badreligion
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I think there's a detail here that most people miss. Clearly, molesting a child is deeply immoral, for all of the reasons you state. But what about the pedophile who keeps to himself, masturbating to mental images of kids he saw at the park? No children were harmed. They won't even know. I would allege that such behavior is "creepy," but I would equally allege that it's not immoral.
I think as long as the person is consenting, there is no possibility of psychological harm, even if they didn't know you have a fetish. Still, I do think of all the nonconsensual tickling that people talk about on the forum. It's usually just a few seconds or minutes, but the victim really did hate it. Many people on the TMF seem to think this behavior is okay, because it's "just tickling." Yet how many people have we met, as adults, who are freaked out about tickling to this day because of an awful tickling incident from years ago?
I'm really just posting here to in the hopes of conveying some subtlety in these issues. Not everything involving pedophiles is immoral. Not everything involving tickling is harmless.
It's not just immoral its also a felony .