"Meh, semantics. I think you're being extremely nitpicky. The bottom line is the same: we have suffered because we have these attractions."

"Atheist," "Infidel," its just semantics. When the Taliban string you up all that matters is that you suffer. It really doesn't matter why does it?

"I think something you have to remember is that you are lucky enough to also be attracted to adults. Even if you're not dating one at this time, you're still in a culture that reinforces the adult part of your orientation at every turn."

Oh, I am aware. This is why I see through the claims that Pedophilia is exceptional. The two orientations feel no different. The frustrations I experience in my desires being thwarted feel no different. My ability to "resist" "urges/tempation/whatever" feel no different.

What does feel different is that society seems to be trying to tell me that my Heterosexuality is all about top-heavy bottle-blondes with shaved pubes. And that society is trying to shame me and make me feel I'm defective over my Pedophilia.

But that shaming started early for me because I realized I was an Atheist loooong before I knew I was a Pedophile. And believe me, the distortions of the Antis in both regards feel no different.

I know its possible for the exclusive to believe that all their frustrations and setbacks are due to their orientation. But I just can't see how all the negatives which come with being a freethinker wouldn't have arrived even in the absence of Pedophilia.

I'd have missed out on many good things. But I'd have been unable to evade anything negative I've felt.

"You don't have to rip him a new asshole over every little fine point of disagreement."

I don't believe that the question of whether its the Taliban or you who are the cause of your suffering is a little point. Blaming the victim is never a minor thing.

Dante