I'd argue it's partially biological, and partially due to trauma sustained in childhood

waste of food to feed a lobotomized vegetable

@randomNPCno3 that’s not the only thing

That’s just the headline

I’m left handed

Labelle et al. 2012 suggests that heterosexual and homosexual pedophilia are also familial

to an extent

Anyway class is starting here so I need to go

(so there are one or more gay genes, contrary to what LGBT people say)

I wonder if paedophilia is cultural

Yeah, but the headline is cickbaity and causes unnecessary confusion

@Cleric Garrus taking away the lives of people is far less of a punishment than having them spend their lives in confinement

@Snake just remember don’t rape kids

espc as a vegetable

@grazzt Yes, it likely is also a cultural thing, too

(RE: Muslims and Indians)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxo-1hYy2c

Shim et al. 2014 suggests that genetic influences and related genetic vulnerabilities appear to be more important to the causes and development of pedophilia than environmental factors, including childhood abuse.
(in a study of monozygotic male twins with pedophilia)

I'd argue that any genetic connection might show up as a cultural expression

It's more likely that there are a couple of factors that cause pedophilia

-familial connections (IE. if you were molested, you might be more likely to molest)

-genetics

-culture

Repressing trauma and trying to normalize it would do that

Genetics eh?

Yeah, specifically relating to Serotonin and the PGRN and GTS genes (Comings, 1994 and Rainero et al. 2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM5YxIgo2BQ

Has there been a study on the connection with the normalization,of transgenderism and its increase

https://youtu.be/IZRm4uBF_I0

I can imagine that the causes can be quite different between pedo/ephebo/hebephilia too, even though it's often all called pedophilia.

Yeah, that's probably true

Pedo is probably the one most-likely influenced by trauma sustained during childhood (cultural influences, too)

I mean, some people call attraction to 17yos pedophilia just because it's illegal in some states, and the causes there would be widely different, most likely.

I'd argue that hebephilia isn't NEARLY as bad as pedophilia or even ephebophilia

mainly because older teens generally LOOK like adults

what is it exactly? like around 14?

Hebephilia is like 15-17 IIRC

but lemme check

okay nvm

I'm retarded

well, then I'd say that just fine