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I don't know that pedophilia will ever gain acceptance like other forms of sexuality that occur between adults. If anything, rather than moving towards an acceptance of it, we are moving further and further away from it. As has been noted already, there have been times when engaging children in sexual activity was not necessarily taboo.
I think pedophilia, as opposed to homosexuality and sadomasochism, is taking a route (in our Western psyche at least) as did that of slavery and, consequently, child labor - ie, authoritarian domination over those who do not have a choice is bad. In the case of children that domination being either perceived or literal.
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