TLDR: There’s a ton of potential causes, and it’s an underresearched topic. There’s no real way to change the preference, only deal with and mitigate urges.
Not to the point it becomes entirely ineffective. The point here is that we don’t have a better way of dealing with or treating people with this issue. It’s the least-worst option we have available to us.
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Pedophilia isn’t a sexual orientation
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Could you link yours? I’d rather not go digging though that stuff right now.
I’d compare it more to a fetish.
https://psychcentral.com/disorders/causes-of-pedophilia
TLDR: There’s a ton of potential causes, and it’s an underresearched topic. There’s no real way to change the preference, only deal with and mitigate urges.
But this doesn’t mitivate the urges then if you want to put it that way.
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You don’t get desensitized to porn over time?
Not to the point it becomes entirely ineffective. The point here is that we don’t have a better way of dealing with or treating people with this issue. It’s the least-worst option we have available to us.