I didn't know that OCD could manifest as intrusive and unwanted sexual thoughts:
My doctor mistook my OCD for paedophilia
but yeah, seems this can be a thing. And I can understand how uncomfortable it must make other people feel (and how uncertain as to how to react) when they know someone is suffering from this.
I have no empathy for a person who thinks of parents, children whomever when having sex with their wife.
ReplyDeleteWeird , very weird
if it walks like a dog and barks like a dog it is a dog. not every pedo acts on his impulses either, doesn't mean they're not one
ReplyDeleteBit harsh folks. It seems to me a lot of people would have similar experiences, as the human mind loves to test the limits out. Always has. eg: “Obviously it’s wrong and bad to kill your dad: obviously it’s bad and wrong to sleep with your mum. Hey, let’s write about a guy who did both just to see how wrong and bad things can get!”
ReplyDeleteIt would seem that the big difference between the OCD type and the "normal" pedo is the distress that the former suffers at the fact they are having this intrusive, recurring thought. (And presumably, they therefore don't do anything to encourage it, such as looking for children or going to places to watch them.)
ReplyDeleteIf you know someone has the stressful OCD type, and tries to avoid all temptation, I think it makes sense that they would be very low risk of acting on it; but still, if I were the child's parent, I would only agree to supervised access visits until the condition was under control.
I don't think an child environment employer (a school or child care centre) however, could afford to take the risk. And really, if the guy was suffering from intrusive sexual thoughts about any child, would he really want to be around them until he got the condition under control?
Oh - I meant to say "such as looking for child porn.." in that comment above.
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