There is a big difference between abusing children and looking at pictures of (abused?) children.
No. No there isn't. You don't get off on images of child abuse without sharing the guilt of the gross betrayal pictured within.
You might not be to blame for the dysfunctional sexual urge you have as a pedophile, I do get that it isn't a choice to feel like that, but you are responsible for ANYTHING you do to indulge that urge external to your own brain. That *is* the choice pedophiles make, to act on their urges, which are toxic and harmful to wider society as well as the child.
So, no, there is no playing it down or trying to minimise it. You can think whatever thoughts you like, what you can't do is externalise them in any way whatsoever. You don't have that right as a pedophile because your sexual predilections are damaging to others.
So, looking at a picture of someone robbing a bank is the same as robbing the bank your self?
You guys are retarded and have no actual sense of justice. I am out of this thread, but I am still looking forward to the thread Brad Harrison is making about me, since in his logic I have to be a pedophile, if I don't have the moral compass of someone living in the Wild West.