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Originally Posted by Thom Yorke
I wouldn't define it as a mental illness. You could almost call it a fetish. There are certain things that turn people on that they can't control and that's one of them. There are very few things that I think that people should not be allowed to practice, and paedophilia obviously falls into that category.
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Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g. in psychiatric medicine, as a disorder of sexual preference or as an enhancing element to a relationship causing a better sexual bond between the partners.
Today Psychologists and medical practitioners regard fetishism as normal variations of human sexuality[citation needed]. Even those orientations that are potential forms of fetishism are usually considered unobjectionable as long as all people involved feel comfortable. Only if the diagnostic criteria presented in detail below are met is the medical diagnosis of fetishism justified. The leading criterion is that a fetishist is ill only if he or she suffers from the addiction, not simply because of the addiction itself.
Pedophilia is not a fetish