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Am I a pedophile? Confused about my sexuality..

Postby Concentration123 » Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:57 pm

Ever since I was an adolescent (Im 16 and a half now), I have had a foot fetish. Ever since I came into high school (and of course theyres a lot of hot / pretty females 9th-12th) I've vividly fantasized a lot about them and "doing stuff" with my fetish, and as I got older I fantasize more about it (especially since my fetish has never been fulfilled). But the disturbing thing is that sometimes, when I see a pretty pre-adolescent female I relate them to my foot fetish.

Unlike what I fantasize about my fetish with girls in my grade / older women (like 20- 30, who are very fit, have long legs, wear short shorts.are attractive and tall), Im not aroused by relating my foot fetish to pre-adolescents (like girls up to ages 12-13) and I frown and quickly brush the fantasies aside, but its the fact that I relate my fetish to pre-adolescents that worries me. I also feel weird/awkward hanging around pre-adolescents, for a reason that I cannot figure out why.

Also I remember browsing 4chan and seeing this image:
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and the fact that she was sitting like that with a small skirt and her legs wide open aroused me a little, but again considering she is very young I became very worried.

On the other side, when I go for my long runs on the streets and I see children playing I never find myself being aroused by their presence / having sexual fantasies (besides the foot fetish fantasy that never arouse me but disturb me nonethless) about them that genuinely arouse me: usually, I look at them for 1-2 seconds and they disappear from my thought process and eyesight.
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Re: Am I a pedophile? Confused about my sexuality..

Postby sprooglestrewft » Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:05 pm

I can't say whether most people truly lack sexual arousal towards children or whether the arousal is just less dominant and quickly suppressed (perhaps, your situation.) I suspect that the truth is much closer to the latter.

If you are a foot lover it doesn't surprise me that you relate your fetish to pre-adolescents, or even if you were curious about prepubescents. After all, they all have feet, just slightly smaller versions of them.

For me it's just as simple. I like legs, and prepubescent girls also have legs. For the most part once girls reach 7 or 8 their legs don't change much in shape, and neither do their feet. Of course this doesn't mean much to guys who are strictly breast or butt lovers. For the rest of us, I'd think having no arousal to girls under 12 or 13 would be strange. As long as the desire isn't especially intense, there's nothing out of the ordinary in what you are experiencing (I think.)
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Re: Am I a pedophile? Confused about my sexuality..

Postby Concentration123 » Wed Jun 26, 2013 7:47 pm

^So I guess you could say I'm a "1/5th" pedophile? XD (What I mean is like a pedophile with 1/5th of the required sexual attraction to children in order to be diagnosed as one)
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Re: Am I a pedophile? Confused about my sexuality..

Postby Siamese Fever » Wed Jun 26, 2013 8:16 pm

Stop browsing 4chan, kiddo. It's bad for ya'.
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