Hayley Caronia

These kinds of obsessive thoughts and patterns can manifest in many different ways.

And I struggle to make sense of pedophile-themed OCD.

This woman is having pedophilic thoughts, whether she's acting on them or not.

She is having pedophilic thoughts.

That's what it is.

There's no way to sugarcoat this.

But you see how this is being explained away as a rare form of OCD?

Do you think that they would give the same kind of diagnosis to a man?

Or would he just be a pedophile because he is?

This is why pedophilia can never be normalized.

Whether therapists or other institutions or groups want to normalize it as a mental disorder or a sexual attraction, it needs to be exposed as the vile crime that it is.

And all of the perpetrators need to be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

When parents usually have conversations with their children about, you know, finding a trusted adult, like if you ever get separated from us, they say, go find a woman, right?

Go find a woman.

I saw a TikTok the other day of this man saying, I'll tell my kids if they ever get lost in an airport or a store, go find a woman with a jean jacket on.

She'll help you.

And I think in most cases, that's true.

But it's...

You have to teach your children not to be really trusting of anyone.

And unfortunately, we just live in that world now where you can't just go run to a woman and think that she will help you.