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dharma69

NCBRI wrote:

When I saw the Southpark episode, I thought it was just something they had made up also. Since then, I have seen them mention the organization on The Daily Show a few times. Was shocked to find out it really exists.

That's what made that episode so outlandish to me....actually knowing that the organization was nowhere near anything as innocuous as the National Marlon Brando Lookalike Association.

And damned if that episode didn't get people to pay attention to the real issue. Those guys are genius at a frightening level.

Ahnimus

Scubascott wrote:

Huh? Who's advocating that?

wikipedia wrote:

Treatment

A number of proposed treatment techniques for pedophilia have been developed. Many regard pedophilia as highly resistant to psychological interference and have dismissed as ineffective most "reparative strategies."[38] Others, such as Dr. Fred Berlin, believe pedophilia can "indeed be successfully treated," if only the medical community would give it more attention.[23] The reported success rate of modern "reparative" treatment on pedophiles is very low.[38]

Non-medical therapies

Treatment strategies for pedophilia include a "12 step support system," parallel to addiction therapy, though such a system is generally regarded as the least efficacious method of treatment.[citation needed]

Another approach is cognitive-behavioral therapy. Usually, this is done by telling the pedophile to fantasize about sexual contact with children, and then, once aroused, they are given instructions to imagine the assumed legal and social consequences of such an action.[citation needed]

Medical therapies

Anti-androgenic medications such as Depo Provera may be used to lower testosterone levels, and are often used in conjunction with the non-medical approaches above. This is commonly referred to as "chemical castration."

Other programs induce an association of illegal behavior with pain by means of the more controversial aversion therapy, in which the pedophile is given an electric shock while fantasizing.[39] A study by the Council on Scientific Affairs found that the success rate of aversion therapy was parallel to that of homosexual reparative therapy.[40] This method is rarely used on pedophiles who have not offended.

[size=+1]Convicted sex offenders, including many pedophiles and homosexuals, have been treated by the psychosurgical procedure commonly known as lobotomization. Psychosurgery has long been controversial, particularly the historical use of surgical intervention on homosexuals given that homosexuality is no longer considered a mental illness by the psychiatric community[/size] (see for instance Rieber et al. 1976;[41] Sigusch 1977;[42] Rieber & Sigusch 1979;[43] Schorsch & Schmidt 1979)[44]

[size=+1]Thalamotomy is an alternative surgical treatment of sex offenders in practice since the problems with leucotomy have been commonly known[/size] (see Greist 1990;[45] Diering & Bell 1991;[46] Hay & Sachdev 1992;[47] Rappaport 1992;[48] de la Porte 1993;[49] Poynton 1993;[50] Bridges et al. 1994;[51] Cummings et al. 1995)[52] [size=+1]and is increasingly advertised as an "effective therapy" for sex offenders (as well as for some children suffering from symptoms of child sexual abuse, since the 1980s [/size](see for instance Andy 1970;[53] Bradford 1988a;[54] Wyre & Swift 1991;[55] Abel et al. 1992;[56] Bridges et al. 1994;[51] Cummings et al. 1995).[52][size=+1] As and Curfman have noted, however, given the availability of psychopharmacological treatment options, psychosurgical interventions are not likely to be employed given their extreme side effects and irreversible nature. See the same article for an in depth review of treatment options and diagnostic criteria. Additionally Reid 2002 writes that neurosurgery for sex offenders is "essentially unavailable" in the United States and that data on its use is sparse[/size].[57]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia#Treatment

Well, ok, so it's not very popular. But it gave me a reason to post this wiki. This is the kind of stuff I think people should be aware of. I mean, lobotomization for convicted homosexuals. Look at how far we have come in understanding how people work. Yet, we are still stigmatizing these things and holding extreme hatred towards victims of clinical conditions. Pedophilia, is a paraphilia.

wikipedia wrote:

Psychology of paraphilias

Behavioral imprinting

Observation of paraphiliac behavior has provided valuable scientific information on the mechanisms of sexual attraction and desire, such as behavioral imprinting. Careful investigation has also led to the tentative conclusions that normal biological processes may sometimes be manifested in idiosyncratic ways in at least some of the paraphilias, and that these unusual manifestations are frequently associated with unusual (and especially traumatic) events associated with early sexual experience. They tend to be caused by classical conditioning in that a sexual stimulus has been paired with stimuli and situations that do not typically result in sexual response and has then been perpetuated through operant conditioning because the sexual response is its own reward or positive reinforcement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphilia#Clinical_definition

So yeah, just want people to read that shit, to know what they are really talking about when they attack a person with that condition. Sure what they've done is horrible, that doesn't change the fact they are people.