@JoeyOhSoClever Compared to non-sex offenders released from State prisons, released sex offenders were 4 times more likely to be rearrested for a sex crime.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=1136
This is really interesting reading about it:
Since the 1960’s, studies using this device have been done with thousands of men. Subjects sit in a private room while the operator exposes them to a series of slides, videos or audio tapes with sexual content. Many so called “normal” men who have not committed illegal sex acts show considerable arousal to stimuli depicting naked children or children involved in sexual activity. (e.g. Freund, et al, 1972, Behavior Therapy, #6) Based on this kind of evidence, it’s easy to see that adult sexual attraction to children is rather natural.
But natural isn’t the same as “good” or “right.” Any impulse to do or take what we want is “natural.” We may for example, feel an urgent and natural need to urinate or empty our bowels. But rarely will we do so except in special places designated for that purpose, even at the cost of considerable discomfort from delaying this “call of nature.” And how many of us haven’t thought at least momentarily of killing a misbehaving child, an insensitive spouse, or a demanding and insensitive supervisor? But, while accepting our human “nature” in these areas, we also recognize the importance of keeping our impulses under control and generally, we do so.
In short, when it comes to urination and defecation, property acquisition or interpersonal violence, we seem able enough to separate thoughts and desires from behavior. But when it comes to sex, and particularly sex with children, we tend to go beyond merely controlling our ordinary human nature in favor of civilized behavior. We declare war on it. We fly in the face of historical and scientific evidence by insisting that sexual arousal to children is unnatural or “sick.” We refuse to accept our “selves,” pretending instead that we are somehow naturally “pure” in this one (sexual) domain.
http://ccoso.org/newsletter/whymolest.html