A lot of people in this thread are talking out their ass. That means anyone who said "go to a therapist" or "kill yourself." Let me ask you people. Have any of you actually thought about what you would do if you woke up one day and suddenly you could only get turned on by children?

It goes against all intuition that a pedophile should go to a therapist. It took me roughly two years of self-hatred and private agony for me to come to terms with myself, but if I had spilled the beans to someone in a weak moment I'm sure it would have been a lot worse. It turns out that I am hardly even a pedophile myself, but I'll get to that later. A therapist cannot cure you of pedophilia. He can do several things: be quietly disgusted by you, go to the authorities, or surrender his feelings and rely on the science of psychology alone to assist you in your suffering. But consider this: pedophilia is currently considered a mental disease in the DSM-4. Our society's reaction to pedophilia is fright, not sympathy. The first two reactions are far more likely than the third. A therapist cannot do anything for you that you cannot do by yourself, and more likely than not you will need to build up your self-reliance and inner strength if you are going to live a happy life. So, put that suggestion aside unless if you become suicidal.

As for the second suggestion. I believe there are many kinds of people who have less reason to live than a pedophile. When I was in my own crisis I would occasionally find examples of this and quietly treasure them. The wide variety of experiences available to you is not limited by the fact that you are a pedophile, as life would be if you suffered from blindness, hemophilia or autism. Each person has their own burden to bear in life, and yours is simply something you can't tell anyone about. As long as you go no further than that, you are safe.

But now to advice. As I alluded earlier, my concern with pedophilia turned out to be mainly caused by worrying too much. I like children, and I liked lolicon at the time. The former is simply one of my virtues and the latter is caused by my retardedly Freudian fear of giving a woman any power (I also like bondage). By fretting over this I formed an association in my mind which took two years to break down. So, allow me to give you a recipe for how to stop worrying.

1. No child porn. It may provide some thrill to you but it will also increase your worrying because it's illegal. Shota is defensible, if you really can't go without it.
2. Talk with people in person, as much as you can. It doesn't matter if you're totally lame at conversations because the truth is a lot of people are lame. But the more you act like a normal member of society, the stronger a case you can make to yourself that you are normal. That's not just psychology, it's common sense.
3. Minimize computer usage or else you will be doomed to post more threads like this elsewhere.

You can't be cured or rescued from your sexual orientation, but you can gain a better understanding of the faults that stem from it, or the mistakes you're making that you have control over. That's all the advice I can give. Godspeed.