Pedophilia as a condition has a lot of potential causes, and we don’t really know very well to treat it. Many patients with this issue would rather be cured, and experience significant distress from their condition. Meanwhile, we don’t have much to offer them. Psychotherapy and libido-suppressing drugs are the main treatments.
There’s a good chance this will be… interpreted wrong, but that’s okay.
I think that it is possible AI chatbot companions can potentially simulate an adult companion, while also offering a softer introduction of the traits that normally keep sufferers from forming healthy relationships.
An AI companion is typically unintimidating, does not reject you, easy to please, gentle of words and easily impressed.
At the same time, they could be given instructions to be an adult and resist any indulgence in behaving as otherwise.
I don’t know if there’s anything to it, but maybe the right-designed AI companion could offer some pedophilia sufferers an easier AND ethical way to try out practice relationships and help them overcome barriers to adjusting their attraction to what can otherwise be very intimidating (dating other actual adults).
When I think of sufferers trapped in such an awful condition, needing to take basically reverse-viagra, afraid of hurting kids, I feel a lot of sympathy, and it would be an interesting application if this could help.
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