I feel very conflicted by this. So my father is a sex offender/peodophile and by a weird turn of events, my mother separated from my father since I was a baby became a federal parole officer with a specialization in sex offences.

So I mean I've experienced both sides. One of a monster and the absolute disgust we have as a community with sex offenders/paedophiles and my mother's experience working with them on a level of public safety.

I've always had a VERY hard time wrapping my brain around how my mother could work closely with them and discuss their fantasies with them and asses their likelyhood to re-offend. My mom explained to me once I moved across the country to live with her that being sexually attracted to children isn't a choice but a sexual preference much like our preference of opposite sex or same sex relationships. She taught me that a sex offender has the highest rate of re-offending as they lack the ability to control their sexual urges and castration them (as many people like to say we should do as punishment to these people) wouldn't stop them from molesting children.

Despite this my mom beleives in a paedophiles ability to be rehabilitated if the desire to change is there. Again not their sexual preference (that will always stay the same) but rather the want and desire to never commit an offence to a child again. It's always been a conversation that I've been open to have in order to understand but because of my own experiences I tend to dig my heals in. This documentry is very interesting one I would love to watch with my mom. No matter how to slice it it's a very touchy subject for most people and if this man is in fact virtuous as he claims I do feel bad for him, but I also cannot suspend my hatred/disgust enough to go full sympathy card for him.