Originally Posted by
Mall Security
A child generally lacks the capacity to have a two way relationship in a sexual capacity, so yes, it is a fetish, not the same as say a gay or heterosexual couple, who are committed to one another for more than just sex, but even they aren't, being gay doesn't automatically assign that you are loving someone or wanting sex with someone incapable of making that informed consent.
Love that is nothing but a 1 way street isn't love, especially when you don't acknowledge the harm your sexual actions would have. So yeah, I reject the notion that pedophilia is either love, or anything other than a sick fetish, and whether it is genetic or someone is born that way is irrelevant, that isn't the singular threshold for why it is illegal anything else is not.