I would disagree.
Sexual attraction to innocent, vulnerable children IS harmful to children. It's predatory and preys on the innocent and vulnerable.
Let me introduce you to my chart:
Sexual attraction falls clearly in that blue area, where you are talking about the orange area.
In other words, if it is attraction in the same way that heterosexual men are attracted to women, it is not predatory at all, and brings up a fairly large crisis for those with that attraction. Mainly, they want to be emotionally/romantically/sexually connected with a child, but doing so would be unethical and harmful, so they are essentially stuck with a sexual attraction they can never act upon. Plenty of
research shows there exist many non-offending pedophiles, people who have a sexual attraction and have never harmed a child. It is quite logical to assume that sexual abuse is not even the result of attraction when two-thirds of abusers are heterosexual.
So, could you explain how exactly having an unchosen attraction to children makes someone a risk to children? Are you a therapist? Have you read research? Do you know there is a causative link between attraction an abuse? Where is that link demonstrated?
Do you disagree based on how you feel, or do you disagree with the facts that I provided? I can cite multiple sources for all of this:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299657027_Non-Offending_Pedophiles
http://http//www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19317611.2013.795921
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13552600.2015.1056263
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/ncjrl/pdf/I C A C/2012 - October 15-16/A - Child inappropriate contentography Offenses Are a Valid Diagnostic Indicator of Pedophilia.PDF
Do you want me to dig up some other articles, or is that sufficient to support my claims?
In regards to the title of this thread, ending the preying on of innocent, vulnerable children, starts with protecting the most vulnerable from the predatory appetites of those who "prey" on these little ones.
And that begs the question: Who are the people that abuse children? Are they strangers? No, 93% are those we know and trust. Are they pedophilic? Mostly no, two-thirds are not. Are they all middle-age adults? No, half are juveniles themselves. I could swear I addressed all of those facts in the OP, but just in case, you can drop by my site where I explain - with full references - how sexual abuse happens:
How Abuse Happens
No, there are not ads. No, I do not ask for donations. I am here to discuss, and frankly, re-posting the same content over and over is part of why I wrote that site in the first place.
These innocent, vulnerable children and their well being and safety has priority over anything regarding those who prey on these innocent ones. THAT is where "ethics" begins:
Protecting the innocent.
Everything else is secondary.
Great, so how do we do that? Do we protect children when we ignore the facts of how abuse happens? Do we protect children by focusing the bulk of our money and attention on 5-10% of the problem and ignore prevention? Do we protect children by stigmatizing a sexual attraction people did not choose and can never act on?