I agree with you Michael, we human beings are riddled with odd impulses and feelings. Some feel the need to disinfect everything in sight for fear of germs, some have secret stashes of chocolate for midnight feasting when they are miserable, others have an addiction to Facebook or even Mudcat. For the most part our own peccadillos are harmless enough, at least if not indulged in to excess, but for others they are much more harmful, either to themselves or to others, or indeed both.

When I was younger I knew of a young man (the boyfriend of a girl at college) who hanged himself because he was plagued with fantasies about sex with children. Another young man I knew, killed himself around the same time, because he had also sexual identity issues - he felt like a woman in a mans body. I think it's terribly sad that either of those two young men were driven to kill themselves because of feelings they had no control over, and the taboos our society (albeit less so for transgender people today) places over such difference.

There are of course huge problems implicated in the acceptance of paedophilia within society. The despicable Paedophile Information Exchange (or teh "would you like a list of children available for abuse, and where to access them club") being a case in point of offenders and wannabe offenders sheltered under the naive (or ideologically fucking stupid) support of liberal-minded activists back in the day.