OP here. Had to take a while to build up the courage to look at the responses.
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>If it's just cartoons I can understand, they're cute yes... but I don't see how you could have a sexual desire for young children.
Although I can understand perfectly how you can separate the two, it's hard to deny that there isn't some connection. The conditioning upon the real ones, feeling disgust and shame among all the other emotions, give the illusion it's something completely different than the drawn ones. But as time passed, I found it increasingly difficult to fool myself into believing it's fundamentally different.
>Have you sought out help?
If I had, I wouldn't exactly be asking you guys.
>if its shota, stop watching and distract yourself, you will eventually get over it.
Even heard of people with whom that approach actually worked?
>If its actual people seek help, especially if you work with children (or deliberately found yourself a job in that area )
I don't work with children.
How do you imagine they could help me? Since when is there a cure for pedophilia?
>>5
Yeah, that too.
>>6
Actually, if a therapist would classify me as being a danger to society, he has the ethical duty to report me. I don't know of merely being a pedophile is enough, but I'm not willing to risk it.