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<p>Created page with &quot;Graham is a young man living with a painful secret: he&#039;s sexually attracted to children. He&#039;s tried to get help but therapists want nothing to do with him. Despite what many m...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Graham is a young man living with a painful secret: he&#039;s sexually attracted to children. He&#039;s tried to get help but therapists want nothing to do with him. Despite what many might think, he&#039;s not a child molester. Graham, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, first realized that he was sexually attracted to children when he was about 12 years old. &quot;I noticed that I was getting older and the girls I thought about were either not getting older or in fact becoming younger,&quot; he told Life Links in an interview.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> It was hard for Graham to come to terms with his sexuality, especially during puberty. &quot;I felt like I was carrying a dark, empty place deep within me, but that everyone could see it if they looked hard enough.&quot; Eventually, when he was 17, Graham got very drunk and told his mother about his sexuality over the phone. &quot;I don&#039;t remember the conversation. I just remember the need to let things out.&quot; While Graham says his mother &quot;accepted it,&quot; she told him she did not want to know any details. From that day on his pedophilia &quot;could not be spoken of.&quot; [...]&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> What Graham experiences is called pedophilic disorder and is characterized by a persistent desire for sexual contact with a prepubescent child or children. Diagnosis requires that an individual has either acted on their urge or been actively distressed by it. It&#039;s unknown how many people suffer from pedophilic disorder but estimates suggest that one in 25 men may actually meet the criteria. Despite the often accepted belief that sexuality isn&#039;t a matter of choice, stigmatization of people with pedophelia is high, with little distinction made between being sexually attracted to a child and acting on that desire. Describing child molesters simply as pedophiles, as Britain&#039;s notorious Daily Mail tabloid for instance did in August 2014, weakens a distinction that is otherwise crucial in how we judge a person - by their actions, not their desires.&lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;br&gt;<br /> &lt;i&gt;source: Article &#039;When society mistakes pedophiles for molesters&#039; by Kate Ferguson; www.dw.de/when-society-mistakes-pedophiles-for-molesters/a-18104211; DW.DE; 2 December 2014&lt;/i&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category:Kate Ferguson]]<br /> [[Category:Percentage with pedophile feelings]]<br /> [[Category:Percentage met pedofiele gevoelens]]<br /> [[Category:Daily Mail]]<br /> [[Category:UK]]</div>

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