Template:Debate Guide:Arguments about attraction to minors

Too many people hold conflicting beliefs about pedophilia and other sexuality...

• Against: Pedophiles chose their condition - Like other orientations, pedophilia is not a choice.
• Against: Pedophilia is unnatural - How can an unchosen sexual orientation not be part of nature?

Popular anti-pedophile sentiments and common human flaws go hand in hand...

• Self-loathing hatred - What do violently anti-pedophile sentiments reveal about their beholders?
• Parenthood and pedophilia - Parenthood structures perceptions of the pedophile.
• Against: Only a pedophile would make this argument - Irrelevant and nonsensical.

Pedophilia and human sexuality are mischaracterised and misunderstood...

• The nature of human attraction - Why humans have a capacity for diverse taste.
• Against: Cognitive distortions - The justification for this slur against pedophiles is a fallacious, circular argument.
• Against: Sex and violence are as one in the psyche - There is no rational basis for conflating pedophiles' sexual interest with violence or psycopathy.
• Against: Corresponding age attraction - Questions the assumption of a unique "childhood" sexual orientation.