“shaming pedophiles makes them not want to seek treatment and actually leads to them hurting children”
Pedophilia is a mental illness that affects the development of a part of the brain and people should seek treatment/therapy when they start to notice that attraction, specialists will NOT JUDGE YOU, it isn’t their place to make you feel worse when you want to get better and if they do; drop them and go see someone else, there’s plenty of therapists/psychs/specialists out there eager to help you.
Prevent your urges from dictating your actions, you can get the help you need before your family knows anonymously, it is very hard for people to seek help when they know all it will do is get their loved ones shun them.
Don’t wait until you’re up and ready to commit your first offence, get some help.
You’re worthy of getting help, don’t wait please, Youre as human as the rest of us, you just need the tools to get your brain up and running in the right direction again.