this is the same for a lot of (most? not sure about all though) paedophiles. They're odd-balls and fuck-ups of one sort and other, turned bitter, nasty and misanthropic and, like bullies, take out their frustrations on people smaller and weaker than them, who can't easily say no.