I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation last week on paraphilia and its associated disorders. It always fascinates me as to what people can be attracted to. For example, on the wiki page the diagram showing different paraphilias and one of them is inflatophilia where the individual loves and is aroused by inflated things such as balloons. The diagram even says the people can get turned on by the thought of people inflating, it's so fascinating! Interestingly, my younger brother had an experience with a person that may have been an inflatophile. He works at party city and was asked to fill balloons for a man who he later found out comes in twice a week to watch someone inflate balloons for him. His coworkers mentioned that the man enjoys it a little too much, needless to say my brother no longer inflates balloons.
Other than that, I thought it was interesting to hear that not all pedophiles are child molesters and not all child molesters are pedophiles. This really stood out to me when the group discussed the concept of the gold star pedophile, who are pedophile's but refrain from engaging in any behavior associated with an attraction to children. I can only imagine the daily struggles individuals like these go through and it's unfortunate, due to society and laws surrounding pedophiles, that these individuals are treated to the same degree child molesters are.
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