Every year, millions of children are reported as victims of abuse and of those children, roughly 10% are victims of sexual abuse. The sexual assault of an adolescent is generally viewed as a heinous crime in our society, and the desires that typically lead to these crimes are highly stigmatized, so the root cause of the problem, pedophilia, is still largely un-researched. The thought of people existing that suffer from pedophilia is often so appalling that the general public would rather put them in prison then to support the research, rehabilitation and therapy needed for prevention. Desire for help is so far out of reach for people who suffer, that if a pedophile shows in at a therapist’s office, it puts the therapist in a difficult situation, first because there are currently no guidelines on how to treat a pedophile who hasn’t committed a crime and secondly because therapists are legally obligated to report their clients if they feel they pose a threat to a child. There is virtually nowhere to turn for someone who suffers from pedophilia and hasn’t acted on it. It’s only after the person has committed a crime that they receive help, and that is an extremely backwards way to do things. Friedman (2014) reports that a 2011 lecture by James Cantor revealed that recent research indicates pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescent children, is actually a biological condition in the brain that individuals are born with, similar to handedness. Friedman (2014) uses the argument of biological conditioning causing them to be predisposed to committing crimes against the fact that the laws were designed to not to address the condition but to provide full maximum punishment. Friedman’s (2014) article shines a light on the stigma pedophiles face, especially within the legal system, as well as how sex offender laws should be reformed and refocused into an environment conductive for pedophiles to seek help and treatment before comm