Why do some adults feel attracted to children and not people of the same age range
In short, we don't know, and the fact that the ideas of child sexual abusers (which are not always pedophiles, similarly not all pedophiles are child abusers) and the stigma that comes with that is so tightly bound to the idea of pedophilia is a severe blow to doing good research studies to find …
The Short Answer
In short, we don't know, and the fact that the ideas of child sexual abusers (which are not always pedophiles, similarly not all pedophiles are child abusers) and the stigma that comes with that is so tightly bound to the idea of pedophilia is a severe blow to doing good research studies to find out the actual causes. As is we're pretty sure there are some biological issues in the brain that are linked to it, but we simply don't know much more than that at the current time (and as I noted it's rather difficult to do good studies to find out more).
Analysis
Key Concepts: Don't, know, child
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In short, we don't know, and the fact that the ideas of child sexual abusers (which are not always pedophiles, similarly not all pedophiles are child abusers) and the stigma that comes with that is so tightly bound to the idea of pedophilia is a…
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