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It is an interesting, however, what is worth noting is the exact quote you polled.

I don't understand why that particular passage was chosen either. I would have gone with the following:

Some people are sexually attracted to children too. The silent majority of such people who don’t act on their impulses – the good paedophiles – are often forced to manage their sexual impulses without any support. Dr James Cantor (@JamesCantorPhD), a psychologist, associate professor at the University of Toronto, and editor-in-chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment refers to such people as gold star paedophiles.

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The struggles of gold-star paedophiles have also been highlighted on occasion by sex columnist and ethicist Dan Savage (@fakedansavage). Savage echoes Dr Cantor’s opinion (this excerpt from his 4 February 2010 column):

We should acknowledge the existence of good pedophiles, people who are burdened with a sexual interest in children but who possess the moral sense to resist acting on that interest.

I elided the biological basis passage, since I don't think it's actually relevant to the argument and is at best a distracting correlation.

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