Sounds like your have the possiblity of becoming a pedifile if you have the those urges. PLEASE don't do something stupid like stalking those girls or worse! You really should talk to a professional about this.

I actually sort of feel the same way. The thing is, people are often attracted by the looks of children because plastered on a child's face are huge eyes, a button like nose, and sweet lips. A child or a baby's face is also very symmetrical which is very attractive, and symmetry is held as a universal trait of beauty. The essence of them is so very innocent and and they also have very soft skin and their faces are unblemished. I mean I can't blame you for feeling such strong feelings about them. It's probably more of a mental/perception beauty thing that may also somehow be meddled with some sort of sexual feeling that you probably would never act on.

Heh. I'm 15, and I don't care. I think its fine as long as you don't rape anyone. Personally, I think the consent age should be when we hit puberty. If you can masturbate, you can fuck. End of story.

im 18 and im attracted to some 12~15 years girls too. (NOT younger than that). you know, those girls who already have some idea of what sex is and such.
i think its ok to think like that, just DO NOT do anything stupid (like raping some girl / forcing her to do something / try to insinuate you like her / talk or act sexually)
i guess if shes like 13 or older (and knows what she is doing) and if she is the one who tries something at you, i guess its ok to start playing her game hehehe

eh, i could be wrong too, as im probably as pedophile as you, lol. but yeah, im sure that some 13~17 girls CAN be hot, and that a lot of other guys think the same.

I repeat, just be careful with what you do man, once I almost got caught with a hard dick while looking at a girl, damn

I agree if you can maturbate you can fuck as long as it fully consentual

I work with kids, and I recall one of my workmates saying...
"You can tell she'll be hot in a few years when she's older"

Discuss

Also yeah I know exactly what you mean, dont even consider acting on it and keep it to yourself, there are brainwashed people around that won't understand at all

Well, you can't change how you feel. However, even if they seem to consent, they could still have great feelings of regret and remorse afterward. I know I did. And I still do. And my sexuality is permenantly warped. I won't go into detail but some days I hate myself for the whole thing...
I now find pedophilia attractive... and I hate it...

Thanks for all the feedback. I feel a bit more comfortable now. I am a good guy and would never act upon it, and I myself would feel regret and remorse even if someone of that age consented to it. Any sexual connection with someone of that age is unlikely, and i would avoid it because it is against my personal morals, even if their mental maturity surpasses their age.

Thanks a lot :)

Thats an interesting point to bring up. I don't find that any more inappropriate to comment to a mother that their child is 'cute'. I suppose a man saying that would cause a skeptical reaction, but women comment on the 'attractiveness' of children all the time.

However the quote of your friend is interesting. The term 'hot' is generally used with a sexual connotation, and in that workplace i would consider his adjective inappropriate.

You are quite right. Its best to keep this to myself, because like you say, people on the whole likely won't understand and will misinterpret my intentions as a responsible adult.

Perhaps I should describe my feelings as an acknowledgement of there youth, rather than an attraction, as I would never allow myself to have a relation with one of such age.

hey weren't we like only seventh or eighth graders when we were thirteen? guess what, thats not old enough! I don't care if they know what sex is or not, I'm not giving a 13 year old the lookup when she turns around.. bottle these feelings up boys!
what's the best the best thing about taking a shower with a 13 year old?
slick her hair back and she looks eight! ha!

First, the comment that "she's going to be hot when she's older" is bogus. I know plenty of kids that were cute, but turned out butt ugly older. That's one reason to postpone marriage until about 30 or so...

Second, calling a child cute is completely different than thinking "Oh yeah, I'd do that kid." What the hell is wrong with that poster? Perv...

Third, you may think that pubescent children are secually attractive, but trust me. If you were to actually engage in this act, you were, in addition to your current disgust, feel grossed out by the whole thing. You are idealizing in your mind some misplaced attraction. Instead, see that these children are sexually gross, shapeless androgenous blobs with odd fluids and residues coming out of them that smell like the nasty. If that doesn't eventually do it, get a shrink, because the people commenting are probably full-fledged members of NAMBLA who scour this website all day to try to recruit members.

I don't think you are necessarily a douche, and I think it's okay to get help in dealing with this crap. This is a psychological problem. Most of these sexual compulsions are misplaced desires that are not rooted in reality...except for those truely demented cases.

Ya know, for most of human history (and still in some cultures) a girl was expected to "marry" when she reached puberty. Obviously most modern societies have developed beyond that (thank God) but it does suggest that men may be genetically conditioned to find post-pubescent girls sexually attractive, whether or not they are of legal age (which varies from country to country). Like so much of our evolutionary legacy (xenophobia, territoriality, etc.), such feelings are often destructive to modern society.

So it's nothing to be ashamed of, but as you say, something to keep a firm lid on.

Having said that, whilst I'm writing, I believe a sexual attraction to pre-pubescent girls is not normal, and from what (little) I have read is often a result of childhood trauma and definitely needs counciling for.

I think it is normal. Look at the age of consent in France and Japan. Its about 12 or 13. Those countries aren't considered to be sick perverts.

Look at this research found on wikipedia:
"The extent to which pedophilia occurs is not known with any certainty. Some studies have concluded that at least a quarter of all adult men may have some feelings of sexual arousal in connection with children.[20] A study by Hall et al. of Kent State University, for example, found that 32.5% of their sample — consisting of eighty adult males — exhibited sexual arousal to heterosexual pedophilic stimuli that equaled or exceeded their arousal to the adult stimuli.[21] Freund et al. (1972) remarked that "with males who have no deviant object preferences, clearly positive sexual reactions occur to [nude] 6- to 8-year old female children."[22]

In 1989 Briere and Runtz conducted a study on 193 male undergraduate students concerning pedophilia. Of the sample, 21% acknowledged sexual attraction to some small children; 9% reported sexual fantasies involving children; 5% admitted masturbating to these fantasies; and 7% conceded some probability of actually having sex with a child if they could avoid detection and punishment. The authors also noted that "given the probable social undesirability of such admissions, [one could] hypothesize that the actual rates ... were even higher."[23]

Feierman (1990) predicted that 7-10% of men are sexually attracted to prepubescent boys."

People like you are not rare. It is just so taboo that no one will talk about it. The one thing that people need to learn is that just because a person is a pedo does NOT mean they will molest children. That is like saying that just because a normal guy likes women he is going to become a rapist.