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Hugh_Lebowski

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12. I'm not going to say 'I know', human 'sexuality' if you will is highly complex
Sat Dec 11, 2021, 05:00 PM
Dec 2021

I don't know that it's unthinkable that pedophilia (NOT sexual interest in literal infants to be clear!) is an 'orientation'.

Our closest cousins are bonobos ... and look at when the sexualization starts with them. It's not 12 days, but ... it's commonly very young, well before sexual maturity. With little kids, essentially. But they're animals, and it is what it is

So it strikes me as *possible* this theory is on the right track in a general sort of sense. Doesn't make it 'okay', of course, but from an 'academic' perspective ... our genetic heritage may play somewhat of a role.

I mean, it usually does in most things ... humans are animals as well, and other than high-level intellectual stuff like harnessing the atom and such ... we pretty much act like it.

But to be clear here, I'm talking about interest in like 12 YEAR olds, not 12 DAY olds.

There's no freaking way the latter is 'orientation'. That is a sign of some major freaking emotional damage I have to think.

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