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I believe that I was born a pedophile, because I have had feelings of sexual attraction toward children and love for them for as long as I can remember. I was not traumatized into this age orientation (the violently mutilating genital assault I sustained at birth called “circumcision” notwithstanding), nor, certainly, did I ever make a conscious decision to be attracted in this way. Just as homosexuals and heterosexuals discover their sexual orientation, I discovered my age orientation as I grew, and I have been aware of it from a young age.
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Silva, D.C. (1990). Pedophilia: An Autobiography. In: Feierman, J.R. (eds) Pedophilia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9682-6_19
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