A young woman's account of her paedo-erotic interests

['Cindy', a female paedophile:] It is my experience that male paedophiles are more sexually directed. Sex seemed to have first priority. Other things were secondary. That is really the only difference I see. For the rest it's much like what I have experienced. But maybe I'm wrong. [...]

It isn't important any longer to find a cause [for her paedophile feelings]. I mean, I don't want to get rid of those feelings any longer. Maybe that's the difference. Now I think these paedophile feelings are wonderful. At least when people don't make such a fuss about them. I no longer need to know where they come from. [...]

Children aren't inhibited. They don't have fixed manners like adults. That makes me feel free.

source: Article < "The World Is Bursting with Adults, so I'm Always Glad to See a Little Girl": A Young Woman's Account of her Paedo-Erotic Interests > by Theo G.M. Sandfort; Paidika - The Journal of Paedophilia; Special Women's Issue; Volume 2, Number 4, Issue 8; Amsterdam; Winter 1992