Wait a minute, are you saying that people are wrong to think that pedophiles are the ones who perpertrate most child sex abuse? I buy the claim that most people with pedophilic tendencies do not abuse children, but it does not follow from this that most child sex abusers are not pedophiles.
It certainly doesn’t follow in that way. Using the technical definition ‘person who has a primary or exclusive sexual preference for children’ rather than the colloquial ‘child rapist’ does open up the possibility. In particular it means considering all the people who sexually abuse children either because they are dicks (general abusers) who have a modicum of sexual interest and people who are ‘bisexual’ in that direction, desiring both adults and and children. The requirement that there be a preference rather than mere presence of sexual attraction makes the requirements strict. I’m honestly not familiar with the statistics on which types are most prevalent among child sexual abusers… it hasn’t come up as an important metric to investigate.
It certainly doesn’t follow in that way. Using the technical definition ‘person who has a primary or exclusive sexual preference for children’ rather than the colloquial ‘child rapist’ does open up the possibility. In particular it means considering all the people who sexually abuse children either because they are dicks (general abusers) who have a modicum of sexual interest and people who are ‘bisexual’ in that direction, desiring both adults and and children. The requirement that there be a preference rather than mere presence of sexual attraction makes the requirements strict. I’m honestly not familiar with the statistics on which types are most prevalent among child sexual abusers… it hasn’t come up as an important metric to investigate.