Whenever we read about the ancient past, the brutality of life is pretty much a given and never factors into criticism of historical figures. People were regularly genocided or sold into slavery like it was nothing. However, there's a huge elephant in the room when all of this is brushed off with "it was a different time". Many historical figures had concubines or were married to what would be classified today as children. Women were married off to older men or wealthy nobles as soon as they began menstruating, which could be as young as 8-10 in some cases.

Today pedophilia is classified as a mental disorder. By definition, it cannot be reasonably applied to the majority of men that lived and died throughout history. The implication that men only overcame some form of mass psychosis less than a few centuries ago is absurd.

So are academics just lying about it? Or is it just just silently agreed upon that this form of deviancy is simply excused if it happened XXXX years ago?

>>512108659
>Greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece

The problem with modern, western pedophiles is that most of them were themselves a victim of it and as a result they become one. Human sexuality is rather complicated and many details affect it. One of the strongest desires for sexual contact with children by pedophiles who themselves were victimized, is the feeling of POWER. It’s similar to heterosexual men engaging in promiscuity, it increases their ego, and some of them with strong desire to feel powerful (especially to hold power over another human being) engage in sexual acts that are considered to be dehumanizing. In extreme cases it ends with rape.

Pedophiles often suffer from psychological and emotional issues and the two most common ones are feelings of being powerless and resentment towards the world in general for what has happened to them, hence some of them want to "corrupt" the children and victimize them as both a kind of "revenge" for what happened to them and in order to feel “powerful”. For them sex is often more about power than pleasure.

In many cases (in the west) it's a generational issue, and most of the problems stem from the culture itself. In societies where pedophilia is normal or at least semi-normal, children rarely complain about its effect on them. Sometimes it's exactly the opposite, as in less developed societies it allows them to rise up the social ladder by being a "lover" of powerful men. It's similar to prostitution in modern Asian countries, such as Thailand.

1. https://theconversation.com/the-causes-of-paedophilia-and-child-sexual-abuse-are-more-complex-than-the-public-believes-94915
2. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00940/full
3. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19392397.2010.511157?journalCode=rcel20
4. https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/4478390

In short-what's "wrong" to you, is desirable for others. It all depends on the environment and the culture.

>>511308645
>Greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece

The problem with modern, western pedophiles is that most of them were themselves a victim of it and as a result they become one. Human sexuality is rather complicated and many details affect it. One of the strongest desires for sexual contact with children by pedophiles who themselves were victimized, is the feeling of POWER. It’s similar to heterosexual men engaging in promiscuity, it increases their ego, and some of them with strong desire to feel powerful (especially to hold power over another human being) engage in sexual acts that are considered to be dehumanizing. In extreme cases it ends with rape.

Pedophiles often suffer from psychological and emotional issues and the two most common ones are feelings of being powerless and resentment towards the world in general for what has happened to them, hence some of them want to "corrupt" the children and victimize them as both a kind of "revenge" for what happened to them and in order to feel “powerful”. For them sex is often more about power than pleasure.

In many cases (in the west) it's a generational issue, and most of the problems stem from the culture itself. In societies where pedophilia is normal or at least semi-normal, children rarely complain about its effect on them. Sometimes it's exactly the opposite, as in less developed societies it allows them to rise up the social ladder by being a "lover" of powerful men. It's similar to prostitution in modern Asian countries, such as Thailand.

1. https://theconversation.com/the-causes-of-paedophilia-and-child-sexual-abuse-are-more-complex-than-the-public-believes-94915
2. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00940/full
3. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19392397.2010.511157?journalCode=rcel20
4. https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/4478390

In short-what's "wrong" to you, is desirable for others. It all depends on the environment and the culture.

>>715740080
>18
fag

>>510257879
>Greece

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederasty_in_ancient_Greece

The problem with modern, western pedophiles is that most of them were themselves a victim of it and as a result they become one. Human sexuality is rather complicated and many details affect it. One of the strongest desires for sexual contact with children by pedophiles who themselves were victimized, is the feeling of POWER. It’s similar to heterosexual men engaging in promiscuity, it increases their ego, and some of them with strong desire to feel powerful (especially to hold power over another human being) engage in sexual acts that are considered to be dehumanizing. In extreme cases it ends with rape.

Pedophiles often suffer from psychological and emotional issues and the two most common ones are feelings of being powerless and resentment towards the world in general for what has happened to them, hence some of them want to "corrupt" the children and victimize them as both a kind of "revenge" for what happened to them and in order to feel “powerful”. For them sex is often more about power than pleasure.

In many cases (in the west) it's a generational issue, and most of the problems stem from the culture itself. In societies where pedophilia is normal or at least semi-normal, children rarely complain about its effect on them. Sometimes it's exactly the opposite, as in less developed societies it allows them to rise up the social ladder by being a "lover" of powerful men. It's similar to prostitution in modern Asian countries, such as Thailand.

1. https://theconversation.com/the-causes-of-paedophilia-and-child-sexual-abuse-are-more-complex-than-the-public-believes-94915
2. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00940/full
3. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19392397.2010.511157?journalCode=rcel20
4. https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/4478390

In short-what's "wrong" to you, is desirable for others. It all depends on the environment and the culture.