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Um… because a rapist is someone who commits a violent assault, whereas a pedophile is someone with an aberrant sexual attraction. A rapist by definition has committed a violent assault, whereas it’s very common for pedophiles to recognize that they have a serious sickness and refrain from ever attempting to act upon it. I’d wager that is even the majority of cases.
How ever did you see them as being the same?
Yeah and I’m not a professional scientist but there will be far different things going on in addition to the simplest basics of sexual mechanics. Also, rape is not merely a sexual act - the sexual component is in actuality just a means to an end, which is control, power, dominance, anger, defiance, revenge, misogyny, complexes such as inferiority, oedipal - the list goes on. The sexual aspect of rape is its most minimally significant - from the perspective of what’s going on in the perpetrator’s biochemistry etc.
Well kind of the sex aspect. I was wondering how it chemically worked or biology worked in the body. It just can't be a serotonin high. The brain still has to rush blood to the penis to get hard. But what causes that difference of such a abhorrent acts? Is it serotonin for both? If so how does it differ between places to send it? Is it a combination of blood flow and serotonin working together? Is so how so? Does our bodies do that for any other things?