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149: What if you committed child sexual abuse?

This Is Actually Happening

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Compulsion Pushes Away Cognitive Process

"I would feel like, you know, it's okay. I'm doing all this hard work," he says of his sexual attraction to teenage boys. "It wasn't conscious. It wasn't so much in the forefront of my consciousness,. as it was a kind of a haunted feeling." He writes: "When you're compelled to do something, when you feel a compulsion to dosomething, you just do it"

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