@T2the2ndpowr The reason I didn't use the word mutation was because I don't think this is necessarily nature or nurture. The field of psychology is not separated from biology if anything, the more we learn about psychology, the more we admit to ourselves how much biology plays a role. The reason I I shared the article about the 40-year-old men who developed pedophilia due to his tumor. Teaches us two things. One, our brain is related to our behavior and impulse control, and two, there our brain is in control of a preferences. Not just through nurture but even through nature/physiology.
When looking at psychology, which is a study of human behavior and the mind. The question of nature verse nurture is a bit outdated. Both nature and nurture play a role in it. You are right to say that pedophiles who commit sexual abuse overwhelmingly are abused as children. Even more so are abused by a family member. So when I talk about pedophilia I specifically mean attraction to prepubescent children. This does not include whether they abuse.
I just don't see how with the breath of knowledge that we have about human psychology. That even food preferences can be shown to have genetic predispositions, why would the sexual attraction not have such a thing as a genetic predisposition.
Arguing that it's more nurture the nature begs the question. Can we turn the peoples sexual desire towards children? Can we make someone a pedophile? And if yes can we do the same thing regarding homosexuality. .
Or even zoophilia
